Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
En Route To Lhasa – In 2000, a group of Chinese American Buddhists participated in a pilgrimage to Nepal and Tibet. They crossed the Himalaya and visited many rarely seen temples and caves where famous Buddhist practitioners stayed. The video is a montage of this memorable journey, to a place where his holiness, the Dalai … Read more
Virtuosity is an art of extremes, of playing an instrument or wielding a brush at the breathtaking limit of technical power. In this multimedia exploration of the topic of the virtuoso in art, literature and music, Dr. Charles A. Riley II, the author of a dozen books on the arts, examines the issue of whether … Read more
Chinese kung fu is perhaps the single Chinese cultural tradition that is most widely recognized the world over. What was once an obscure fighting art practiced in secrecy by monks, rebels and warriors in ancient China is now part of the global pop culture as is evident by international block buster movies like Crouching Tiger … Read more
Kwong will talk about dramatic economic and political changes that have occurred within the Chinese community during the last twenty years and the challenges they have posed.
Over the past twenty years Fuzhounese immigrants have transformed the face of New York’s Chinatown, supplanting the Cantonese as Chinatown’s largest ethnic Chinese community and vying for leadership in the area’s economics, politics, social life, and even language use. Drawing upon ongoing field research in New York and Fuzhou, this lecture will explore the emergence … Read more
This lecture will talk about unique features of CUNY-Asian-faculty-led study abroad in China program. In particular, the lecture will discuss various educational benefits of the program while students and faculty have real experience of China’s society, the people, the language, and culture. Topics: how the trip is organized prominent and unique features of the program … Read more