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Frank Dikotter, Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong - "The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957"

- | Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library 2nd Floor

In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing’s Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every…




Rights Litigation, Law and Political Reform in China Conference

- | Penn Law School, Fitts Auditorium (Golkin 100)

Registration: https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/events/46833-rights-litigation-law-and-po...

China's "rights…




Jong Chol An, Research Fellow at the East Rock Institute - "Contested Memory of Imperial Korea: The Post-1945 Controversy over Royal Properties in South Korea"

- | Stiteler Hall B21

* James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, Korea Current Affairs Forum

Michelle Breslauer, Institute for Economics and Peace - "Measuring Social & Economic Factors that Develop a More Peaceful Society"

- | McNeil Building Room 286-7, 3718 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania

Michelle Breslauer of the Institute for Economics and Peace will return to Philly to share the Global Peace Index and other tools used to measure peace. Learn about relationship between peace, business and prosperity…




"Educational Issues for Minority Populations In Western China," Delegation visit, Dean Sude and Professor Teng Xing, Minzu University

- | CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345

12:00-1:00pm: "Research on Educational Policies for Ethnic Minorities with Cultural Sensitivity----Cases from Ethnic Minority Areas in Western China."

Speaker: Professor Sude, Professor and Dean of the School…




CSCC Annual Conference - “China’s Challenges: The Road Ahead”

- | Penn Law School, Silverman 245, Levy Conference Room

Penn Law School, Silverman 245, Levy Conference Room

 Twelve experts on political, social, economic, and legal developments in contemporary China and its role in the world present papers examining key…




Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, "Saving Face" Film Screening, followed by Q&A and Panel

- | Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Reception to follow, Cafe 58, Irvine Auditorium)

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker. Her recent films include SAVING FACE, TRANSGENDERS: PAKISTAN’S OPEN SECRET AND PAKISTAN’S TALIBAN GENERATION,…




Aihe Wang, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Associate Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong - "Other Modernism, Other Communities: Underground Art During Mao’s Cultural Revolution"

- | Williams Hall 844

This talk examines underground art and art communities during China’s Cultural Revolution. Centered on the Wuming (No Name) painting group active in the 1970s, it examines the interconnections between such…




The Secret World of Arrietty - Film Screening (shown in Japanese, with English subtitles)

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Residing quietly beneath the floorboards are little people who live undetected in a secret world to be discovered, where the smallest may stand tallest of all. From the legendary Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away,…




Charlotte Eubanks, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese, Penn State University - "Sympathetic Response: Vocal Arts and the Erotics of Persuasion in the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan"

- | Stiteler B21

One of the major scholarly arguments in Japanese studies has been the idea that many late medieval and early modern Japanese performance genres were deeply influenced by forms of Buddhist oratory. A potential point…