Event Details

WHAT: "Women in Chinese Silent Cinema: Gender roles and modernity" by Prof. Paul Pickowicz



WHEN: Oct. 6, 2023, Friday, from 7:00-8:00 PM Beijing Time



WHERE: The Courtyard Institute, 28 Zhonglao Hutong, Dongcheng district, Beijing

北京市东城区中老胡同28号，四合书院

(On Didi and GPS search: Sihe College, 28 Zhonglao Hutong. Parking is impossible.)



MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: This presentation uses clips from rare silent films produced in China in the 1920s and early 1930s to explore the complicated and diverse roles played by women in the Shanghai global metropolis and other urban settings. You will learn more about how gender roles were shifting at a time when modernity was having a significant impact on Chinese cities. Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and associate producer of the documentary films China in Revolution, 1911-1949 (1989) and The Mao Years, 1949-1976 (1994).

NOTE: After the talk concludes, a few RASBJ Council members plan to have dinner with Prof. Pickowicz at Black Sesame Kitchen (BSK), adjacent to Courtyard Institute, starting after 8:15 PM. BSK is a private dining establishment with communal dining. If anyone independently wishes to book a seat at BSK's communal dining table that evening, please contact BSK separately at 136 9147 4408 and pay directly to BSK. Dinner arrangements are not part of RASBJ's event, and are not included in the event ticket price. BSK can tell you the set meal menu and pricing, and will require payment 24 hours in advance.



HOW MUCH: Admission is RMB 100 for RASBJ members and Schwarzman College students and faculty, RMB 200 for non-members. The price includes one welcome drink plus light nibbles.



HOW TO JOIN THE EVENT: Please click "Register" or "I Will Attend" by noon on Oct. 4, and follow the instructions. If you experience difficulty paying via Wechat, please try Alipay instead. After successful registration you will receive a confirmation email. If you seem not to have received it, please check your spam folder. Numbers will be limited; places will be allocated in order of receipt of payment. Successful registrants will receive the QR code for the WeChat group in which updates, last-minute details, and a location pin for the venue will be posted.



REFUND POLICY: Attendees will be refunded in full if RASBJ cancels this event. Registrations for those who have not paid by Oct. 3 will be cancelled. After noon on Oct. 4, if you registered/paid but discover you cannot attend, please let us know by emailing communications@rasbj.org and RASBJ will offer your spot to others; you'll be refunded if someone takes it.

Speakers

  • Paul Pickowicz (Speaker)

    Paul Pickowicz

    Speaker

    Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and inaugural holder of the UC San Diego Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History. His books (authored, coauthored, and coedited) include Marxist Literary Thought in China (1981), Unofficial China (1989), Chinese Village, Socialist State (1992, winner of the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies), New Chinese Cinemas (1994), Popular China (2002), Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China (2005), From Underground to Independent (2006), The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History (2006), Dilemmas of Victory (2007), China on the Margins (2010), Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China (2011), China on Film (2012), Restless China (2013), Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis (2013) Filming the Everyday (2017), China Tripping (2019), A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China (2019), and Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2020). He has won three distinguished teaching awards: UC San Diego Alumni Association (1998), Chancellor’s Associates (2009), and Academic Senate (2003). He has been invited to teach his famous course on the history of Chinese silent cinema at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Heidelberg, and Renmin University (Beijing). In 2012 he taught the same course in Chinese at East China Normal University (Shanghai). Pickowicz has graduated 38 PhD students. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford, National University of Singapore, University of Edinburgh, University of Heidelberg, East China Normal University, City University of Hong Kong, Ecole Normale Superieure (Lyon, France), Hong Kong Institute of Education, and Tsinghua University. He is associate producer of the documentary films China in Revolution, 1911-1949 (1989) and The Mao Years, 1949-1976 (1994). Pickowicz was honored by the German government in 2016 when it presented him with a Humboldt Research Award for lifetime accomplishments in research and teaching.

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Venue

Courtyard Institute

Sihe College
28 Zhong Lao Hu Tong
北京市东城区中老胡同28号
四合书院
Bei Jing Shi, China

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