Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Hunter College, CUNY Asian American Studies Program Presents Time: 2PM to 4PM Place: Hunter College, CUNY 695 Park Avenue, Manhattan Hunter West Building – Room 507 Free Admission Screening of Vincent Who? (Running Time: 40 Minutes), followed by discussion with producer/co-director Curtis Chin. In 1982, Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers … Read more
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 Time: 6PMPM to 9PM Place: PS 124, The Yung Wing School 40 Division Street, New York, NY 10002 Whether you are registered to vote in District 1 (Lower Manhattan, including Chinatown and the Lower East Side) or you have interests in the area, this is your opportunity to hear from … Read more
Date: Fridays, July 10, 17, 24 & 31; August 7, 2009 Time: 5:30PM to 8:00PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Free Admission Seating is extremely limited, and we are only able to accommodate up to 30 attendees per session. Registration will only be accepted per session on … Read more
Summer Palace (China, 2006) Running Time: 140 Minutes Beijing students and lovers Yu Hong (Lei Hao) and Zhou Wei (Xiaodong Guo) are torn apart during student pro-democracy demonstrations, and Zhou flees to the country. Years later, haunted by the memory of Yu, Zhou returns to China to find his true love. But has their love … Read more
Mongol (Mongolia, 2007) Running Time: 125 Minutes In the 12th century, an orphaned young slave named Temudjin (Tadanobu Asano) escapes from his captors and begins the journey that will lead him to become one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known. Honglei Sun and Ying Bai co-star in this Oscar-nominated epic adventure from … Read more
Slumdog Millionaire (United Kingdom, 2008) Running Time: 120 Minutes After coming within one question of winning 20 million rupees on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” 18-year-old Mumbai “slumdog” Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is arrested on suspicion of cheating. While in custody, Jamal regales a jaded police inspector (Irfan Khan) with … Read more