Will the Real Jia Zhangke Please Stand Up? | Los Angeles Review of Books Jia Zhangke’s foray into AI filmmaking says a lot about the state of the industry in both China and the United States.

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Will the Real Jia Zhangke Please Stand Up? | Los Angeles Review of Books Jia Zhangke’s foray into AI filmmaking says a lot about the state of the industry in both China and the United States.

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“Will the Real Jia Zhangke Please
Stand Up?” Los Angeles Review of Books (link in comments)

UCLA CCS this week:

Shoufu Yin, (UBC): "The Unhistoriable"

Ji Li, (UC, Irvine): "Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System"

Ya-Wen Lei, (Harvard):"Reconfiguring Gendered Labor Regimes"

Qiang Fu, (UBC): "Judicial Territoriality"

See: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/events

Shortlist: 2025 Literature Award | China Books Review Presenting the jury’s shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Literature from or on China or the Sinophone World.

Thanks to China Books Review, Asia Society and all the judges for shortlisting Fang Fang's The Running Flame and Soft Burial for the Baifang Schell Book Prize. It is an honor to be recognized alongside the other authors and translators.

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Trump’s new Truth social profile picture (left) and “Nuke”, (right) a violent, psychoathic and delisional Marvel comics villain from the 1980s who believes he is still at war even though it has long ended.

The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up: Translating Eco-Literature into Virtual Reality A talk about VR film "The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters" by Wu Ming-Yi (Writer) and Singing Chen (Director).

The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up: Translating Eco-Literature into Virtual Reality
Writer Wu Ming-yi and Filmmaker Singing Chen in Person!
Monday, March 9, 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383

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OMG, it is officially called “Operation Epic Fury”!? That is literally what my son would have called an imaginary superhero battle royal when he was six years old. 🤦

Check out this great series of Chinese cinema at UCLA this winter: www.cinema.ucla.edu/series/echoe...

灣區的朋友，我明早北上參加BACCS Cinema主辦的灣區文化沙龍。這次畢贛導演也要過來，我們將討論他的電影生涯。

報名詳情請參考：
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An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie
Film Screening of Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis
Screening and discussion with film director Jiang Nengjie
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ucla Melnitz Hall Darren Star Theater

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Silencing - Mekong Review For English language readers outside China, these translations of The Running Flame and Soft Burial help to reframe Fang Fang as a writer of more than Wuhan Diary.

Many thanks to Paul French for taking the time and care to review The Running Flame and Soft Burial by Fang Fang for the Mekong Review: mekongreview.com/silencing/

Protean Assemblages: The Literary Invention of Han Taiwanese Settlerhood in the Postwar Pacific
Yu-ting Huang, (East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University)
Thursday, November 20, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
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Protean Assemblages: The Literary Invention of Han Taiwanese Settlerhood in the Postwar Pacific Talk by Yu-ting Huang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University.

"The Question of Slavery under the Qin" & "Xiao as Moral Agency: Filial Daughters and Family in Late Imperial China"

Talks by Robin D.S. Yates & Grace Fong

Monday, November 17, 2025
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383

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Going Vertical: The Vertical Short Revolution

Friday, November 14, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Main Conference Room (room 11360)
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What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why
Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University
Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383

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Archaeological Perspectives on the Economic Transformation of China during the First Millennium BCE Global Antiquity Distinguish Speaker Series

11月14日 Lothar von Falkenhausen 罗泰教授专题演讲「Archaeological Perspectives on the Economic Transformation of China during the First Millennium BCE」
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What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn’t Write about Gentlemen, and Why Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University

11月13日：韩明士教授 Robert Hymes 教授（哥伦比亚大学）专题演讲「What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why」
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11月14日 「短剧的崛起：短剧论坛」Going Vertical: The Vertical Short Revolution
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UCLA中国研究中心本周的活动：

11月10日：陈利 （多伦多大学）专题演讲「Tracing Invisible Power and Technocratic Governance in Qing Archives」
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11月12日： Film Screening: BEHEMOTH with director Zhao Liang
纪录片《悲兮魔兽》放映以及 赵亮导演映后对谈
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Tracing Invisible Power and Technocratic Governance in Qing Archives Talk by Li Chen, J.D. (UIUC) and Ph.D. (Columbia), Associate Professor of Chinese History at the University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment at the Faculty of Law.

11/10 @ UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Today! The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Friday, October 31, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Sammy Lee Lectures by Tristram R. Kidder, (Wash U, Saint Louis)

1) The Value of the Anthropocene Concept
10/31, 
1-3PM Bunche 10383
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2) Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
11/1, 
1- 3PM Fowler Lenart Auditorium
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Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.

Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China
Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.

10/30, 
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
Bunche Hall 10383
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Sammy Lee Lecture w/ Tristram R. Kidder (Wash U, Saint Louis).

The Value of the Anthropocene Concept
10/31; 
1-3 
Bunche Hall 10383
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Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
11/1; 
1-3 
Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium
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Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke

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FYI: Print copies of my book Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is now on sale for 50% at the Duke University Press website if you use the code: FALL25

Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium
www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...