Events Calendar

Exhibitions and Activities
Museum of East Asian Art
The Museum of East Asian Art has a rolling programme of exhibitions and activities for adults and children. Go their website for a full listing.

Venue: Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath BA1 2QJ
Times: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun, 12noon-5pm. Closed Mondays
Contact: tel. 01225 464-640, info@meaa.org.uk, www.meaa.org.uk 

Introduced by Jingjing Xie and Xuhua Zhan.
    25 February at 2pm.

Confucius,
directed by Hu Mei (2010),  125mins. 
    4 February at 2.10pm.
    8 February at 6.10pm

Woman Basketball Play no.5,
directed by Xin Jie (1957), 89mins.
Introduction by Chris Berry, Goldsmiths, University of London
    6 February at 2pm

A Simple Life,
directed by Ann Hui (2011), 117mins. 
    17 February at 2pm
    22 February at 6.20pm

Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in Rural China
Speaker: Dr Vanesa Pesqué Cela (King's College London)

Venue: SOAS, Room G50, Ground floor, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Time: 5-6.30pm
Tickets: public lecture, all welcome
Contact: Dr Dic Lo dl1@soas.ac.uk or Rahima Begum: events@soas.ac.uk, www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events/seminars/ 

Exhibition
Chen Man solo exhibition
Artist: Chen Man
Chinese Arts Centre presents a solo exhibition of Chen Man's latest video work. 

Venue: Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1EU
Times: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Contact: tel 0161 832-7271, 
www.chinese-arts-centre.org/main-gallery/a-new-solo-exhibition-by-chen-man/

Lecture
There's something about being small: Taiwan's soft power and public diplomacy
Speaker: Professor Gary Rawnsley (Leeds)
Organised by the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford
Convener: Dr Rachel Murphy

Venue: Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2  6JF
Time: 5-6.30pm
Contact: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk, tel 01865 274-559, www.sant.ox.ac.uk/asian/asianlectures.html

Learning to live with pollution: the making of environmental subjects in a Chinese industrialised village
Speaker: Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright (Oxford)
Organiser: SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies Seminars Term 2 & 3

Venue: SOAS, Room G50, Main Building, Russell Square, London WC1h 0XG
Date: 20 February 2012
Time: 5-6.30pm
Tickets: Free public lecture, just come along
Contact: events@soas.ac.uk , tel. 020 7898-4893/2
www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events/

Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Globalisation of a Local Problem, 1701-1704
Speaker: Professor Nicholas Standaert (Catholic University of Leuven)
Cambridge University’s Asian Studies Seminar Series

Venue: Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
Date: 20 February 2012
Time: 5pm-6.30pm
Contact: Adam Chau, tel 01223 335-146, ayc25@cam.a.c.uk 
www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news_events/asc-seminar/

Lecture
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Speaker: Ezra Vogel (Harvard)
Organised by Chatham House

Venue: 10 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE
Date: 21 February 2012
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Tickets: If you would like to attend this meeting, please register giving your name and institutional affiliation.
Contact: asia@chathamhouse.org, www.chathamhouse.org.uk, tel 020 7957-5700

Speaker: Jan Knoerich (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
Organised by Oxford University's Dept of Economics
Part of the Hilary Term 2012 China Economy Seminar Series

Venue: Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ
Date: 22 February 2012
Time: 5-6.30pm
Contact:  Jan Knoerich jan.knoerich@area.ox.ac.uk,  
or Taichang Chen taichang.chen@PMB.OX.AC.UK,
www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/seminars/C77/ 

Lecture
Cross-Strait Cyber-Communities and the Perceptions of Taiwanese: the Case of Xiamen, Fujian Province
Speakers: Professor Jens Damm (Chang Jung Christian University)
Organised by the Asian Studies Centre, Oxford, convener Rachel Murphy

Venue: Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
Time: 5-6.30pm
Contact: tel 01865 274-559, asian@sant.ox.ac.uk, 
www.sant.ox.ac.uk/asian/asianlectures.html

Lecture
History and the Development of Chinese Foreign Policy
Speaker: Professor Kawashima Shin (University of Tokyo)
Cambridge University’s Asian Studies Seminar Series 

Venue: Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
Date: 5 March 2012
Time: 5pm-6.30pm
Contact: Adam Chau, tel 01223 335-146, ayc25@cam.a.c.uk 
www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news_events/asc-seminar/

Lecture
The Asian Highway Network: the transmission of Chinese power via transport connectivity in Asian sub-regions
Speaker: Dr Kun-chin Lin (Cambridge)
SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Seminars terms 2

Lecture
World factory without workers: the new trend of Chinese workers' strikes
Speaker: Dr Chun-Yi Lee (Nottingham)
Organised by the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford, Hilary Term lectures 2012

Lecture
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Hsu (Oxford)
Cambridge University’s Asian Studies Seminar Series

Venue: Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
Date: 12 March 2012
Time: 5-6.30pm
Contact: Adam Chau, tel 01223 335-146, ayc25@cam.a.c.uk 
www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news_events/asc-seminar/

Venue: SOAS Main Building, Room G50, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Date: 12 March 2012
Time: 5-6.30pm
Tickets: public lecture, all welcome
Contact: events@soas.ac.uk , tel. 020 7898-4893 /2
www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events/

Conference - Film 
The Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese and Asian Cinema in the UK
CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline 1 February 2012
In March 2012 the Chinese Film Forum UK will host a major symposium on the distribution and exhibition of Chinese and Asian cinema in the UK. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this is the first in a series of Chinese Film Forum networking events taking place across 2012 and 2013 in Manchester, UK.

Venue: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH
Date: 28-29 March 2012
Contact: Felicia.chan@manchester.ac.uk or a.willis@salford.ac.uk<mailto:a.willis@salford.ac.uk, tel 0161 275 8963
www.cornerhouse.org/film/film-events/the-chinese-film-forum-uk
www.facebook.com/cffuk

All day event
China Inside Out
English PEN is hosting a day-long programme of debates, readings, film screenings, food and music that will aim to improve our understanding of the freedom to write, and the freedom to read, in China. Featuring acclaimed Chinese authors Li Jianhong, Ma Jian, Ou Ning, and Xinran as well as expert editors and journalists, join us for this amazing opportunity to gain an insight into Chinese writing and society. This event is organised in advance of the London Book Fair's Market Focus on China, 16-18 April.
Organised by English Pen in association with Free Word, ICORN and The Reading Agency

Venue: Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA
Date: 29 March 2012
Time: 9.30am–5.30pm
Tickets: Full day entry £20; £10 concessions, including light lunch and refreshments.
Contact: tel 020 7324 2570 or visit www.freewordonline.com/events (for bookings);  
www.englishpen.org/events/penevents/chinainsideout/

Workshop
Chinese Instruments and Western Museums
CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline 15 April 2012
The aim is to share and exchange information in the realm of Chinese musical instruments, in an open, informal atmosphere. The meeting should be of interest to museum curators and others who work with instrument collections, and scholars active in the realm of Chinese instruments and instrumental music.
Organised by CHIME and the University of Leiden

Venue: Leiden, The Netherlands
Dates: 13-16 September 2012
Contact: 
For more information about submitting a paper  ciwm2012@gmail.com 
General enquiries thtsai@mac.com and/or Frank Kouwenhoven chime@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~chime 
www.mimo-international.com

Asian Art in London is an event which involves London's leading Asian art dealers from Kensington Church Street, Mayfair and St James's, joining together for a series of selling exhibitions during the week of Asian Art in London. At the same time, the major auction houses of Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's hold auctions and gallery talks. In combination with this, the premier London Museums and Institutions present exhibitions and lectures.