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Talking Points, October 11, 2007
October 11 - October 24, 2007
10/11/2007: China – Fragile Superpower
USC University Club
Address: Banquet Room, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Cost: Free
Time: 3:00PM - 5:00PM
UCSD political scientist and USC U.S.-China Institute Board of Scholars member Susan L. Shirk will speak on US-China relations.
10/19/2007: Irv Drasnin: Documenting China
USC Taper Hunanities Hall (THH) 202
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Cost: Free
Phone: 213-821-4382
Time: 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Irv Drasnin will screen parts of his films and discuss the challenges of working in China.
California Events
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre (In Walt Disney Concernt Hall)
Address: 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Cost: See website for details
Time: 8:00PM - 11:00PM
Part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series - New Chinese Cinema: The Unofficial Stories of Tang Tang, Fourth Child, Little Moth and Others.
10/12/2007: China's Information Revolution
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Cost: Free
Time: 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Xiao Qiang examines media technologies and its impact on the Chinese political system.
10/12/2007: The Rise of Manchu Power in Northeast Asia (c. 1600-1636): Local and Global Dimensions
IEAS Conference Room
Address: 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley, CA
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Nicola Di Cosmo explores the rise of Manchurian power in seventeeth century China.
10/12/2007 - 10/13/2007: Annual Meeting, American Oriental Society, Western Branch
UC Irvine
Address: 135 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA
Time: 9:00AM - 9:00PM
A two-day conference at UC Irvine.
10/14/2007: The Magic of Chinese Animation
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Rim Archive
Address: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2625 Durant Avenue #2250 , Berkeley, CA 94720-2250
Cost: $4.50-9.50
Time: 2:00PM - 4:00PM
This film screening includes a selection of classics of Chinese animation, drawing on a variety of styles and techniques.
10/17/2007: Antiquities & Archaeology in the Three Gorges Area
UCLA
11377 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Professor Sun Hua analyzes the economic and environmental impacts that the famous Three Gorges area of Sichuan has on the region.
10/17/2007: Curatorial Urbanism
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Address: 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Cost: Free
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Qingyun Ma is Dean of the USC School of Architecture and holder of the Della and Harry MacDonald Dean's Chair in Architecture.
10/19/2007: Mei Lanfang, Peking Opera, and the Chinese Aesthetic
IEAS Conference Room
Address: 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley, CA
Time: 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Joshua Goldstein, Zhang Dandan, and Ban Wang examine the themes of 20th century Peking Opera with special emphasis on Mei Lanfang.
North America Events
10/22/2007: Hong Kong on the Move: American and Hong Kong Perspectives on the First Ten Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, DC
Cost: Free
Time: 8:30AM - 5:30PM
A discussion about Hong Kong's first ten years as a Special Administrative Region with both American and Hong Kong experts.
Exhibitions:
09/17/2007 - 12/21/2007: Forces: Paintings & Calligraphy
IEAS Conference Room
2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720-2318
Cost: Free
The UCB Center for Chinese Studies presents an exhibition by Lampo Leong.
09/06/2007 - 01/20/2008: Zhang Huan: Altered States
2nd Floor Starr & Ross Galleries
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave, New York, NY
Phone: 212-517-ASIA
This exhibition is the first ever museum retrospective of Zhang Huan, encompassing major works produced over the past 15 years in Beijing, New York, and Shanghai.
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