Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, CambridgeRare and valuable is the filmmaker who expands one’s conception of the cinematic art; rarer still is the filmmaker who enlarges one’s notion of the term “director.” Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) accomplished the former with his rigorous, uncompromising and reputation-defining features of the nineties and early 2000s, and ever since his self-declared […]
Ya-wen Lei – The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridgeSpeaker: Ya-wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Using Daniel Bell’s work as a springboard, I analyze the emergent post-industrial society in China, focusing on China’s techno-development from the mid-2000s to the present day. Noting the extraordinary transformation of China’s economy and society during this time, some scholars have compared China’s post-reform period […]