Film Screening
Events
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Film Screening and Panel Discussion – “One Child Nation”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanel Discussion: Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation” Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor
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Film Screening – Fukuoka
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Zhang Lu Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Peng Hai, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good friends in college,
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Film Screening – Jinpa
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Pema Tseden Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a
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Harvard Film Archive Film Screening – Tabooed Initiation: Two Early Films by Mou Tun-Fei
I Didn't Dare Tell You / Bugan gen ni jiang, 78 minutes, Taiwan, 1969. Mandarin with English subtitles. The End of the Track / Pao Dao Zhongdian, 90 minutes, Taiwan, 1970.
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Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRare 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
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Film Screening: “The Schools Out of City,” Featuring Discussion with Executive Director (PEER), Hong Liu and Co-producer, Xinran Liang
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Hong Liu, Executive Director of PEER, an NGO dedicated to promoting educational equity in rural China Xinran Liang, Co-producer of the documentary Menghan Shen, Associate Professor of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University;
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Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 – China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIntroduction: Iza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang.
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Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEdward Yang’s cinematic swan song, released at the turn of the millennium, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly
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Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSimilar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s, against the backdrop
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Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what
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Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMahjong is a game for four players, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se,
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Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCharacterized as “Yang’s most difficult, intellectually provocative, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson), Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love