Events

Film Screening: An Elephant Sitting Still

Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

The final event of the spring semester for the Emergent Visions film series will be hosted at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. The event is free and open to the public. SYNOPSIS: An Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐), 2018, HD, Mandarin with English subtitles, 230 min. Under the gloomy sky of a small town in […]

Vigil and Memorial: Two Films by Wang Bing

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

An in-person discussion with Wang Bing follows each film screening. $12 Special Event Tickets This event is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center's Emergent Visions in Independent Chinese Cinema series, organized by Professor Jie Li, and the Harvard Film Archive. ***NOTE TIME CHANGE*** Friday November 9 at 8pm Mrs. Fang A moving and bracing portrait of […]

Film Screening: The Great Buddha

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

Directed by Huang Hsin-yao. With Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai Taiwan 2017, DCP, color & b/w, 102 min. Min Nan with English subtitles https://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free

Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju

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

Discussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and 1931, yet no more than twenty have survived the wars that followed. The serendipitous rediscovery of Zhu Shouju’s 1925 film The Stormy Night gives us a rare […]

Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie – The Spark

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

Director Hu Jie will be in person for a Q&A (Mandarin with English translation) following the screening. Following the Anti-Rightist movement of 1957, a group of Lanzhou University students who had been condemned as Rightists were sent to rural areas in Tianshui, Gansu Province, to be reformed through labor. There they witnessed the violent absurdities […]

Film Screening and Panel Discussion – “One Child Nation”

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

Panel 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 of Chinese Society, Harvard University Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature […]

Film Screening – Fukuoka

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

Directed 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, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As […]

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 […]

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 […]

$10 – $15

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 […]