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10/09/2022

We are back!!

02/09/2022

Reading with Shelby is back!!!

27/04/2022

In 2017 while directing a research program for international high school students in Shanghai and Bejing, I met a bright young student who wasn't interested in learning Mandarin but who was interested in film and attending NYU's film school. We crossed paths a few years later-- when the parasols of the Forbidden City parted . . . to reveal . . . the back of my head. He had continued studying Chinese at NYU and was interning at a film company in Xian. Fast forward to 2022, Alfonso Morgan-Terrero will speak tomorrow (Th, 4/28, 7:30pm EST) at Centre College about his experience as a student of Chinese and a Caribbean-American filmmaker whose work has been shaped by Chinese New Wave cinema. Now an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and adjunct arts professor at NYU's department of Film and Television, he will also be leading a filmmaking workshop on pre-visualization. If your students ever wonder whether their studies of characters and tones will ever amount to anything, let Alfonso be their shining example.

His thesis short film CHAMPIONS received 1st place at the Wasserman Awards (link below). In 2019 Alfonso shot his debut feature length film VERDE, in the Province of Dajabón in Dominican Republic (link below). A crime drama wrapped as an art house film that meditates on grief, faith and salvation in an Afro-Caribbean border province, the film won the World Cinema Audience Award at the 51st Nashville Film Festival, screened in competition at the 31st New Orleans Film Festival, the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes France and the 28th Pan African Film Festival in LA, where it was nominated for Best Debut Feature.
Alfonso is a contributor to American Cinematographer with articles featuring his interviews of Tian Zhuangzhuang and cinematographer Xie Zhengyu on their latest film, Cry of Birds, and his study of The Eight 800, China's biggest blockbuster during the Pandemic and the first film to be shot on IMAX.

Topic: Chinese New Wave Film Convocation, Film Screening, and Filmmaking Workshop
Time: Apr 28, 2022 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://centre.zoom.us/j/99334461122...
Password: Film

18/04/2022

Our fall courses are ready!

11/04/2022

Have you ever wondered how Germans make those beautiful looking eggs that you see on trees and branches on home tables for Easter? And how do Germans celebrate Easter?

Come and join Dr. Bahr for a fun crafting session where we will blow out and paint eggs together. All you need to bring good lungs. No German knowledge required. RSVP by April 12! 🐣🐣🐣

18/11/2021

Tonight 11/18, 7:30-8:30pm, Evans-Lively: “Transformation, Innovation, and Politics: Jingju (Beijing/Peking Opera) in the People’s Republic of China from the 1940s to the 1970s”

Some scholars describe the Cultural Revolution as the most chaotic period in modern Chinese history. Other scholars argue that the positive aspects of socialism in China have been lost in the demonization of Maoist projects. Are you interested in how a study of cultural practices during the Maoist era can illuminate Maoist aspirations and logics? Are you interested in learning about the complexities of China’s modern history and evaluating them on their own terms?

Come hear Professor Xing Fan share her work on traditional Chinese theater and its modern manifestations. This event will explore the aesthetics, practices, politics, and development of traditional Chinese theater.

Description:
With more than three hundred regional theatrical forms, China has a strong tradition of dramatic literature and theatrical performance. From the 1940s to the 1970s, often referred to as the high socialist era of the People’s Republic of China, traditional theatre was the primary battlefield for a massive construction of a new, socialist culture. In this talk, Professor Xing Fan will use Jingju (Beijing/Peking opera) as a case study to discuss the interactions between politics and artistic creation in high socialist China. Already fully-fledged during the 1830s, Jingju has been an icon of Chinese classical theatre to many Chinese and international audiences, practitioners, and scholars. What have been the Chinese ideological interpretations of traditional theatre? How did Jingju professionals perceive their field’s artistic innovations? And how did changes transpire in Jingju’s repertory, practices, and aesthetics during these decades? In this talk, we will look into some signature features of Jingju’s traditional stage practices, will get familiarized with some key concepts in the Chinese Communist Party’s cultural policies, and will reflect on the dramatic dialogue between politics and theatre in China which has been the most obscure yet crucial part of the bigger picture of constructing socialist culture within the parameters prescribed by the Chinese Communist Party. Professor Fan will also discuss challenges and strategies in researching and writing about theatrical creations in the service of politics.

Dr. Xing Fan is Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a specialist in Chinese drama, theatre, and performance culture. Her broader research interests include practice and aesthetics in Asian performance, historiography, inter-cultural collaborations, gender and performance, sound studies and theatre, and pedagogy. Dr. Fan is the author of Staging Revolution: Artistry and Aesthetics in Model Beijing Opera during the Cultural Revolution (HKUP 2018). She is currently conducting two projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada, one on female transgression of Beijing opera during 1880–1949, the other on experimental traditional theatre in contemporary China. Dr. Fan is an area editor for Asian Theatre Journal and the current President of the Association for Asian Performance.

03/11/2021

Come learn about how your studies of China and Chinese language can be integrated into your career and life choices!
Alfonso Morgan-TerreroDeniz Cem Özensoy

20/10/2021

We are doing another round of German & Chinese fusion food. Come and join us. Space is limited!! Contact your professors to sign up.

20/09/2021

Here's to another collaboration of the Chinese & German language programs. Come and join us for a celebration of home and longing where we will make moon cakes and read poems in Chinese and German.

10/09/2021

Come and join us. Time has changed. Only from 10-12.

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