Year of China Film Series: Dreams of Tibet

Year of China Film Series: Dreams of Tibet

This one-hour documentary is a part of the PBS series FRONTLINE which examines the United States’ fascination with Tibet. It explores Tibetan Buddhism while providing a brief survey of Tibetan history. This is a film being shown as a apart of Year of China: awaken the past, discover the future.

Tuesday, March 20

6-7:40pm

Whitehall Clasroom Building room 118

Date:
Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building room 118
Tags/Keywords:

Year of China Lecture Series: Chinese Musical Instruments: Then and Now - Dr. Kuo-Huang Han

Year of China Lecture Series: Chinese Musical Instruments: Then and Now

A lecture and demonstration

 

Dr. Kuo-Huang Han, Emeritus Professor, Northern Illinois University, and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Kentucky

 

3:30pm

Friday, March 30, 2012

Niles Gallery, Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library

 

Sponsored by: UK Libraries, UK School of Music: Musicology and Ethnomusicology Division, UK College of Fine Arts and the University of Kentucky Confucius Institute

Date:
Location:
Niles Gallery, Lucille Caudill Little, Fine Arts Library

Year of China Lecture Series: The Increasing Role of China in Global Food Security - Shenggen Fan

Year of China Lecture Series: The Increasing Role of China in Global Food Security

Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute

 

Monday, March 26, 2012

6:00 - 7:30pm

Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Date:
Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Lecture Series: When is the Postcolonial Imperial? - Shu-mei Shih

Year of China Lecture Series: When is the Postcolonial Imperial? Chinese Intellectuals and the Tibet Question

Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures & Asian American Studies, UCLA

6:00 - 7:40pm, Thursday March 22

Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Date:
Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Film Series - Autumn Gem (秋瑾)

 

April 10, 2012 - 6:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118

Autumn Gem (秋瑾)http://autumn-gem.com/ Autumn Gem is a documentary about China’s first feminist, Qiujin. Qiujin (1875-1907) defied tradition to become the leader of a revolutionary army. She was the first woman to lead an armed uprising against the Qing dynasty government, for which she was arrested and executed. Autumn Gem was released in 2009.

Date:
-
Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Ernie Yanarella & Richard Levine, Year of China Lecture Series

 

Year of China Lecture Series, featuring:

Ernie Yanarella - Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science

Richard Levine - Emeritus Professor, Architecture

A Tale of Two Projects: Hangbaiyu and SUCCESS

April 5, 2012

Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

6:00-7:40pm

Free and open to the public

Date:
-
Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Demolition (拆迁 ) & discussion with the director

 

April 3, 2012 - 6:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118

Demolition(拆迁 ) & discussion with the director

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009mayjun/sniadecki.html

Demolition explores the impacts of migrant labor and the urban experience by focusing on the city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Director J.P. Sniadecki examines the interactions between the members of China’s floating population of migrant workers and the residents of Chengdu as well as the booming construction industry in China.

Date:
-
Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Subscribe to