The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up: Translating Eco-Literature into Virtual Reality
Writer Wu Ming-yi and Filmmaker Singing Chen in Person!
Monday, March 9, 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
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OMG, it is officially called “Operation Epic Fury”!? That is literally what my son would have called an imaginary superhero battle royal when he was six years old. 🤦
Check out this great series of Chinese cinema at UCLA this winter: www.cinema.ucla.edu/series/echoe...
灣區的朋友，我明早北上參加BACCS Cinema主辦的灣區文化沙龍。這次畢贛導演也要過來，我們將討論他的電影生涯。
報名詳情請參考：
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An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie
Film Screening of Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis
Screening and discussion with film director Jiang Nengjie
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ucla Melnitz Hall Darren Star Theater
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Many thanks to Paul French for taking the time and care to review The Running Flame and Soft Burial by Fang Fang for the Mekong Review: mekongreview.com/silencing/
Protean Assemblages: The Literary Invention of Han Taiwanese Settlerhood in the Postwar Pacific
Yu-ting Huang, (East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University)
Thursday, November 20, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
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"The Question of Slavery under the Qin" & "Xiao as Moral Agency: Filial Daughters and Family in Late Imperial China"
Talks by Robin D.S. Yates & Grace Fong
Monday, November 17, 2025
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
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Going Vertical: The Vertical Short Revolution
Friday, November 14, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Main Conference Room (room 11360)
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What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why
Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University
Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
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11月14日 Lothar von Falkenhausen 罗泰教授专题演讲「Archaeological Perspectives on the Economic Transformation of China during the First Millennium BCE」
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11月13日：韩明士教授 Robert Hymes 教授（哥伦比亚大学）专题演讲「What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why」
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11月14日 「短剧的崛起：短剧论坛」Going Vertical: The Vertical Short Revolution
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UCLA中国研究中心本周的活动：
11月10日：陈利 （多伦多大学）专题演讲「Tracing Invisible Power and Technocratic Governance in Qing Archives」
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11月12日： Film Screening: BEHEMOTH with director Zhao Liang
纪录片《悲兮魔兽》放映以及 赵亮导演映后对谈
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11/10 @ UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium
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Today! The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
Friday, October 31, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
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Sammy Lee Lectures by Tristram R. Kidder, (Wash U, Saint Louis)
1) The Value of the Anthropocene Concept
10/31,
1-3PM Bunche 10383
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2) Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
11/1,
1- 3PM Fowler Lenart Auditorium
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Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China
Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.
10/30,
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
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Sammy Lee Lecture w/ Tristram R. Kidder (Wash U, Saint Louis).
The Value of the Anthropocene Concept
10/31;
1-3
Bunche Hall 10383
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Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
11/1;
1-3
Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium
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Goodreads “The Privileged” (by Wu Xiaole) e-book promotional giveaway
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FYI: Print copies of my book Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is now on sale for 50% at the Duke University Press website if you use the code: FALL25
Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium
www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
Friday, October 31, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China
by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
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If you are on campus at UCLA, this starts in a few minutes: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
This week at UCLA CCS:
"Transformation and Continuity of Confucianism:
A Case Study of Kang Youwei's Confucian Reform"
Lecture by Mimi Pi 皮迷迷, (associate professor, Capital Normal University in Beijing).
10/23/25,
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Haines Hall 118
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This week at UCLA CCS
A Buddha Descends
Thursday, 10/ 16, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Pacific Time)
Young Hall CS76
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Havana Divas - Film Screening and Discussion
Friday, October 17, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Kaplan A26
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The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
