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Front Row: Chinese American Designers
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) presents an exhibition that traces and celebrates the rise of Chinese American designers who decided to make their marks in New York.
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China
Eileen Otis presents a discussion of the relationship between China's economic growth and gender inequality.
Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village (1984) and Guomen (2003)
USCI presents a screening of Small Happiness (1984) and Guomen (2003). Q&A with director, Carma Hinton will follow.
Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China
Indiana University presents Professor Sara Friedman, speaking about her recently published edited volume, "Wives, Husbands, and Lovers", which examines how sexual relationships and marriage are understood and practiced in contemporary urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Amy Dooling: Translating Ding Ling: Gender and Canon Formation in Modern Chinese Literature
Professor Amy Dooling will speak at Boston University on the subject of author Ding Ling's impact in modern Chinese literature.
55 Days at Peking
Part of the series Power Moves: The Empress Dowager Onscreen
Is Feminism Translatable? Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu
The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosts Shu-Mei Shih.
Chinese Voices
An hour-long screening of video vignettes followed by a question and answer session with digital journalists.
Screening: One Child Nation
The USC U.S.-China Institute, Outside the Box [Office], and Amazon Studios invite you and a guest to attend a special advance screening of One Child Nation. Followed by a Q&A with Nanfu Wang, Clayton Dube, and Langou Lian.
Mou Yuandi and Female Impersonators in Chinese Opera
UCLA Confucius Institute hosts Shanghai artist Mou Yuandi, one of the last nandan in China, to speak of his life as a female impersonator and demonstrates his art of transformation.
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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?