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Confucianism in Everyday Life in Contemporary China Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 243 Royce Hall The revival of Confucianism in contemporary China has many dimensions, among which the political, the educational, the ritual, and the ethical are the most prominent. In this lecture Anna Sun focuses on the last two, the ritual and the ethical revival of Confucianism in everyday practice. The work is based on extensive field research in Confucius temples, as well as interviews with ordinary people in urban China. The conclusions drawn from this research bear witness to the resilience of Confucianism as a structuring power in the religious, social, and ethical imagination of Chinese society today. Anna Sun, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College, Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 2008.
Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters on the Internet Thursday, October 22, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Bunche Hall 10383 This study examines the dialect writing in Chinese characters on the Internet in contemporary China. Deviating from the standard writing of Chinese, the Internet-savvy youth transcribe their native dialects on an ad hoc basis, which celebrates multiplicity, creativity, individuality and resists uniformity, standardization, and institutionalization. Jin Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Literature and Culture from Cornell University.
My Dear & Displacement II Dance Performance Friday, October 23, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Glorya Kaufman Hall 200 Hsiao-Mei Ho is the artistic director of MeimageDance, She was formerly the Director of Taipei Crossover Dance Company, Rehearsal Director for Cloud Gate 2, and has guest choreographed Mirage and Paper Sky for the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. This year, she presented Camouflage, a repeat invitation from the National Theater and Concert Hall (NTCH), and toured this work to the Beijing Dance Festival. Cheng-Chieh Yu is the founder/director of Yu Dance Theater. She began her performance career touring with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, then danced and choreographed professionally in NYC from 1989 to 2001. She took on teaching position at UCLA and has since been based out of Los Angeles as a transnational dance artist since 2001. UCLA Center of Chinese Studies china@international.ucla.edu |
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