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Culture
GTI Taiwan Culture Day
The Global Taiwan Institute is pleased to present “Taiwan Culture Day” in our ongoing series of social and cultural programs in Washington, DC. These series are partly sponsored by Spotlight Taiwan, a project of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture.
Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles
A film about a fisherman who vows to complete his estranged and dying son's documentary and his odyssey into the heart of China where he befriends a fatherless boy.
Embedded Feminist Agency: Wang Ping and Early Chinese Socialist Cinema
Lingzhen Wang will examine the first Chinese socialist female film director and her most representative film: The Story of Liubao Village (1956), re-theorizing female cinematic authorship
Julia White on Summer Trees Casting Shade: Chinese Painting at Berkeley
Exhibition curator Julia White offers insight into the formation and growth of BAMPFA’s outstanding Chinese painting collection over the last fifty years, touching on issues of provenance; how, when, and where the paintings were collected; and their importance to the history of Chinese painting at Berkeley.
State of the Word: Asian American Spoken-Word Artists
Join the Department of English and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity for an exhibition of Spoken Word.
The Year in U.S.-China Relations 2016: "It's Not Dark Yet..."
Please join the Kissinger Institute for its 4th annual review of the state of U.S.-China relations and a look at what 2017 might portend for US-China relations.
Quotations Songs: Portable Media and Pop Song Form in the Chinese 1960s
Professor Andrew Jones will speak on 1960s Chinese pop music at the University of Chicago.
Film Screening: “Summary of Crimes: A Documentary on Peasant Counter-Revolutionaries from the Cultural Revolution”
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a screening of Xu Xing's documentary, "Summary of Crimes: A Documentary on Peasant Counter-Revolutionaries from the Cultural Revolution.”
East Asian Garden Lecture Series - Explorations in the History of the Rose in China
Guoliang Wang, the author of Old Roses of China, surveys the development of the rose in China, from the Song dynasty (960–1279) to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and beyond.
What Makes a Chinese Garden Chinese?
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens presents a talk by Professor Charles Wu.
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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?