On April 17, in a packed Tsai Auditorium, Ren Ke, one of rock band Wu Tiao Ren’s key members, shared his perspectives with Prof. Zheng Lin from Sun Yat-sen University, who is doing research on the band and urban villages.
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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;
Panelists:Ban, Yu ,Writer班宇(作家)Cui, Qiao, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation崔峤(北京当代艺术基金会)Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame贺麦晓(圣母大学)Huang, Ping, East China Normal University黄平(华东师范大学)Liang, Hai, Dalian University of Technology梁海(大连理工大学)Liu, Yan, University of International Business and Economics刘岩(对外经济贸易大学)Zhang,
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.With Lee Kang-sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy.Taiwan/France, 2020, DCP, color, 127 min.Mandarin with English subtitles. In-person discussion with the director follows the film screening.Featuring remarks by Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.Taiwan, 2015, DCP, color, 137 min.Mandarin with English subtitles. In-person discussion with the director follows the film screening. As if created to refute the notion that artists are
Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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
Speaker: Victor Fan, King’s College London In Zen Buddhism, the notion of here and now is the key to attain––or return to––paññā/prajñā (insight). On a day-to-day basis, we live each moment
2022-23 Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies, University of Toronto