The Auspicious Culture of Beijing-China People
Location:The living room of Ullens Contemporary Art Center, 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District
Guest:Duan Baolin (Professor of Chinese Department of Peking University), Wang Juan (Professor of Folk Literature and Folklore of Chinese Department of Peking University), etc.
In addition to the "beaming" in the window grilles, the "fish every year" on the dining table, the "wealth and peace" on the doors and windows of ancient buildings, the "crane deer Changchun" on antique porcelain, the familiar dragon totem and wolf totem, the lion on the Sri Lankan national flag, the "jade cabbage" in the Forbidden City in Taipei, the 9,999 rooms in the legendary Forbidden City, and the "jade cabbage" frequently appearing in the Qing Palace drama. The system of "auspicious culture" is huge. In China people’s life, "auspiciousness" is everywhere. It is inseparable from auspicious culture for spring planting and summer harvest, getting married and having children, celebrating birthdays, opening for business, taking exams in scientific research, promotion, moving to a new house and other major events related to life. What is "auspicious culture" and how did it come into being? How is "auspicious culture" inextricably linked with totem culture and witchcraft culture? How to interpret many mascots and auspicious patterns, and what interesting stories are behind them? What kind of philosophy is contained in "auspicious culture" and what kind of relationship does it have with Confucian culture? What kind of "auspicious" factors are contained in the "annual custom culture"? How to treat "auspicious culture" from the perspective of world culture … The guests will explain.
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00.
Location:Floor 3, Aegean Shopping Center, No.12 Qisheng Middle Street, Xibahe, Chaoyang District
Guest:Miao Wei (deputy editor-in-chief of Sanlian Life Weekly), Fan Ye (Spanish teacher and translator in Peking University) and Bao Huiyi (Ph.D. student in medieval literature in English Department of Dublin University).
This is the end of Europe, which was called Hyperion in ancient times ("winter land"), and it is isolated by waves on all sides. This is the home of swamps, thorns, ruins, dense fog and cliffs. It is a cold fairyland where dwarf fairies and elves steal human children at night. It is the hometown of Ye Zhi, an illusionist, and book of kells, which was born in the hands of angels. Today, it is a country of manuscripts of poetry, literature and medieval painting, and it is also a silent hill like an empty city, which can accommodate people with different endowments to settle their lives. "Everything that really matters gives birth to the abyss of emptiness and silence between things and thoughts." Bao Huiyi, the author of "The Chronicle of Emerald Island", Miao Wei, the writer, and Fan Ye, the scholar, visited the one-way space together and chatted about the literature and human feelings on the Irish Green Island, their respective island experiences, and everything else born in silence.
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 14:30-17:00.
Location:Between the lines on the 1st floor of Confucius Institute Headquarters, No.129 Deshengmenwai Street, Xicheng District.
Guest:Xiong Peiyun (critic), Daxian (writer and poet), Su Xiaohe (financial writer and poet), Zhu Xuedong (senior media person) and Shen Xing (moderator).
In the new book "I am the Coming Day", Xiong Peiyun regained his poetry. He believes that after suffering, people have no reason to forget poetry. Therefore, his poems bring readers not only the illusion of the world and poetic aesthetics, but also deep thinking about love, justice, media and human destiny. A book, a reunion with poetry, Xiong Peiyun and his friends share the rationality and poetry in life with readers, and find the long-lost breath of the 1980s.
Beijing: What are we talking about when we talk about ideal readers?
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 19:00-21:00
Location:One-way space on the third floor of Aegean Shopping Center, No.12 Qisheng Middle Street, Xibahe, Chaoyang District
Guest:Wen Zhen (writer), Zhang Wei (deputy editor-in-chief of GQ magazine), Liang Hong (writer and scholar) and A Yi (writer).
"We Fall in Love in Art Gallery at Night" is the latest collection of short stories by Wen Zhen, the youngest new winner of Lao She Literature Award. Wen Zhen’s novels have been praised by many people. A Yi said that her novels are "as bright as Hemingway and as cruel as Zhang Ailing". On the evening of January 24th, Wen Zhen visited One-way Space and shared her writing with the guests.
Beijing ︱ Mu Tao: How was the cultural ecology of Chang ‘an City tempered in Han Dynasty?
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 9:30-12:00.
