Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, translator, editor, and classical guzheng musician who has performed worldwide at such prestigious venues as Merkin Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, Maison des cultures du monde, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and the Musée Cernuschi. In this presentation, she discusses the history of the guzheng and guzheng music, and plays representative pieces, joined for some of the session by Middlebury College students. In English and Chinese with translation.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
Open to the Public

Female Directors: Two Recent Films from China

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature

“Female Directors” – Director: Yang Mingming; 2012, 43 min, Chinese w/English subtitles. Two brilliant young women, art school graduates with deliciously profane vocabularies and supreme confidence, talk sex, cinema, and power, as they wield their shared video camera like a scalpel. “Egg and Stone” – Director: Huang Ji; 2012, 98 min, Hunan dialect w/English subtitles. Set in rural Hunan province, Egg and Stone is a powerful autobiographical portrait of a 14-year-old girl’s attempts to come to terms with her emerging sexual maturity.

Open to the Public

Female Directors: Two Recent Films from China

6:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public

Engaging for Social Innovation in Tibet: Talk + Screening (Dinner provided)

5:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and Religion

What is it like to be working at the grass-roots level in Tibet today? What are the challenges as well as the bright sides? What positive social changes have been taking place in Tibet? What still needs to be done? Come join us for a talk by Dr. Losang Rabgey, founder of Machik, a leading grassroots organization devoted to incubating social innovation in Tibet. Following the talk, there will be a screening of “Tharlo”, the latest feature by the renowned Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden.

Axinn Center 219

Open to the Public

Documenting China’s Great Famine Part II: A Screening of “Self-Portrait: At 47 KM” with Director Zhang Mengqi

7:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Film & Media Culture, and East Asian Studies

Zhang Mengqi graduated from the Dance Academy of China Minorities University in 2008. “Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM” (2013, 77 min, Chinese with English subtitles) was her second film for the Memory Project. 47 KM is the name of the village where Zhang’s grandfather lives. Zhang has said, “In the summer and winter of 2010 …

(Private)

Open to the Public

Documenting China’s Great Famine Part I: A Talk by Filmmaker Wu Wenguang and a Screening of “Because of Hunger: Diary I”

7:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Film & Media Culture, and East Asian Studies

Wu Wenguang (b. 1956) is a leading figure in the Chinese New Documentary Film Movement. He has made ten films, including the seminal “Bumming in Beijing” (1991). In 2005 Wu co-founded the Caochangdi Workstation Art Center in Beijing, where he curated the Village Documentary Project (2005) and the on-going Memory Project (2010), which organizes amateur filmmakers to record memories of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961) and family and local histories. From 7:00 to 8:00 PM Wu will talk in English about the Memory Project and take questions.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public