Calendar of Events
Results For 2011
Chinese Garden Lecture Series: Kun Opera: from Page to Stage
A lecture by ANDREA S. GOLDMAN, Assistant Professor of History at UCLA
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
7:30 PM
CANCELED US-China Economic Relations: 20th-Century Imbalances, 21st-Century Realities
At talk by Geoffrey Garrett (University of Sydney) at USC
Thursday, January 20, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Monks of Kublai Khan: The Mongols and the Church of the East
A Religions of the Silk Road lecture by Joel Walker, University of Washington
Friday, January 21, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Photography from New China
A exhibition of Chinese photographs since the reform period, at the Getty
Friday, January 21, 2011
Comparatizing Taiwan
International Conference on Taiwan
Friday, January 21, 2011
Results from the UCLA Field School at Yangguanzhai
A "Pizza Talk" at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
12:00 PM
China's Soft Power in the Making: Mega Events, Governance, and Peaceful Rise in Chinese Politics
Roundtable on China's Soft Power
Thursday, January 27, 2011
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Little Warphan Zhao: The Changing Face of Child Relief in Wartime China, 1937-1945
A mock job talk by Norman D. Apter, UCLA Department of History
Thursday, January 27, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
A Brighter Summer Day
by Edward Yang (1991), at Melnitz Movies
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Toward a Tripartitle Labor Relations System with Chinese Characteristics
A talk by QIAO JIAN (Chinese Institute of Industrial Relations)
Monday, February 07, 2011
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
China in the 21st Century: Legacies of the Past and Prospects for the Future
A talk by JEFFREY WASSERSTROM (History, UC Irvine), sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility--Los Angeles
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
6:30 PM
Through a Foreign Glass: The Art and Science of Photography in Late Qing China
A talk by Dr. FRANCES TERPAK, Curator of "Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China"
Opening February 8, 2011 at the Getty Center
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
China-Central Asia Relations and the Role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
A lecture by Prof. PAN Guang, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Friday, February 11, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CANCELLED: Reconstituting the Original Contexts of Some Kizil Mural Fragments in Overseas Collections: On the Iconography of Kucha Caves
ZHAO LI, Kucha Academy of Xinjiang
Thursday, February 17, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Is China Becoming a Mafia State?
A talk by JOHN GARNAUT (China correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Political Control, Cultural Interaction, and the Formation of a Unified Chinese Civilization in the Zhou Dynasty (1046-221 BC)
A talk by QIAN YIHUI (Department of Archaeology, Capital Normal University; and a Visiting Scholar with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies)
Thursday, February 24, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Warriors of Qiugang
Special screening of 2010 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short
Friday, February 25, 2011
5:30 PM
Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference- A Race for Growth: Leveraging Cross Border Opportunities
Brings together business leaders, professionals, and academics to discuss trends and challenges of the increasing role of Greater China in the global economy.
Friday, March 04, 2011
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Encountering Africa at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: Racial Attitudes of the Chinese in Guangzhou, China
A talk by MIN ZHOU (Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies)
Monday, March 07, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Winds, Dreams, Theater: An Archaeology of Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China
A talk by LING HON LAM (Vanderbilt University)
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: Tales from the New Chinese Cinema
Chinese film screenings, April 6 to 9
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Mary Pickford’s Chinese Fans: The Emergence of a Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture in 1920s Shanghai
A talk by NICOLAI VOLLAND (National University of Singapore)
Thursday, April 07, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center Annual Conference and Graduate Professional Development Workshop
A graduate student workshop in Chinese business and economic history
Saturday, April 09, 2011
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
“Transparent Shanghai”: Cinema, Architecture, and a Left-Wing Culture of Glass
A talk by WEIHONG BAO (Columbia University)
Thursday, April 14, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
China since the Global Crisis: Ascent Uninterrupted?
A colloquium with DAVID LAMPTON and VICTOR SHIH, co-sponsored by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
Monday, April 18, 2011
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
China in the Twenty-first Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
A talk by JEFFREY WASSERSTROM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
5:00 PM
Kinship and market integration among the ethnic Mosuo of Southwest China
A talk by SIOBHAN M. MATTISON (Stanford University Department of Anthropology and Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies)
Monday, May 02, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Writing Across Fences
A talk by LUNG YING-TAI 龍應台
Monday, May 02, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Cultures of China
A Talk by GE JIANXIONG 葛剑雄
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Exploring the Earliest "Central State" in China: Recent Archaeological Investigations in Taosi, Shanxi
A talk by HE NU (Visiting Scholar, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)
Thursday, May 05, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Developments in China's Underwater Archaeology
"Premodern China and the Maritime World: Current Developments in China's Underwater Archaeology"
Monday, September 19, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Why Taiwan Matters
From its successful economic and political development to its role as a "canary in the coalmine" of a rising PRC, Professor Shelley Rigger presents why Taiwan is an important global actor
Monday, September 26, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 25th Annual UCLA Study Abroad Fair. Each year, more than 2000 students visit the fair to learn about the wide variety of study abroad programs available.
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Writing Sex, Food, and Politics
Li Ang (李昂), a prominent Taiwanese writer, investigates gender and politics in social life and literary creation, opening up new spaces of critical reflection on the question of women in literary writing.
Friday, October 07, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
A Conversation with China Ambassador Wu Jianmin
UCLA faculty, students and the concerned public are welcome to a special discussion with Ambassador Wu Jianmin on a number of pressing issues, such as: changing US-China relations, challenges and opportunities in the Asia Pacific, and the impact of American politics on the world.
Friday, October 14, 2011
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
The Google China Standoff
Documentary Screening and discussion with Producer Zhu Ying, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Thursday, October 20, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Zhang Jizhong's "Journey to the West"
Screening of new 2011 episodes of acclaimed Chinese television serial.
Friday, October 21, 2011
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Media and Culture in Contemporary China
A two-day conference featuring Chinese Producer Zhang Jizhong, sponsored by the UCLA-USC Joint East Asian Studies Center and held on the UCLA and USC campuses
Friday, October 21, 2011
8:30 AM - 9:00 PM
Media and Culture in Contemporary China
A two-day conference featuring Chinese Producer Zhang Jizhong, sponsored by the UCLA-USC Joint East Asian Studies Center and held on the UCLA and USC campuses
Saturday, October 22, 2011
9:30 AM - 5:45 PM
Jonathan Hay "Maritime Beijing: Oceans and Empire in the Monuments of the Capital"
Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 05, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Leaving Children Behind: Migrating parents and their non-migrating children in urban China
Why are most children of migrant worker families left behind in the countryside while their parents seek urban employment?
Monday, November 21, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
CANCELLED - 2011 Chinese American Film Festival
Film screening of Dali: Love at First Sight
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
11:30 PM - 11:45 PM
Buddhism and Liao Dynasty Tombs at Xuanhua
Qingquan Li, Dean of the School of Art and the Humanities at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Visits to Los Angeles
Present by Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
Friday, December 09, 2011
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
