“Repatriate:00” is a debut of Kalen Wing Ki Lee’s artistic practice on notion and experience of emotional migration in the thick of movements of body, desire, human geography, sovereignty and ...

The Imaginary of Disobedience is a one-day workshop to be held at Duke University on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 19, 2026. The workshop aims to conceptualize the lineaments ...

Film Screening: “Dìdi” (Sean Wang, 2024, 91 min, USA, English and Mandarin with English subtitles, DCP) In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable ...

** 6-6:30pm, Curators’ Walk-Through ** Registration for this event is kindly requested (but not required) at: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AEc1aSoAScnoge Join us for the closing reception of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930-31,” an exhibition ...

**Jiang Nengjie, 2015, China, Chinese with English subtitles** Introduction by Professor Kang Liu (AMES). Following the screening, stay for a conversation with director Jiang Nengjie, moderated by Professor Liu. Synopsis: ...

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China “Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020” (Mengqi Zhang, 2023, 190 min, China, Chinese w/ English ...

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China “Luo Luo’s Future” (Luo Luo, 2024, 69 min, China, Chinese w/ English subtitles, ...

Join us for the opening of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930 – 31,” a new exhibition presented by Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, ...

Please join the author of the award-winning memoir, as we discuss Chinese food, Detroit, and family.

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China “The Death of Baijiashan” (Liu Xiaoqian, 2024, 110 min, China, Chinese w/ English ...

**Changfu Chang, 2025, 80 minutes, USA, in English with English subtitles** Join APSI and the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program for a special screening of a powerful new documentary ...

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China New Moon Chapter One (Li Xinyue/New Moon, 2024, 157 min, China, in Chinese ...

“Cloud” [“Kuraudo”] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024, 123 min, Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, DCP) A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Cure”, “Pulse”), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young ...

“Ran” (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, 162 min, France/Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, DCP) “Spectacular! Among the most thrilling movie experiences a viewer can have!” – Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times ...

Program: Luna Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission Luna explores the truest form of man. Choreographed by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, dancers trek and search in the mountain mist under the moonlight, ...

This talk emerges out of a chapter to be published in the multi-author volume titled Missing  Bodies’ Embodied Histories: Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Women in Postwar Japan. The chapter examines ...

FACES OF SEOUL (Gina Kim, 2009, 93 min, South Korea and USA, Korean and English w/English subtitles, Digital) — Virtual Q&A to follow with director Gina Kim FACES OF SEOUL ...

The rise of China and its great power competition with the U.S. will be one of the defining issues of our generation. But to understand modern China, one has to ...

Directed by Hu Sanshou, 2024, 115 min, China, in Chinese dialects w/ Chinese & English subtitles Following the screening, stay for Q&A with director Hu Sanshou, moderated by Professor Guo-Juin ...

Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance, will share her approaches to creating large-scale multimedia, immersive, and interactive dance experiences, heavily focused on her research in communities, created specifically ...

WITHIN THESE WALLS (Lenora Lee & Tatsu Aoki, 2024, 76 min, USA, English, Digital) In association with Lenora Lee Dance, Lenora Lee Productions, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Films, and Asian ...

**Directed by MinCheol Wang, 2022, 120 min, South Korea, in Korean w/English subtitles** About the film: Kim Jeong-ho, head veterinarian in Cheongju Zoo, dreams of turning his zoo into the ...

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, 2000, 98 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese, Shanghainese, French, and Spanish w/English subtitles, DCP) — Q&A to follow with Giorgio Biancorosso, Professor of Music ...

TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (Soi Cheang, 126 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese w/ English subtitles, DCP) “A runaway hit in Hong Kong, where it became the second-highest grossing domestic ...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark, 1991, 135 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese w/ English subtitles, DCP) — Introduction by Prof. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) ...

In April 1986, archaeologists discovered seven “maps” on four wooden boards from a tomb at the site of Fangmatan in the modern-day city of Tianshui, Gansu province. While it is ...

HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES (Pat Boonnitipat, 2024, 125 min, Thailand, Thai w/ English subtitles, DCP) — Introduced by Prof. Ara Wilson (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies/Cultural Anthropology) ...

About the film: Winner of the 2023 Suphannahong National Film Award for best documentary. The neighborhood of Sam Yan in Bangkok, Thailand, is mostly filled with new shopping malls and ...

​Together with the department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, APSI is hosting a screening of “Invisible Nation” (看不見的國家), a 2024 documentary from award-winning filmmaker Vanessa Hope that shines an ...

About the film This documentary, directed by Beijing-based writer and filmmaker Xu Xing, tells the love story of a married couple against the backdrop of political events in China since ...

The event begins at 7PM (EDT) with opening remarks by Professor Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology). Following the documentary screening, stay for a conversation with producers Jewher Ilham and Janice Englehart, ...

Film Screening: “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” (Radu Jude, 2023, 164 min, Romania, Romanian with English subtitles, DCP) As he proved with his scandalous, ...

Film Screening: “Moving” [“Ohikkoshi”] (Shinji Sômai, 1993 (restored 2023), 125 min, Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, DCP) When her parents split and her father Kenichi moves out of their family ...

Film Screening: “Evil Does Not Exist” [Aku wa sonzai shinai] (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2023, 106 min, Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, DCP) — Introduced by Prof. Kimberly Hassel (Asian & Middle ...

APSI’s summer book club is back by popular demand. The final event in our three-book series is the award-winning I Hotel, by Karen Tei Yamashita. A 2010 National Book Award ...

APSI’s summer book club is back by popular demand. The second book in our three-book cycle is travel writer and professor Michael Meyer’s In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and ...

APSI’s summer book club is back by popular demand. This year, Professor Eileen Chow begins our three-book sequence with Fuschia Dunlop’s Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, ...

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! In 2017, choreographer Lai Hung-Chung founded Hung Dance, with the name Hung symbolizing the spirit of soaring freedom. Born ...

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! In 2017, choreographer Lai Hung-Chung founded Hung Dance, with the name Hung symbolizing the spirit of soaring freedom. Born ...

This touching documentary reveals a unique way of life that is on the verge of extinction due to changes in tradition and external threats. Over the course of six years, ...

Filmmaker Yun HWANG began making a documentary about tidal flats in the Saemanggeum estuary, on the West coast of South Korea. Her work came to a halt in 2006 with ...