Events

Ongoing Events:

Berkeley Art Museum: "Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection"
IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley: "History Recycled: Photographs of Architectural Design by Deng Kunyan"

October 2008

"Platform"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Wednesday, October 15, 2008
TIME:	7:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Recycling Shanghai’s Industrial Heritage"

Deng Kunyan, Architect

DATE:	Thursday, October 16, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Global Metropolitan Studies

"China Transformed: Artscape/Cityscape"

DATE:	Friday, October 17, 2008 Saturday, October 18, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Division of Arts and Humanities, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History of Art, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

"Forbidden City, U.S.A. (美国紫禁城)"

Admission: $5 public; $3 member

DATE:	Friday, October 17, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	Chinese Culture Center, Hilton Hotel (3rd Floor), 750 Kearny Street, San Francisco, 94108
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Chinese Culture Center SF

"Still Life"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Friday, October 17, 2008
TIME:	8:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"For Fun"

with director Ning Ying in-person

DATE:	Thursday, October 23, 2008
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"The Emergence of New Media in Premodern China"

DATE:	Friday, October 24, 2008
TIME:	1:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Sproul Room, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue
FORMAT:	Luce “New Media in China” Colloquia Series
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Luce Foundation

"On the Beat"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Friday, October 24, 2008
TIME:	8:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"I Love Beijing"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Saturday, October 25, 2008
TIME:	6:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Railroad of Hope" Preceded by shorts: "In Our Own Words" and "Looking for a Job in the City"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Sunday, October 26, 2008
TIME:	1:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Perpetual Motion"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Sunday, October 26, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Master Class with Ning Ying"

Ning Ying, Director & Pacific Film Archive Artist in Residence

DATE:	Monday, October 27, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Master class
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive, Center for Asian American Media, Consortium for the Arts

"Book Talk: Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line"

Michael Szonyi, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University

DATE:	Wednesday, October 29, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

November 2008

"The View from the Riverbank: Pluralization without Democratization in China’s Rural West"

Kristen McDonald, Director, China Rivers Project

DATE:	Wednesday, November 5, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Special Problems in Teaching Chinese Grammar: 汉语语法教学中的特殊问题"

Li Xiaoqi (李晓琪), Director, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University (对外汉语教育学院院长)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 5, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	33 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, National Center for K-16 Chinese Language Pedagogy

"Revalorizing Gendered Self-Worth in China’s New Age of Private Property"

Li Zhang, Chancellor's Fellow & Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis

DATE:	Friday, November 7, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Image of China in the American Classroom"

Ban Wang, Professor, Asian Languages and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

DATE:	Wednesday, November 12, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"What is Laozi's Ziran (naturalness): from Ancient text to Modern Implication"

Xiaogan Liu, Professor, Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong

DATE:	Friday, November 14, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Patterns of Interaction in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Painting"

James Cahill, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus

DATE:	Wednesday, November 19, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	History of Art, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"The State of the Chinese Lexicon in the Recent Era: 新时期的汉语词汇状况"

Shi Dingguo (石定果), Professor , Humanities Institute, Beijing Languages University (北京语言大学人文学院教授)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 19, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	33 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, National Center for K-16 Chinese Language Pedagogy

"Inside/Outside: The Great Wall of China"

Peter Hessler, Author
David Spindler, Historian
Museum Admission $3-$8. Programs free with museum admission.

DATE:	Sunday, November 23, 2008
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Art Museum

December 2008

"New Media and the Documentary Impulse"

DATE:	Friday, December 5, 2008
TIME:	1:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Sproul Room, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue
FORMAT:	Luce “New Media in China” Colloquia Series
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Luce Foundation