General Highlights:

Gallery
Dunhuang：Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road ~ Closes October 6, 2013
Last chance! The Gallery's current exhibition, Dunhuang：Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road, closes on October 6, 2013.

Dunhuang, the western gateway to China, is one of the world's most esteemed art shrines and cultural heritage sites. Dunhuang addresses art and ritual practices of the Northern dynasties（420-589）and the Tang dynasty（618-907）. The exhibition features excavated art works, high relief clay figures, wooden sculpture, silk banners, and molded bricks. A group of treasured Buddhist sutras from the famous Cangjingdong （The Library Cave）illustrate the story behind Dunhuang's historic discovery. Magnificent replicas of a 6th-century central pillar and an 8th-century cave allow visitors to experience the actual cave setting. More...

Corporate
The 10th China Institute Executive Summit ~ November 8, 2013
Newly confirmed keynote speakers will include The Honorable CUI Tiankai, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the US（Opening Dinner, Nov. 7th）and Kin Moy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, US Department of State（Conference, Nov. 8th）.

Our 2013 Summit, entitled The Chinese Dream and the American Dream：Common Perspectives, Consumer Expectations, and Economic Outlook, will take place on November 8th in New York City. The opening dinner will be hosted at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on November 7th. Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, the Summit co-organizer, will bring a delegation of Chinese CEOs to attend the Summit. More...

Programs and Events
Author Talk - Educating Young Giants：What Kids Learn（And Don't Learn）in China and America with Dr. Nancy Pine ~ October 11, 2013
In Educating Young Giants, Dr. Nancy Pine carries readers into Chinese and American elementary and high school classrooms and highlights the big differences between schools in China and the United States. Drawing from her many experiences in schools in both countries and conversations with students, teachers, and parents, she shows how China and America need to extract themselves from outmoded practices and how they can implement practical solutions by drawing the best from both systems.

Using vignettes and comments from parents, students and teachers in each country as well as from her extensive research, Dr. Pine will discuss the education systems of these two countries, looking at our different styles of teaching, the way teachers are prepared and supported in the classroom, the influence of our histories, and the nature of assessments. This lecture will be of great interest to parents, educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in educational practices. More...

Renwen Society
20th Century China in the Eyes of Mo Yan and His Generation of Novelists ~ October 5, 2013
Winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo Yan is unique in the broad field of contemporary Chinese novelists. The sages of Stockholm credit his achievement to a “hallucinatory realism” that “merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” The view from China, however, can be somewhat different. Mo Yan’s intense interest in his roots—in 20th century Chinese history—is characteristic of a whole generation of writers：those old enough to claim personal knowledge of the Cultural Revolution, but too young to have experienced the “old society” before the reign of Mao Zedong. Their explorations of history and memory in long, epic novels, as pioneered by Mo Yan in the 1980s, differentiate these writers from both older and younger Chinese thinkers and writers.

Jeffrey C. Kinkley, a professor of history at St. John’s University in New York and a teacher and translator of modern Chinese literature and film, is known for his studies of the prewar author Shen Congwen, 20th century Chinese detective stories, fictional explorations of the legal process and official corruption, and other topics in the intellectual and literary history of 20th century China. His studies of China’s dystopian “new historical novels,” partly funded by a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, will be forthcoming in a book from Columbia University Press. More...

Lecture and Concert：Celebrating Renwen Society's 10th Anniversary ~ October 20, 2013
Since its founding in 2003, the Renwen Society at China Institute has held over 300 lectures by prominent American and Chinese speakers on various aspects of Chinese literature, art, language, history, philosophy, archaeology, theatre, cinema and music. To mark its 10th anniversary, Renwen will hold a special program on Sunday, October 20, 2013 from 2-6 pm at New York University.

The program will consist of two parts, a lecture by Professor Yu Qiuyu, one of the most renowned men of letters in contemporary China, and a concert of classical Chinese operatic and Western music vocal and instrumental recitals. The concert will feature some of the most famous performing and vocal artists in and out of China. More...

Special Events
SAVE THE DATE! Chinese New Year Party - "Year of the Horse" ~ February 7, 2014
Join us for our festive annual New Year’s party on Friday, February 7, 2014 at Cipriani 42nd Street to celebrate the “Year of the Horse” honoring Ming Cho Lee, recipient of the 2013 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement and China Institute’s first Blue Cloud Award recipient.  The celebration includes a reception and family style dinner, traditional lion dance, Shaolin Monk performance, silent auction and dancing. More...