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Music
Music in the Chinese Garden - Meiye Ma on pipa
A different solo musician will perform each week inside the Love for the Lotus Pavilion, playing unamplified melodies on classical instruments including the dizi, sheng, pipa, erhu, and zheng.
Hammer Presents Performing the Silk Road with Chuen-Fung Wong
In this program, the musician and professor Chuen-Fung Wong brings the Silk Road to life via a performance of traditional Chinese chamber music and poetry, emphasizing the trade route and its representations as major inspirations for musical creativity and sonic possibility.
Awakenings - New Music Inspired by Buddhism
The Momenta Quartet performs contemporary works by Asian American composers, and a composition by John Cage, for a program inspired by Buddhist art and thought. This performance is a part of the "Locating the Sacred Festival."
Chinese Opera Film Series - Double Feature: Romance of the Western Chamber and Two Stars in the Milky Way with Live Accompaniment by Donald Sosin
The University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art, Film Studies Center, Department of Cinema and Media Studies presents this double feature with live accompaniment of Chinese Opera.
ChinaFile Presents: China's Economic Rise, Through the Eyes of Financial Times Correspondents
Asia Society presents a discussion of China's financial rise through the eyes of Financial Times correspondents.
Yage 雅歌: A Poetic Sense of China
CEAS at Yale hosts a special presentation by Tenor FAN JINGMA 范竞马 with The China Philharmonic String Quartet and Piano and Guest Soprano Erika Rauer
Asia Society Presents! Shanghai Quartet with Wu Man
In partnership with Da Camera of Houston, the Texas Center presents the renowned Shanghai Quartet and Musical America's 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year Wu Man.
Shredding for the Motherland: The Guitar in China
Stanford University's Center for East Asian Studies presents a talk by James A. Milward on the guitar's history in Chinese society.
Guru Drum Group
The Miller Outdoor Theatre hosts a performance by Shanghai-based Guru Drum Group.
Music in the Chinese Garden - Langchou Chu on guzheng
A different solo musician will perform each week inside the Love for the Lotus Pavilion, playing unamplified melodies on classical instruments including the dizi, sheng, pipa, erhu, and zheng.
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Featured Articles
January 4, 2024
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
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 4:00pm PST
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 4:00pm
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?