BUCSA News Archives
Jenna Tang’s new translation of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, by Lin Yi-Han (Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, May 31, 2024)
The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith focuses on stories of migration, the intersection of politics and literature, and works in translation. Join us this Friday May 31, 2024 for an in-store event with translator Jenna Tang to discuss and celebrate the release of Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han. She will be in conversation with writer Grace Talusan. One of the biggest books to come out of Taiwan in the last decade and a #MeToo feminist manifesto across Asia, the novel is a chilling tale of grooming and trauma and the power structures that allow it to flourish. Insightful and unsettling, More
The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas (at the National Museum of Asian Art, Wash. DC, ongoing)
The Art of Knowing brings together highlights from our collections to explore religious and practical knowledge across time, space, and cultures. Featuring stone sculptures, gilt bronzes, and painted manuscripts from India, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia, this exhibition illuminates the critical role of visual culture in conveying Buddhist and Hindu teachings from the ninth to the twentieth centuries. From Ganesha, the god of beginnings, to goddesses who personify wisdom, the artworks on view tell individual stories and reveal ways of knowing our world. The Art of Knowing asks how artists and objects shape wisdom traditions. How do shared images and... More
Do Ho Suh: Public Figures (Contemporary Korean art exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC, April 27, 2024–April 29, 2029)
To usher in the next century of the National Museum of Asian Art, artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, South Korea) was commissioned to create a special edition of his work Public Figures to be installed in front of the museum and facing the National Mall in Washington, DC. Internationally recognized for his large-scale installations, Suh was among the earliest contemporary artists featured in the museum’s groundbreaking Pavilion exhibition series and his work will be the first new sculpture to be installed outside the historic Freer Gallery of Art in over three decades. As an artist living and working between his familial roots in South Korea... More
Shan Shui Reboot: Re-envisioning Landscape for a Changing World (at the China Institute, NYC, until July 7, 2024)
“Shan Shui Reboot” presents visually spectacular and thought-provoking creations by seven young artists born between 1974 and 1992. China Institute Gallery will present a special spring exhibition, Shan Shui Reboot: Re-Envisioning Landscape for a Changing World, on view from March 7 through July 7, 2024. The exhibition highlights a new generation of artists who are reinterpreting traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of today’s global social issues and climate crisis. Shan shui refers to the time-honored painting of natural landscapes with brush and ink focused on an awareness of inner spiritual philosophy. The exhibition features the recent work of seven... More
Indian Classical Music Concert, by the Boston University Indian Music Ensemble) (Apr. 18, 2024)
The BU College of Fine Arts is pleased to invite you to a performance by the Boston University Indian Music Ensemble Thursday, April 18, 2024 from 8:00 to 10:00 pm College of Fine Arts Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue (1st floor), Boston, MA
Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements (Cabot Library, Harvard)(March 29 2024)
Portraits of Freedom is meant to commemorate the women who have played pivotal roles in the Tibetan, Uyghur, Hong Konger, and Taiwanese freedom movements in government, academia, activism, etc… through a photo exhibition featuring portraits and snapshots of these women accompanied by text describing their story. In addition to the exhibition, a launch event will be held on Friday, March 29th at 6:30PM with dinner included where speakers from these movements in the Boston area will be invited to reflect on their experiences and their appreciation for the women who have carried these movements forward. A discussion and audience Q&A... More
Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China (at the Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library, opening in May 2024)
The next exhibition at the Leventhal Center, opening in May 2024, takes a close look at an extraordinary pair of maps from early nineteenth-century China. This exhibition, Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China, will draw viewers into conversations about Chinese material culture, the circulation of printing techniques around the world, and the different perspectives on space and place that emerge from different intellectual traditions. Click here to read an interview with Dr. Richard Pegg, the guest curator of Heaven and Earth, about these extraordinary maps https://www.leventhalmap.org/articles/interview-richard-pegg/?utm_source=emailoctopus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-01-22%20General%20Newsletter) 大清萬年一統地理全圖 Daqing wannian yitong dili quantu; Complete map of the geography of the everlasting, More
Occasional Papers on Asia No. 6: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at Ten: The World According to China, and China According to the World, by Rebin Najmalddin (Pardee School, Boston University)
We are pleased to present the latest volume in our BUCSA series, Occasional Papers on Asia. In this volume, Rebin Najmalddin (Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University) provides an excellent summary of the presentations and panel discussions from the October 12-13, 2023 conference, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at Ten: The World According to China, and China According to the World, co-organized by Grant Rhode (Pardee School, Boston University) and Andrew Wilson (US Naval War College). You can read this new Occasional Papers here and you can read more about the series of past presentations and conferences around the topic... More
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, with Shenila Khoja-Moolji (at MIT, Feb. 21, 2024)
“Hallyu! The Korean Wave” exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, opens March 24, 2024
From tradition to trendsetting Today, South Korea is a cultural superpower—a global trendsetter producing award-winning films like Parasite, riveting dramas like Squid Game, and chart-topping music by K-pop groups such as BTS and BLACKPINK. But behind the country’s meteoric rise to the world stage—a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave, or hallyu—is the story of remarkable resilience and innovation. Just a century ago, Korea was in search of a new national identity, following its occupation by Japan and the Korean War. Harnessing cutting-edge technology, the country has rapidly transformed its economy and international reputation. At the same time, its creative outputs are deeply rooted... More