UCLA Center for Chinese Studies

10/05/2026

This Friday at UCLA CCS, three (!) separate events! Come to one, to two, come to all three!:

The Rise and Demise of Paper Money in Imperial China
Friday, October 9, 2026�9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)�Bunche Hall, Rm 6275

Tiananmen Tonight Film Screening and Discussion
Friday, October 9, 2026�9:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Pacific Time)�Young Research Library

An Evening with Herman Yau: Featuring a Special Screening of We're Nothing At All
Friday, October 9, 2026�6:30 PM - 10:00 PM (Pacific Time)�James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

The Center for Chinese Studies promotes cutting-edge scholarship in all disciplines, fosters a research and teaching environment free from political and financial pressures, and makes the results of scholarly investigations available for use beyond academic circles. We aim to become the strongest in...

10/02/2026

Free film screening: Tiananmen Tonight Film Screening and Discussion
Friday, October 9, 2026
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
UCLA Young Research Library
Main Conference Room 11360

https://www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17754

09/30/2026

Quite a few upcoming October events at the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. A few highlights include:

The Rise and Demise of Paper Money in Imperial China
Friday, October 9, 2026�9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)�Bunche Hall, Rm 6275

Tiananmen Tonight Film Screening and Discussion
Friday, October 9, 2026�9:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Pacific Time)�Young Research Library

An Evening with Herman Yau: Featuring a Special Screening of We're Nothing At All
Friday, October 9, 2026�6:30 PM - 10:00 PM (Pacific Time)�James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

Fiction After Protest: Hong Kong, Memory and Translation in Everyday Movement
Tuesday, October 13, 2026�1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)�Bunche Hall 10383

Money and the Making of Empire in Ancient China: Competition, Unification and Expansion
Thursday, October 15, 2026�11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Pacific Time)�Franz Hall Room 1178

Territorial Discontent: CHamorus, Filipinos, and the Making of the United States Empire in Guåhan [Book Talk]
Thursday, October 29, 2026�11:00 AM (Pacific Time)�Haines Hall, Rm A18

The 4th International Chinese Original IP Film Festival
Friday, October 30, 2026�9:30 AM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time)�Royce Hall, Rm 314

Awards Gala and Special Screening of "Leaving A Trace"
Saturday, October 31, 2026�5:00 PM - 9:00 PM�UCLA Melntiz Hall, James Bridges Theater

For more information:

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09/22/2026

08/27/2026

The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies is delighted to co-present “Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: Chinese Documentaries of the 1980s and 1990s” which will be screened at the Gardena Cinema. For information on the event, please see: https://www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17743
For tickets: https://gardenacinema.com.v2.yourcinema.co/movie/ordinary-lives-in-extraordinary-timeschinese-docs

05/22/2026

Check out UCLA doctoral student Xianda Huang's recent op-ed on the Trump-Xi Summit: https://theconversation.com/from-beef-ribs-to-a-heavenly-walk-xi-trump-summit-symbolism-underscored-american-power-and-chinese-tradition-282945?fbclid=IwY2xjawR9bfVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeLHf3gj-0t9NmIjhrQPO452FIPW3fzLc241-zSYOgf8VCbO6GQcWFmmdPYI4_aem_Atu35cW_UAEGuY6OcMV4Iw

A cultural historian of modern China explains the meaning behind some of the venue choices during President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing.

05/10/2026

https://www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17707

04/13/2026

The (Real) First Great Divergence: Citizen and Subject in Greece and China, and a Mycenaean-Shang Developmental Split
Jordan Christopher is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Loyola Marymount University.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383

04/13/2026

https://www.getty.edu/calendar/screening-of-color-and-ink/

Film about the Chinese artist Chang Dai-chien followed by a conversation with the filmmaker

04/07/2026

Four lectures at UCLA CCS this week:

The Unhistoriable: Experiments of Collective Government in Mid-imperial China and Beyond
Talk by Shoufu Yin, University of British Columbia.
Thursday, April 9, 2026�9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Pacific Time)�Royce Hall 243

Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System
Talk by Ji Li, University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Thursday, April 9, 2026�3:30 PM - 4:30 PM�UCLA Law School Room 2467

Reconfiguring Gendered Labor Regimes: Production and Social Reproduction in Transnational Semiconductor Manufacturing
Discussion with Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.
Thursday, April 9, 2026�5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific Time)�Haines 279

Judicial Territoriality: Chinese Procurators amid Institutional Reforms
Talk by Qiang Fu, University of British Columbia.
Friday, April 10, 2026�1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Pacific Time)�Bunche Hall 10383

For more information:

The Center for Chinese Studies promotes cutting-edge scholarship in all disciplines, fosters a research and teaching environment free from political and financial pressures, and makes the results of scholarly investigations available for use beyond academic circles. We aim to become the strongest in...