Transnational Chinese Villagers: NY’s Fuzhounese Immigrants Build a Global Community

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

Experiencing China and Chinese Culture: CUNY Study Abroad in China

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

Evolution of Chinese Cinema Workshop

The three climatic stages in the evolution of Chinese cinema is full of excitement and successes. The three stages represented the high quality in Chinese cinema. This workshop series will serve as a talk into the details and explainations of these three stages. We will also be watching a variety of movies in which we can talk about and analyze. This workshop series will also talk about movies from Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

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