Calendar of Events
Results For 2012
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 1)
An International Symposium Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies (Jan 6th - 7th, 2012)
Friday, January 06, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 2)
An International Symposium
Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies
(Jan 6-7, 2012)
Saturday, January 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Publication in Area Studies: An Informal Talk with Editor of The China Quarterly (2002-2011)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Info Session on Summer Travel Study in China
Please join us for the information session on Summer Travel Study in China.
Monday, January 30, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/ Postmodernism
Waiting for a Native Theory?: Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/Postmodernism
Monday, February 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980 - 2000
In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger (UC Irvine) examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Documentary Films from Taiwan
You are invited to screenings of two Taiwanese documentary films.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese Approaches and Insights
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Nixon in China: A Legacy Revisited - FULL CONFERENCE MULTIMEDIA COVERAGE NOW AVAILABLE!!
A conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing and Shanghai and his meetings with Chairman Mao
Thursday, February 23, 2012
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
China: Capitalist Development and Popular Resistance
The colloquium will examine the roots of popular resistance in contemporary China, and consider the way in which it is affecting capitalist development and the political system.
Monday, February 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The New People in the People’s Republic: Protesters in Housing Disputes in Urban China, 1980-2010
In this project, Professor Qin Shao examines urban protestors and their evolving identities by exploring what was demolished in old neighborhoods and what, besides highrises, has risen in their ruins.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
China and the U.S. West Coast: Golden Business Opportunities
Chairman Wei Jiafu lays out a "roadmap" for capitalizing on the golden opportunities of doing business in China and attracting investment from China to the West Coast, offering valuable insights into what makes business work in China and how the West can take advantage of the expanding markets and investment opportunities both there and in the U.S.
Monday, March 05, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
LA Premiere: LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, 2011)
Thursday, March 08, 2012
7:30 PM
A Discussion with Ambassador Ma on China's Development and Sino-U.S. Relations
Ambassador Ma Zhengang will briefly introduce China’s development goals and discuss current important issues in China’s foreign policies, particularly those related to Asia and Sino-US relations. Ambassador Ma’s speech will be followed by a Q & A session.
Monday, April 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Designated Drivers: State Capitalism in China’s Auto Industry
Are the Chinese breaking the rules of capitalism, or are they re-writing them?
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Using Films in Chinese Language Teaching
Saturday, April 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Potential Institutional Change in China
Dr. Yeliang Xia, Professor of Economics at Peking University and visiting professor at UCLA, examines the crises and challenges facing China.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Numata Colloquium Series Talk by James Benn
“Problems in the Study of Later Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha," a talk by Prof. James Benn (McMaster University)
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
China: From the 1950s to Today
A photo exhibit of 130 pictures that document the changing lives of ordinary Chinese people in the last six decades.
Monday, April 16, 2012
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
The Challenge of Covering a Fast-Changing China
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Emerging Cultural and Creative Industries in the Greater China Economy: The Cross-strait Co-opetitive Strategy
Thursday, April 19, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Internet and Social Mobilization in China
Monday, April 23, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
West Coast Premiere Film Screening - Old Dog
Friday, May 11, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference Day 1
The Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Studies
Friday, May 18, 2012
12:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Department of Ethnomusicology: Music of China Spring Concert
Start of the 2012 Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Friday, May 18, 2012
8:15 PM - 9:30 PM
China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference Day 2
The Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Studies
Saturday, May 19, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Chinese independent film screening - No.89 Shimen Road
TFT student group ELEVATE will screen Chinese independent film No. 89 Shimen Road with a post-screening Q&A with director Shu Haolun.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
An Unforgettable History of World War II: the Tokyo Trials
A talk on the 1946 Tokyo Trials by Professor Xiang Longwan, Director of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Tokyo Trial Research Center, and son of one of the eleven original trial prosecutors.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
International Institute IDP Open House & Fall Reception-Part of 'Welcome Week'!
As part of the campus-wide 'True Bruin Welcome Week' activities, the International Institute Interdepartmental Programs (IDPs) will be hosting an Open House & Fall Reception, to which you are cordially invited.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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COB: THE RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN (1970) (银幕中国双年展: 红色娘子军)
A Film Screening and Post-screening panel discussion moderated by UCLA professor Robert Chi; with Beijing opera master and former yangbanxi performer Qi Shufang; theater director Peter Sellars; and Director of UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies Yan Yunxiang.
Friday, October 19, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
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Low Carbon Development in China: Fitting Global Climate Norms to National Policymaking Institutions
A talk by Eric Zusman, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), on climate change reform policy efforts in China.
Monday, October 22, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Impact of the I Ching on Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay
The I Ching, or the Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese text––perhaps the first written document in human history––and was originally used exclusively as an oracle. Three thousand years old, the I Ching is one of the most revered books in Chinese literature, and it has inspired the most eminent Chinese scholars throughout history.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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詠劇詩歌：明清戲曲接受史的生動記錄 (Poetry in Praise of Drama: A Vivid Record of the History of Reception of Ming and Qing Drama)
A talk in Mandarin by Professor Zhao Shanlin, East China Normal University, on the reception of Ming and Qing drama.
Friday, October 26, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Painted Skin: The Resurrection (画皮II) Halloween Screening
Los Angeles Premiere / Halloween Screening!
PAINTED SKIN: THE RESURRECTION 2012
(画皮II)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
2012 Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, and a Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will give the 25th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Urbanization in Between: Theorizing Urbanization in Rapidly Industrializing China
Presented by Dr. Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
New Findings on the Monochord and Non-mathematical Methods of Constructing the 12-Lülü Chromatic Scale in Ancient China
Lecture by Guangming Li
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 1)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 2)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Thursday, November 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Taiwan Since Martial Law
Book talk by David Blundell, National Chengchi University
Monday, December 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
