CHOSEN: A Screening and Q&A with Director Joseph Juhn

In Yu's view, under Xi Jinping, by invoking the celestial imperial order of China's past, the Xi Jinping regime is attempting to challenge and replace modern Western liberal, democratic values.

Prof. Littlejohn argues that efforts to harden coastal edges can undermine the very objects-social worlds-they claim to protect. Drawing on alternatives proposed by survivors, he asks how we might "ecologize safety" instead.

Film Screening: "Blue Island" (Chan Tze Woon, 2022, 98 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese and Mandarin w/ English subtitles, Color, DCP)

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Over the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights...

Film Screening: "The Heroic Trio" (Johnnie To, 1993, 83 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese w/ English subtitles, Color, DCP)

This final session of the 2022 APSI Summer Book Club will feature a discussion with visionary writer Yan Lianke and long-time collaborator and translator Carlos Rojas to...

During this session Duke PhD student in Art, Art History and Visual Studies Mariko Azuma will discuss Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri.

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So, we’re going to kick off book club a bit differently this year by joining forces with Prof. Eileen Chow’s #ReadingtheStone project. During...

This talk explains how the Loess Plateau in northern China has shaped, and has been shaped by, a range of human activities over the past three thousand years.