Category: Events

APSI Speaker series:  Janet Chen Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University Learning to Speak “Mandarin“ in China: 1913-1935 Wednesday, October 14       4:30 pm Rubenstein Library 249, Carpenter Conference Room, Duke West Campus

Duke APSI Event CINE-EAST FILM SERIES: A TRIBUTE TO VIDEO ARTIST SHIGEKO KUBOTA (1937-2015) A Selection of Shigeko Kubota’s Work Wednesday, October 7       7:00 pm Richard White Lecture Hall, Duke East Campus

Maliya (Mariatu Kargbo)’s “Marry to Chinese”: “Blackness” Encountering “Chineseness” in 21st Century China Su Zheng, Associate Professor of Music and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University Thursday, October 1      3:00 pm Rubenstein Library 249, Carpenter Conference Room, Duke West … Read more

Duke APSI Event Cine-East Film Series: Poetry Directed by Chang-dong Lee 이창동, 2010 Tuesday, September 15 7:00 pm Richard White Lecture Hall , Duke East Campus A sixty-something woman, faced with a crippling medical diagnosis and the discovery of a heinous … Read more

Japanese choreographer/director/designer Ushio Amagatsu and his company Sankai Juku are revered around the world for their contemporary butoh creations—sublime dance-theater experiences steeped in elegance, technical precision and emotional depth. Influenced by French surrealist theater, German expressionist dance and Japanese forms … Read more

Xu Xing is a 2008 Feuchtwanger Fellow and has won international acclaim for his work on Shengxia De Dou Shuyu Ni (Whatever’s Left Is Yours). This screening will feature Xing’s most recently completed film entitled A Chronicle of My Cultural … Read more

Duke University and the Carolina Asia Center present 70 Years After Hiroshima, an exhibit by UNC-Chapel Hill Distinguished Term Professor in Art elin o’Hara slavick. From Sept. 22 to Oct. 22, 2015, this exhibit will be on display in the … Read more

Heidi Kim, Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature at UNC, will be at Bull’s Head Bookshop on Wednesday, October 7th at 3:30pm to share from her new book Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story, with a … Read more

Chinese cities are growing at a rate that is unprecedented in human history. The nation scrapped a Soviet-style economy for a market-based and city-based strategy that resulted in 390 million people moving from rural areas into cities during an economic … Read more

The Carolina Asia Center presents the regional premiere of HIDDEN LEGACY: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the World War II Internment Camps, directed by Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto-Wong. “Hidden Legacy fills an enormous vacuum in our understanding of cultural practices among … Read more