Michael Berry (白睿文)

OMG, it is officially called “Operation Epic Fury”!? That is literally what my son would have called an imaginary superhero battle royal when he was six years old. 🤦

Check out this great series of Chinese cinema at UCLA this winter: www.cinema.ucla.edu/series/echoe...

灣區的朋友，我明早北上參加BACCS Cinema主辦的灣區文化沙龍。這次畢贛導演也要過來，我們將討論他的電影生涯。

報名詳情請參考：
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An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie
Film Screening of Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis
Screening and discussion with film director Jiang Nengjie
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ucla Melnitz Hall Darren Star Theater

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Silencing - Mekong Review For English language readers outside China, these translations of The Running Flame and Soft Burial help to reframe Fang Fang as a writer of more than Wuhan Diary.

Many thanks to Paul French for taking the time and care to review The Running Flame and Soft Burial by Fang Fang for the Mekong Review: mekongreview.com/silencing/

Protean Assemblages: The Literary Invention of Han Taiwanese Settlerhood in the Postwar Pacific
Yu-ting Huang, (East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University)
Thursday, November 20, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
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Protean Assemblages: The Literary Invention of Han Taiwanese Settlerhood in the Postwar Pacific Talk by Yu-ting Huang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University.

"The Question of Slavery under the Qin" & "Xiao as Moral Agency: Filial Daughters and Family in Late Imperial China"

Talks by Robin D.S. Yates & Grace Fong

Monday, November 17, 2025
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383

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Going Vertical: The Vertical Short Revolution

Friday, November 14, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Main Conference Room (room 11360)
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What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why
Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University
Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383

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Archaeological Perspectives on the Economic Transformation of China during the First Millennium BCE Global Antiquity Distinguish Speaker Series

11月14日 Lothar von Falkenhausen 罗泰教授专题演讲「Archaeological Perspectives on the Economic Transformation of China during the First Millennium BCE」
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What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn’t Write about Gentlemen, and Why Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University

11月13日：韩明士教授 Robert Hymes 教授（哥伦比亚大学）专题演讲「What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why」
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11月14日 「短剧的崛起：短剧论坛」Going Vertical: The Vertical Short Revolution
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UCLA中国研究中心本周的活动：

11月10日：陈利 （多伦多大学）专题演讲「Tracing Invisible Power and Technocratic Governance in Qing Archives」
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11月12日： Film Screening: BEHEMOTH with director Zhao Liang
纪录片《悲兮魔兽》放映以及 赵亮导演映后对谈
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Tracing Invisible Power and Technocratic Governance in Qing Archives Talk by Li Chen, J.D. (UIUC) and Ph.D. (Columbia), Associate Professor of Chinese History at the University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment at the Faculty of Law.

11/10 @ UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Today! The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Friday, October 31, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Sammy Lee Lectures by Tristram R. Kidder, (Wash U, Saint Louis)

1) The Value of the Anthropocene Concept
10/31, 
1-3PM Bunche 10383
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2) Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
11/1, 
1- 3PM Fowler Lenart Auditorium
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Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.

Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China
Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.

10/30, 
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
Bunche Hall 10383
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Sammy Lee Lecture w/ Tristram R. Kidder (Wash U, Saint Louis).

The Value of the Anthropocene Concept
10/31; 
1-3 
Bunche Hall 10383
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Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
11/1; 
1-3 
Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium
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Book giveaway for The Privileged: A Novel by Wu Xiaole Nov 17-Dec 15, 2025 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 17-Dec 15, 2025. Enter for a chance to win a Kindle edition of ''The Privileged'', the latest novel fr...

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Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke

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FYI: Print copies of my book Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is now on sale for 50% at the Duke University Press website if you use the code: FALL25

Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium
www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Friday, October 31, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.

Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China
by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington.

Thursday, October 30, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383
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Transformation and Continuity of Confucianism Talk by Mimi Pi 皮迷迷, associate professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China. She is a visiting scholar at Harvard Fairbank center for 2025-26 academic year.

If you are on campus at UCLA, this starts in a few minutes: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

恐怖片與小說靈感的特殊連結？《字裡行間》訪談作家陳栢青的創作歷程 - 迷誠品 《字裡行間：華人作家對談錄．台灣卷》中集結八位文學界廣為人知的著名作家，包含白先勇、林懷民、龍應台、駱以軍、吳明益、舞鶴、陳栢青、陳思宏，透過深入訪談，探索這些創作者的靈感來源，感受不同作家書寫題材的差異，呈現台灣文學圈多元且豐富的創作風貌

我在《字裡行間：華人作家對談錄》跟陳栢青的對談被誠品轉載：

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Transformation and Continuity of Confucianism Talk by Mimi Pi 皮迷迷, associate professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China. She is a visiting scholar at Harvard Fairbank center for 2025-26 academic year.

This week at UCLA CCS:

"Transformation and Continuity of Confucianism:
A Case Study of Kang Youwei's Confucian Reform"
Lecture by Mimi Pi 皮迷迷, (associate professor, Capital Normal University in Beijing).
10/23/25, 
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Haines Hall 118
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A Buddha Descends Talk by Prof. Scott Pearce, Western Washington University.

This week at UCLA CCS

A Buddha Descends

Thursday, 10/ 16, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Pacific Time)
Young Hall CS76
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Havana Divas - Film Screening and Discussion

Friday, October 17, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Kaplan A26
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The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

I published two pieces on women in China this week! First, a review essay @chinabooksreview.com on two Fang Fang novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame (tr. Michael Berry). Gendered oppression has persisted during the socialist period and capitalist reforms, despite the CCP's promise of liberation.