FILM SCREENING Australia’s Silent Film Festival 2014 26 July 2014 Director: Wancang Bu Starring: Ling Yu Ruan and Yan Jin Duration: 94 mins Accompanist: John D’Arcy Originally titled Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood, this outstanding Chinese silent film represents…
BOOK LAUNCH 6pm – 8pm, 22 July 2014 The Glover Cottages, 124 Kent Street, Millers Point 2000 Professor Kerry Brown reveals the rise of a new generation of powerful princelings in China. How does one become the leader of the…
SYMPOSIUM Bursaries available for doctoral students/early career researchers University of Queensland 18-20 July 2014 A symposium on the topic ‘The Making and Remaking of China’s “Red Classics”: Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture in Literary Icons of Socialism and their Contemporary…
BOOK LAUNCH Launched by: The Hon Bob Hawke AC, former Prime Minister of Australia Great Hall, University House, Balmain Crescent, ANU 5:30pm to 7:00pm, Thursday, 19 June 2014 Professor Harris has been a highly distinguished participant in Australian public and…
CONFERENCE 2014 Chinese Studies Research Day 14 November 2014, University of Melbourne Organised by the Chinese Studies Research Group at the University of Melbourne Sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, the University of Melbourne Research Day Aims: –…
BOOK LAUNCH 15 June 2014 This event is presented by China Studies Centre, Department of Chinese Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, and gleebooks. To be launched by Mabel Lee. When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin…
MEDIA INTERVIEW From ABC: Professor Geremie Barmé from the ANU Centre on China in the World says Tiananmen Square came at the end of a growing call for democratic reform but was no different to how the Chinese government had…
PUBLIC LECTURE Her Excellency Ms Frances Adamson 6:00pm – 7:30pm, 16 Jun 2014 The Auditorium, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU The Australian Centre on China in the World and the Australian Institute of International Affairs warmly…
CONFERENCE 2 July 2014 Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Late last year China made key reform decisions that will impact New Zealand’s economic, political and business dealings with its largest trade partner. Learn how these changes could impact you…
FILM SCREENING 6-9 pm, Thursday, 5 June 2014 Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 16–20 Goodhope Street, Paddington, Sydney Documentary Australia Foundation warmly invites you to a fundraising screening for DAF of the award-winning documentary AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY by filmmaker Alison…