Past Events (Chinese)

The BU Asian Student Union will host a speakers’ series called Breaking Boundaries. They will present a set of influential speakers who promote Asian awareness and praise inclusion, bringing attention to innovative new ideas and inspire students to find new ways to tackle their goals, whether they be career-oriented or otherwise.

BU Asian Student Union hopes to provide a platform to showcase stories from these Asian trailblazers and to shed light on the impact that they have made within their industries to spark conversation among our community.

Join BUTASA in our 14th annual Night Market on Sunday February 23! Night Market is a spin-off of the night markets in Taiwan, featuring stalls with local delicacies and entertaining games. Every attendee gets access to free Gongcha boba and 10 different kinds of Taiwanese food. The event will also consist of many different game booths and a raffle to finish it off!

The Hakka people, one of the ethnic minorities in Taiwan, have passed on their  traditions through generations which contributes to the diversity and richness of Taiwanese culture. This workshop starts with a brief history of the origin of Hakka people, followed by an introduction of some aspects of Hakka culture such as music, food and clothing. It concludes with an activity of painting paper umbrellas, the most prominent Hakka craftsmanship.

Description:

Boston University Chinese Students Association (BU CSA) is a student-run organization that aims to connect Chinese and American Cultures within the Boston University by sharing interests and fostering social contact among students and the community. This year, we strive to create a space for our members to foster professional development and to serve the local community. This year’s culture show theme will be the story of Mulan. To celebrate Lunar New Year we invite you to come out and join us on her journey.

Come out with your friends and immerse yourself in a night of Chinese culture! There will be TONS of food, performances and desserts in the spirit of the New Year festivities. Come celebrate with friends and family while enjoying performances from talented individuals from the Boston community! This is something you don’t want to miss!!

Abstract:

Rulers across Eurasia have drawn legitimacy from a claim that their governance would secure justice in their domain. While this notion of justice comes in many different framings and the interaction between them since antiquity is hard to trace, the spread of a curious installation that is first reported from China across Eurasia since the seventh century CE might be a significant pointer to the sharing of some of the underlying ideas and issues. This installation is a device such as a drum or a bell installed in the public domain directly outside the palace – but audible within – that supposedly allowed commoners to get direct access to the ruler himself with complaints about official abuses, remonstrance of the ruler himself, or crisis alerts. It spread throughout Eurasia since the 7^th century through diplomats, travelers, and merchants, and eventually through narratives about idealized local rulers of antiquity. Since the 17^thcentury, the images and texts in Zhang Juzheng’s 張居正 Illustrated Mirror for the Emperor 帝鑑圖說 (1572) led to a second transcultural career of the installation.

About the speaker: 

Rudolf G. Wagner is Senior Professor of Chinese Studies and Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” Heidelberg University, and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. His research interests are Chinese intellectual history, the political implications of Chinese philosophy, historiography, and literature, and the transcultural connections in modern Chinese conceptual, political, and cultural developments. His publications include a 3-volume study of Wang Bi’s (226-249) Commentary on the Laozi, studies on the role of religion in the Taiping Rebellion, on the early Chinese press, China’s role in the transcultural migration of concepts and political metaphors such as a nation “asleep” or partitioning a country “like a melon,” and two volumes on the politics of PRC writings in prose and drama. He has just finished a book on the politics of Chinese film in the last two years of the Cultural Revolution.

He is a recipient of the Leibnitz Award, a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and one of the founding directors of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” in Heidelberg, Germany.

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The art of Chinese Calligraphy. Join us as Chang Laoshi comes to introduce Chinese Calligraphy and teach students the techniques of writing with a brush and ink.

Come paint your own mask while learning about the symbolic meaning behind each color in the mask!

Sponsored by the Department of World Languages & Literatures, Center for the Study of Asia and Cinema and Media Studies.

“Some describe them as “problematic individuals”. They describe themselves as “creatures of politics”.

This event will be a cultural event for students interested in Chinese culture, activities will include music, videos, and art. This workshop is an optional event to expand on class discussions of Chinese culture.

Sponsored by
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship
BU Study Abroad Programs
BU Center for the Study of Asia

Join us for a viewing of the documentary “A Bite of China” and explore hands-on opportunities to cook authentic Chinese cuisine.