Facebook has taken this poster down twice - I guess extreme acts of filial piety might be a tad too spicy for the eyes
Join us for the workshop if you're in Cambridge! 4/19/24 Friday

This Thursday April 11 with Professor Mae Ngai Columbia University
Details in link below.
And please check out the lovely exhibit of Corky Lee photographs currently up at John Hope Franklin Center Duke University

“Framed painting” from Cambridge University Library’s Tea Room.

This weekend, two concerts will celebrate the life and legacy of pioneering composer Mary Lou Williams, Duke’s first artist-in-residence. Both events are free and open to the public. No tickets are required. #Duke100

So, just learning about this 'red chamber recluse,' you know, the guy from Canada who became disillusioned with accounting, and moved to Nanchang 南昌 to rent some hole in the wall and study Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦 full-time?

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This is my favorite building in Taipei: one with a tree growing through it. It’s very good example showing you how unsterile, provoking, and eclectic this city is.

Part 2 of 'The Chinese Family Romance' workshop series at Harvard University Fairbank Center, Harvard University - April 19, Friday.

Some of the students in my current graduate seminar Duke University will be presenting as well!

For the past few weeks I’ve been deep in the horror thriller - zombie apocalypse- dystopian science fiction - romance genre fiction discussion arc of my “Narrating Asia” class…and somehow this CBS News headline encapsulates them all

partial totality

One of the most glorious film endings - and featuring a solar eclipse. Red Sorghum 紅高粱 (Zhang Yimou dir, 1987), based on Mo Yan's series of novels by the same name.
#SolarEclipse #日蝕

Monday’s eclipse will be more complete than multiple eclipses viewable from Durham that are set to follow in the coming years:
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Ansel Adams, Eclipse [Camptonville, 1925]
#日蝕

Thrilled to be in conversation with Prof Mae Ngai next month on the new book 'Corky Lee's Asian America' - we will also be hosting a mini-exhibit from this collection at John Hope Franklin Center Duke University Duke APSI Duke Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program Join us on April 11!
asianpacific.duke.edu/event/corky-le…

This week, we look forward to hearing Mae Ngai (CU History Department) talk about Corky Lee, the ‘undisputed unofficial Asian American photographer laureate’ and to opening a limited exhibition of his work at the John Hope Franklin Center main gallery.
Details: asianpacific.duke.edu/event/corky-le…

Gorgeous poem (and translation) that has re-emerged from this morning's poetry discourse

Which traditional Chinese character do you like the most and why?

Anyway, I wrote about getting into classical music and why attending the Bach festival at Carnegie Hall was instrumental to me finally leaving Detroit plough.com/en/topics/cult…

Qing Ming Festival #清明 , an occasion for tomb-sweeping and remembrance, falls on April 4 this year. Once again I am far from home and unable to sweep my loved ones’ tombs; so instead, sharing a small and most familiar poem.
#everynightapoem

How do we remember a loved one who’s no longer with us and is now far away? As Du Mu paints in this poem “清明”, it’s a spiritual journey of going from a state of our soul in grief (欲斷魂) to arriving at a clearer and brighter place of peace and joy (杏花村)