Calendar of Events
Results For 2008
Images of War: Picturing the Taiping Occupation of Jiangnan, 1860-84
A talk by Tobie Meyer-Fong (Johns Hopkins University)
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Hood, Veil, Shoes: A Dance Work by Cheng-chieh Yu
Performed by the Sun-Shier Dance Theater (Taiwan)
Friday, January 18, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Taiwan's Civil Society and the Blue-Green Deadlock, 1986-2007
A talk by Wu Jieh-min in the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series
Thursday, January 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution & Pitfalls of Reform
A talk by Mark Selden
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, January 31, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 07, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Communication Networks among the Chinese Knowledge Diaspora
A talk by Anthony Welch
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Land Rights and Chinese Development in the Long Run
A talk by Kenneth Pomeranz (UC Irvine), in the Von Gremp Workshop in Economic & Entrepreneurial History
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 21, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference
Engine for Growth: The China / California Connection
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:45 AM - 6:00 PM
China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Culture
A talk by Wang Haicheng
Thursday, March 06, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, March 06, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Missing Ear in Taiwan Literature
A talk Jing Tsu (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Fighting for the Seats: Gender Quotas and State Feminism in South Korea and Taiwan
By Professor Chang-Ling Huang, National Taiwan University/Korea Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The Eye Having to Have Looked at Enough Examples to Really See . . .
A talk by Ni Yibin
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Rise of Guanxi in China's Transitional Economy
A talk by Yanjie Bian
Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
A Chinese Ghost Story
Chinese Student Association presents The 3rd Annual Heritage Night
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Super, Girls!
Screening of a documentary on the dreams & disappointments of the young women who participated in the megahit "Super Girl Singing Contest" -- and a audience discussion with Jian Yi, the filmmaker
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
POSTPONED -- Vilifying Virtue: The Good Samaritan's New Trouble in China and Its Moral Implications
POSTPONED
Thursday, April 17, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
New Movements from China: Contemporary Art Turns Official
A talk by Meiqin Wang (Cal State Northridge)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
'Prepare for War': Civil Defense, Population Dispersal, and Tianjin's Cultural Revolution
A talk by Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University)
Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Rising Tide
A documentary on some of China's most talented emerging artists, including photographers and video artists: Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Chen Qiulin, Yang Yong, Wang Qingsong, and Zhang O
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Jiang Wenye's Music and Poetry
A talk by David Der-wei Wang, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Ancient Chinese Skies: Astronomical Expertise in Premodern China
Morning session: A workshop for graduate students; Afternoon session: A public colloquium
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice in China
A two-day international conference on social change in China
Friday, May 02, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice in China
A two-day international conference on social change in China
Saturday, May 03, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Cultural Development during the Han Dynasty & Early Chinese Drama
A talk by Yao Xiao'ou (Communication University of China)
Thursday, May 08, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
What Is Sinophone Studies?
A colloquium
Friday, May 16, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Beijing Opera Comes to UCLA
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Monday, May 19, 2008
Time to be announced.
Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art
A talk by Rebecca Morse (Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
China Undisciplined, Day One
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference celebrating the creative spaces that arise in the (de)construction of "China", May 30-31, 2008.
Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00 PM - 7:30 PM
China Undisciplined, Day Two
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference celebrating the creative spaces that arise in the (de)construction of "China", May 30-31, 2008.
Friday, May 30, 2008
8:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Yellow Dust Blows East: Contemporary South Korean Images of China
By Stephen Epstein, Director of the Asian Studies Institute and the Asian Studies Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand/Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, June 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Confucianism in Modern Chinese Culture with Yu Dan
A Talk by Yu Dan
Thursday, July 31, 2008
4:00 PM
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor
Exhibit on the Terra Cotta Warriors at the Bowers Museum from May 18, 2008 - October 16, 2008.
Monday, September 29, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
An Exhibition of the Work of Sun Xun
at the Hammer Museum, through October 12
Thursday, October 02, 2008
UCLA International Institute Open House
in association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars & the Office of International Education
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Space, Aesthetics, Performance: Reflections on the Western Zhou Ancestral Sacrifice
A talk by Martin Kern (Princeton University)
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Mei Lanfang Beijing Opera Company
Lecture and Demonstration
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
On the Study of Literature in China Today
A Colloquium with Scholars from Shanghai-area Universities
Monday, October 20, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Geometry vs. Algebra:Model-less Planetary Theory of the East
Prof. Nakayama discusses a hitherto unresolved problem in understanding early Chinese mathematics: the meaning of limit, mean, and true degrees in the Shoushi Ii planetary tables and subsequent commentaries. He explains prior problems in resolving this problem and his new solution. He argues for the incomensurability between the Western geometrical model and the Chinese algebraic approach. He concludes with comments upon contemporary historiography of mathematics and science.
Monday, October 20, 2008
4:00 PM
Pathways towards a New World Order: China's Challenge to the European Union
A talk by John Friedmann (Visiting Professor of Urban Planning), in the Harvey S. Perloff Lecture Series, presented by the Department of Urban Planning
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2008 US-China Business Law Conference at UCLA
Friday, October 24, 2008
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Workshop on Print in a Global Context: Japan and the World
A day-long conference presented by the The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute -- with several presentations about China
Friday, October 24, 2008
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Burning the Books and Killing the Scholars: Representing the Atrocities of the First Emperor of China
Anthony Barbieri-Low delivers the 21st Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 01, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Red Art . . . a Documentary
A screening and talk with the co-director, Hu Jie
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Female Meditation Techniques in Late Imperial and Modern China
A two-day conference
Saturday, November 08, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Female Meditation Techniques in Late Imperial and Modern China
A two-day conference
Sunday, November 09, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
How to Search the UCLA Library Catalog for C-J-K Materials
A hands-on seminar
Thursday, November 13, 2008
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Erlitou: A Key to the Origin of Chinese Civilization
A talk by XU HONG (head of the Erlitou Excavation Team of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), cosponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Discussant: Min Li (UCLA Dept of Asian Languages & Cultures, and Cotsen Institute)
Thursday, November 13, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
What is Laozi's Ziran? Ancient Texts and Modern Implications
A talk by Liu Xiaogan
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Transporting the Elixir: A Look at Tibetan Medicine Inside Tibet
A talk by Lhusham Gya (Associate Professor of Tibetan Medicine, Qinghai University)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
How to Search the UCLA Library Catalog for C-J-K Materials
A hands-on seminar
Friday, November 21, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Recent Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art
This symposium is intended to survey some of the most important recent developments in the study of Buddhist art throughout Asia.
Friday, November 21, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
China's New Past: Archaeology, Early History, New Visions
A seminar by David Schaberg, in conjunction with the exhibition East Asian Archaeology & Classic Architecture
Saturday, November 22, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Private Enforcement of the Public Interest in China: Potential and Pitfalls
A talk by Donald C. Clarke
Monday, November 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bronze Age Qufu: The Hometown of Confucius in the Archaeological Perspective
A talk by Professor Xu Hong, distinguished archaeologist from the Institute of Archaelogy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Thursday, December 04, 2008
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
