Updated January 25, 2005
Maintained by Lawrence Ip,

Fall 2003 Events

Events from Spring 2006

September 4: Orientation

  • Location: 156 Dwinelle
  • Time: 7-8.30pm
  • Description:

    Come to find out what SHKCA is all about! We'll have an informal introduction and games for members to get to know each other and the club. There'll be food!

Moon Cake September 11: Mid-Autumn Festival

  • Location: Ocean Beach
  • Time: meet at 6pm, West Circle
  • Description:

    Excursion to Ocean Beach. Celebrate the Moon Festival over dinner in San Francisco. Afterwards we'll go to Ocean Beach to enjoy moon cakes around a bonfire.

September 18: Beijing Punk Rock Brain Failure

  • Speaker: Anna-Sophie Loewenberg
  • Location: 160 Dwinelle
  • Time: 8pm
  • Description:
    Screening of the documentary "China Pirates" followed by music and discussion.

    Anna-Sophie Loewenberg is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. She has written for San Francisco and international publications such as Beijing Scene Magazine, BUST, Giant Robot and Pacific Time radio on KQED. She also plays in a punk rock band, HUNBOT, in San Francisco and started Bieniu, a girl-fronted punk rock band in Beijing.

    "China Pirates" is a short documentary about China's black-market media trade in pirated and saw-gash CDs,  tapes and DVDs. Based on footage taken during her five years (1996-2001) of living and working as a journalist and punk rocker in Beijing, Anna-Sophie follows young musicians from Beijing punk bands Hang on the Box, Cold Blooded Animal and Brain Failure, and documents how pirated media has been shaping an entire generation of Chinese youth culture.

September 25: Ethnic Cultural Reflections in Dance

Joint event with Chinese Dance Theatre and the Chinese Dance Decal Class.

  • Speaker: Professor Kaiwen You and the coordinators of the Chinese Dance Decal Class.
  • Location: 258 Dwinelle
  • Time: 7-8pm
  • Description:

    Chinese culture comprises of 56 distinct ethnic groups. For centuries, the cultures, lifestyles, and perspectives of Chinese minority groups have been illustrated and expressed through the use of such art forms as dance and music. By studying their dance forms we can learn much about the distinctive lifestyle and culture of these ethnic groups.

    We will be presenting some of the dance forms of the Han people, the ethnic Chinese who make up the majority of China's population, and the Uighur people, who are predominately Muslim and live in Xinjiang Autonomous Region along the Silk Road.

    Professor You has had more than thirty years of international performance experience, and twenty years of professional experience teaching and choreographing Chinese ethnic folk dances and ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy and at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. He has won numerous international awards for teaching and choreography. He is currently an instructor for the San Francisco Chinese Folk Dance Association as well as at various other venues in the South Bay.

October 2: Yu Hua: Modern Chinese Literature

  • Speaker: Professor Andrew Jones
  • Location: 246 Dwinelle
  • Time: 7-8.30pm
  • Description:

    Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China. He finished high school during the Cultural Revolution and worked as a dentist for five years before beginning to write in 1983. He has published three novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. In 2002 Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. His novel "To Live" was awarded Italy's Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1998, and "To Live" and "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant" were named two of the last decade's ten most influential books in China. "To Live" was made into an award-winning film by acclaimed director Zhang Yimou.

    Professor Andrew Jones is in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, specializing in modern Chinese literature and sonic culture. He recently translated Yu Hua's "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant" into English. He will be talking about the book, his translation work and modern Chinese literature.

October 9: Games Night

  • Location: 246 Dwinelle
  • Time: 7 pm
  • Description:

    Take a break from midterms and homework and play some Chinese games! SHKCA will be hosting a games salon. Games will include

    • Mahjong
    • Chinese card games
    • Chinese chess
    • Go (Weiqi)
    If you don't know how to play, there will be experts on hand who will be happy to teach you the rules.

October 16: Film: Conjugation (DongCi Bian Wei)

  • Location: 174 Barrows
  • Time: 7-8.30pm
  • Description:

    Conjugation is a drama set in the aftermath of the June 4th 1989 incident in Tiananmen Square. A young couple are trying to set up house together, without official permission. Everyone in their circle is heavily affected by the protests and the aftermath – one person is still missing – and they deal with it in different ways: throwing away an academic career for a small business, leaving for studies in the USA, rebelling at a factory. The film incorporates a great deal of poetry from the contemporary writer Haizi (who killed himself in March 1989).

    In Mandarin with English subtitles.

October 30: Movie Night: Shaolin Soccer

  • Location: 205 Dwinelle
  • Time: 7pm
  • Description:

    Come enjoy snacks while watching the recent Hong Kong comedy/martial arts film, "Shaolin Soccer".

Monday November 3: Beijing Punk Rock Comes to Berkeley!

Thursday November 13: Journalism in China

  • Location: 246 Dwinelle
  • Time: 7pm
  • Speaker: Xiaoyan Pan and Zhang Ping, Visiting Scholars, Graduate School of Journalism
  • Description:

    Pan Xiaoyan is a daughter of journalist and had dreamed of being a reporter and writer since her childhood. She fulfilled her dream when, armed with a journalism degree from Fudan University, she joined Baosteel Daily, a major daily newspaper in Shanghai, as a reporter in 1997. She won several national awards for her coverage of the life of women workers who were laid-off when the out-dated state industries collapsed.

    In 2000, she helped launch the business journal SmartFortune, which is the first magazine to focus on Human Resource Management in China. She is currently its vice editor-in-chief. Xiaoyan's first book, Office Politics, was published in Beijing this year.

    Xiaoyan is interested in media management, especially the difficulties associated with striking a balance between news ethics and market incentives. She is also interested in religion, ethnicity and press freedom.

    Zhang Ping, an 11-year veteran of newspaper journalism in China, was the former editorial department director of Southern Weekend, widely considered the most ardent voice for social justice and political reform in China. Before that, he was with the Chengdu Economic Daily, the first market-oriented publication in the country.

    Zhang Ping is interested in getting a thorough understanding of the potential role that journalism could play in the modernization process that transforms a developing and oppressed society. He is also interested in literature and history.

Wednesday November 19:The Banker's Honor: Shanghai in the 20th Century

  • Location: 51 Evans
  • Time: 7pm
  • Speaker: Professor Wen-hsin Yeh, Department of History
  • Description:
    Professor Wen-hsin Yeh from the Department of History will talk about the connection between wealth and respectability. The financial elite of Shanghai in early 20th century had a particularly hard time earning respect because their profession was often associated with compromises with foreign interests — the betrayal of patriotism in an era of colonial power and international warfare. In the 1990s, Chinese bankers regained the honor they had lost in the 1940s. The talk will focus on the rise and fall of the social and political fortunes of Chinese bankers.

Saturday December 6: Dim Sum and Asian Art Museum

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Description:

    Enjoy dim sum in San Francisco followed by a visit to the newly opened Asian Art Museum.

Past Events:

Events from Fall 2005

Events from Spring 2005

Events from Fall 2004

Events from Spring 2004

Events from Fall 2003

Events from Spring 2003

Events from Fall 2002

Some events from Spring 2002