12 BOOKS OF #Christmas 🎄🎁
The Book of Beijing - Ed Bingbing Shi

Unravel the enigmatic capital of the Eastern superpower through the words of the freshest voices in Chinese fiction like 顾适 Gu Shi & Wen Zhen.

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Great to hear Shi Yifeng and Carson Ramsdell on The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast with Angus 「安安」 📻

Listen here as they leaf through three stories from The Book of #Beijing , including Shi Yifeng's 'Is Mr Zhang Home?'
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We are thrilled to announce the program for the “China and Global History” workshop that will take place at the Needham Research Institute at the University of Cambridge on 16 October 2023!

Pleased to share the termcard for the Cambridge Film & Screen Research Seminars for the Michaelmas term, featuring Hunter Vaughan, Kiki Yu (@FilmStudiesQMUL) and David Martin-Jones !

And we're looking forward to welcoming Gu Shi to Leeds in October as part of the launch for The Book of Beijing, from Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow, edited by Bingbing Shi. More info coming soon! commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…

我与万玛才旦导演的对话，也是对导演的一种悼念和致敬。mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Ugn9_e1d__WB…

It’s here!! Finished copies of The Book of Beijing edited by Bingbing Shi now available to order, featuring alternative street-level perspectives into life in China’s capital city. #ReadingTheCity #Beijing commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…

THE BOOK OF BEIJING coming this September! Look at that royal yellow!

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Karin Chien, producer and founder of dGenerate Films, was instrumental in bringing Pema Tseden’s vital work to a wider audience. We invite you to take a moment to read Chien’s tribute to her collaborator and friend: metafilm.ovid.tv/2023/05/11/pem… Karin Chien dGenerate Films

Devastated to learn of director Pema Tseden's sudden death 💔 A leading filmmaker in Tibetan cinema, Tseden was internationally acclaimed for his films, including four features we are immensely proud to represent: THE SEARCH, OLD DOG, THARLO, and JINPA.

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Nick Stember Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge 'Camera luminosa: Ghostly apparitions and supernatural photography in The Shade (1981)' Friday 18th November 3.30-5pm
#NeedhamResearchInstituteSeminar
8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF

I presented here last term, and it is one of the best places to discuss your ideas. Send in your abstracts!

‘Now they’re paying attention’

- love Eric Yip’s winning poem in this year’s National Poetry Competiton The Poetry Society

With this event hosted in the UK, you can watch my three films free online:

🎟A Life in Six Chapters (2021)
🎟Havana Divas (2019)
🎟Golden Gate Girls (2014)

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Incredibly well deserved - one of the best preserved ancient sites around, including a collection of Buddhist, Daoist, but also Christian, Islamic, and Hindu relics spread across one of the loveliest small cities in China.

🔴 BREAKING!

New inscription on the UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #WorldHeritage List: Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China, #China 🇨🇳. Congratulations! 👏

➡️ en.unesco.org/whc #44WHC

31 May | Online film screening and Q&A with Pema Tseden 万玛才旦, director of Tharlo 14:00 – 16:00 BST eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screeni… FAMES_Cambridge

24 May / Online film screening of We Were Smart (杀马特我爱你), a documentary about the shamate 杀马特 subculture, followed by Q&A with the director, Li Yifan 李一凡 eventbrite.co.uk/e/films-screen… 14:00-16:00 BST FAMES_Cambridge

Looking for free online courses on China? The ChinaX Book Club starts today!

Join Prof. David Der-wei Wang as he explores five works of contemporary fiction with authors Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, Ha Jin, and Wang Anyi

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