Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Hong Kong and Macau
Hong Kong Cinema Festival
The San Francisco Film Society hosts a weekend of new films from Hong Kong
Family Inc.
When filmmaker Emily Ting was asked by her father to return to Asia and take over the family business, she didn't exactly know how to say ‘no.' Promising herself she would try it out for just one year, she traded in her friends, her filmmaking pursuits, and her love of New York for a grueling new life as CEO in training in one of Hong Kong's most notorious toy companies.
Raise the Umbrellas: Special Preview with Director Evans Chan
The Yale Center for East Asian Studies will host a screening of the documentary "Raise the Umbrellas", about the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement.
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
The Carnegie Hall presents the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
Fire of Conscience
Part of the series Sixteenth Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival
Screening: Roulette City
USC Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures presents "Roulette City", a film about a boy named Tak who goes to Macau and learns about luck, loyalty, and love. The screening will be followed by a talk with writer/director Thomas Lim.
Films of Fury Seminar: Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema in the 1950's and 60's
Professor David Desser will give a talk on Hong Kong's force in international cinema.
Asian World Film Festival
The Asian World Film Festival highlights foreign language films that have been officially submitted to the Academy as their country’s Oscar® hopeful and those submitted as a Golden Globe hopeful to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Luncheon with The Honorable Rita Lau, JP, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Hong Kong
Hong Kong's new Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Rita Lau, will give an economic and business update on Hong Kong at a luncheon.
Asian Pop Spectacle & New Political Space: HOCC (何韻詩) Live - A Presentation and Conversation
Denise Ho (HOCC), Canto-pop diva, actress, LGBT activists, and icon of political defiance will show past video footage and a DVD of her concert "Dear Friend."
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Featured Articles
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?