Tai Ming-Liang’s Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy Queer

NICHOLAS DE VILLIERS, (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA) WEDNESDAY MAY 4, 2022, 2-3:30 P.M. PDT SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR TAIWAN STUDIES Zoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83806164281?pwd-eURnNWcxOTFJUmœkSnNAS1RyTIcAUT09 Meeting ID: 838 0616 4281 Passcode: 337462 For more information, please contact: eastasian-taiwanstudies@usb.edu

Takashima Talks: The Democracy That Society Allows — Protest Sounds in Japan and the US

Takashima Talks: The Democracy That Society Allows -- Protest Sounds in Japan and the US Perceived attacks on the foundations of democracy in recent years have sparked large demonstrations, often numbering in the hundreds of thousands, in both Japan and the US. This paper will explore the ways in which democracy is sounded differently in […]

Is a Tekagami a Text? Reading the Fragmentary in a Calligraphy Album

Friday, May 6, HSSB Room 4080, 4 - 5:30 PM Join the Transregional East Asia RFG for a talk by Edward Kamens, Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University, and Paul I. Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations, UCLA. Sponsored by the IHC’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group, East Asia Center, and Department of East […]

The Utility of Oral Histories: The case of China

In a discussion for graduate students, Professor Pickowicz asks the questions, "What can be learned from oral histories that cannot be learned from other sources? What is unique about oral histories?" Pickowicz will show clips of several oral histories he filmed in China in the 1980s and 1990s and talk about both the pleasure and […]

Women in Chinese Silent Cinema

Women in Chinese Silent CinemaIn his lecture, Prof. Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s. He'll emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more […]