This week: The Afro Yaqui Music Collective welcomes guest collaborator Min Xiao-fen and also performs works by avant-jazz funk musician Fred Ho; live electronic performances accompanied by Yiyang Cao’s minimalist...
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This week: A restored version of one of Jackie Chan’s best films; a marionette show; a workshop that recycles confetti from the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade; an afternoon of...
This week: Two local jazz musicians and composers who find inspiration in their heritage; Asia Society’s First Friday includes performances by renowned calligrapher Wang Dongling and Kunqu singer Qian Yi;...
Apologies for our recent not posting earlier in the week and missing one or two weeks of posts. The events calendar and the exhibitions calendar are kept up to date. So...
The Lunar New Year is more than exchanging greetings and blessings on the first day and eating dumplings. In Chinese culture, it’s a fifteen-day holiday on a schedule wherein each...
This week: Documentaries about Filipino workers in Taiwan and about three siblings from Harlem who search for their family roots; artist talk with Joyce Yu-Jean Lee; opening reception at Wing On...
This week: A gritty, critically acclaimed animated Chinese film; classic wuxia at Metrograph; extremely rare movies from Hong Kong; a retrospective of films by a Tibetan filmmaker; Jackie Chan at...
This week: Chinese composers; music in classical Chinese literature; explorations of the human voice by Audrey Chen; a panel discussion about “new” Chinese food and new Chinese diasporic identity ;...
This week: Wang Bing’s observational documentary on the lives of migrant textile factory workers; the launch of Issue Two of The Shanghai Literary Review; exhibitions by an artist from Macau and...
Happy New Year! We’re excited that this inaugural event and exhibition listing of 2018 includes screenings of Feng Xiaogang’s Youth, a re-interpretation of a masterpiece of Chinese theater written in the...