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.
Film and Media
April 3 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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; …
December 9, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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, …
How to Tell the Good Dongbei Story? A Dialogue with Ban Yu 讲好东北故事？班宇谈小说
October 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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 …
Film Screening and In-Person Director Discussion – Days (Rizi)
October 10, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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
September 30, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - October 21, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
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 …
Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
September 21, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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 …
Victor Fan – The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze’s Time-Image
2022-23 Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies, University of Toronto