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  • Film Screening – Jinpa

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Directed 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 truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the

  • 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. Mandarin with English subtitles. Recently discovered by the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute, I Didn’t Dare Tell You and The End of the Track debuted at the

  • Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Rare 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

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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 States

    Speakers: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; Research Fellow, HKS  Rural China. Mysterious, distant, silent. What does it mean to address rural-urban educational inequality in China as an individual and a volunteer?

  • 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 States

    Introduction: 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. The Fairbank Center's Big Waves, Great Earthquakes screening series presents its first film, China’s First Environmental Film - Big Tree County (1992). Big Waves, Great

  • 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 States

    Edward 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 global, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates

  • 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 States

    Similar 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 of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life

  • Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    A 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 feels like a second take of his Taipei Story, Yang stages a frantic tango that is danced not with two but twelve. A circle of closely

  • Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mahjong 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, but in deliberating what one already has and could afford to discard or how to acquire from others what one desires but does not yet

  • Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Characterized 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 and death among three different couples: a young photographer and his literary girlfriend; a middle-class and middle-aged married couple whose mutual estrangement grows to the

  • Film Screening: That Day, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    A renowned young pianist, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang), gets in touch with her to reconvene over an afternoon coffee. That Day, on the Beach takes place over a conversation between the two female friends, during

  • Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 2 – Skirting Censorship in Tibet: No. 16. Barkhor South Street, featuring an introduction by Janet Gyatso and remarks from Lobsang Sangay

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Introduction: Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard Divinity SchoolProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Update: Post-screening discussion with Lobsang Sangay, former Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration, Senior Visiting Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. Big Waves, Great Earthquakes explores the largely unseen