Location:Multi-function Hall of China Modern Literature Museum, No.45 Literature Museum Road, Chaoyang District
Speaker:Mu Tao (famous essayist, executive deputy editor of Meiwen magazine)
Mu Tao lived in Xi ‘an, so let him lead everyone back to the Han Dynasty and review the cultural ecology of Chang ‘an.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 15:00-17:00
Location:PAGEONE, Building 2, South Campus, No.19 Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District
Speaker:Yoshii Ren (Japanese Chinese writer) and Zhang Yueran (writer)
The Four Seasons Lunch by Japanese Chinese writer Yoshinori, who lives in Beijing, introduces us to many practical methods of making lunch dishes, so that we busy people can have leisure to stop and enjoy a healthy and beautiful lunch time, and let us begin to reflect on our lifestyle and the subtle relationship with our families. On the afternoon of January 25th, Yoshii will meet Zhang Yueran and everyone in the New Year, and talk about cooking and literature from their own perspectives.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 15:00-17:00
Location:Wansheng Bookstore, No.59-1 Chengfu Road, Haidian District
Guest:Liu Junning (scholar), Liu Suli (Wansheng Bookstore operator, scholar-type calligrapher)
If the so-called "conservatives" in Europe and America are liberalism, it seems difficult to find this tradition in China tradition, and "conservatism" is often stigmatized in China’s mass context. So what exactly is "conservatism" and how does it relate to China tradition and the present? Two guests who have deep research on conservatism and liberalism in China will have a wonderful discussion around this topic.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 15:00-17:00
Location:One-way space on the third floor of Aegean Shopping Center, No.12 Qisheng Middle Street, Xibahe, Chaoyang District
Speaker:Ruan Yizhong (photographer)
Photography is not only an interest, but also a belief. Ruan Yizhong’s Seven Questions on Photography Aesthetics was published in 1980s, which became the first book of photography that influenced generations of Chinese. In the book, Ruan Yizhong visited Tsun-shing Chen, a professor in Tsinghua University, Taiwan Province, Han Baode, a famous architect and architect, and Huang Chunming, a heavyweight novelist in Taiwan Province, and started the ultimate inquiry of photography aesthetics with cross-border dialogue. Classic return, first share.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 15:00-17:30.
Location:Yufeng Library and Chongwen Hall, Floor 2, New World Woman Department Store, No.7 Dongmaomachang Street, Dongcheng District
Guest:Zhan Jiang (Professor, Department of International Journalism and Communication, Beijing Foreign Studies University), Liu Xiaoying (Professor, Communication Research Institute, Communication University of China), Su Xiaoling (Editor-in-Chief of Beijing Influence Think Tank) and Yan Ying (Professor, Shanxi University)
Today, the seventieth anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war, Japanese militarism is showing signs of resurgence, the government is trying to amend the constitution, and right-wing public opinion is rampant. The relationship between news reports and the fate of the country has become a proposition that we cannot but reflect deeply. In view of this, we invite famous scholars such as Zhan Jiang, Liu Xiaoying and Su Xiaoling to share and discuss this topic with readers.
Beijing-The Road of Image and the Awakening of Painting
Time:January 29th (Thursday) 14:00-16:00.
Location:UCCA lecture hall, Ullens Contemporary Art Center, 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District
Guest:Dai Zhuoqun (independent curator and art critic), Wang Yin (artist) and Xie Nanxing (artist)
A dialogue to discuss painting from the perspective of image, a forum on painting ontology. Curator Dai Zhuoqun will tell his observation and speculation on current painting problems based on two topics: first, respond to the relationship between current painting practice and China painting tradition through images; As a self-sufficient painting system that has lasted for thousands of years, the history of ancient painting in China has neither realistic tradition nor abstract tradition: the spirit is written by form and the Tao is carried by things, all of which are based on concreteness and image, and the ontology of painting has never been shaken by external factors. The second question to be discussed is the great changes that painting has faced in the past 100 years, especially the impact of the double impact of western learning and becoming a tool on today’s painting. The reason why the two issues are discussed alternately is to break the artificial barrier between the so-called traditional painting and the current painting, and take the image as the entry point to face the painting itself.
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00.
Location:Sinan Literature House, No.505 Fuxing Middle Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Cheng Yongxin (executive editor of Harvest), Jin Yucheng (executive deputy editor of Shanghai Literature), Fu Xing (executive editor of Germination) and Li Qigang (executive editor of Germination).
Shanghai has always been an important town of China literature, which has had a far-reaching influence on the development of China literature. In this issue of Sinan Reading Club, the editors-in-chief of three important literary magazines in contemporary China, Harvest, Shanghai Literature and Germination, were invited to have face-to-face communication with literary lovers and talk about those things when they were editors-in-chief of literary magazines.
Shanghai-The Third Series of "Walking in the City" —— The Centennial Changes of Shanghai Church
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 15:00-17:00
Location:2nd Floor, YWCA Building, No.133 Yuanmingyuan Road, Huangpu District
Speaker:Zhou Jin (Ph.D. in Architecture, Tongji University) and Tang Weijie (Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Tongji University)
Shanghai introduced Christianity more than 400 years ago, and it is still the city with the largest number of churches in China, with more than 300 new and old churches. The long history and special cultural accumulation reflect the unique cultural connotation of Shanghai style. Dr. Zhou Jin will tell us how these churches come to us step by step, and how they gradually fade away from our vision with the process of urbanization. The stories are brilliant. After a hundred years of vicissitudes, it was condensed between more than an hour of lectures.
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 14:00-16:30.
Location:D6 Space of Shanghai Drama Art Center, No.228 Anfu Road, Xuhui District
Guest:Cao Lei (famous director and actor), Wu Xiaojun (professor of Shanghai Theatre Academy), Liu Xuyuan (scholar and critic) and Zhou Limin (deputy director and critic of Ba Jin’s former residence).
In 2014, the 110th anniversary of Chekhov’s death, Shanghai Translation Publishing House published a four-volume Complete Works of Chekhov’s Dramas, which was the first time in China to present Chekhov’s dramatic works in the form of "complete works" to pay tribute to this great playwright and world-class literary master. 2015 is the 155th anniversary of the birth of this literary master, and the Shanghai Drama Art Center will continue to stage his masterpiece Uncle Vanya, and the sharing party about his drama art has moved from Beijing to Shanghai. On the afternoon of January 24th, let’s get together in the name of commemoration and tribute, read Chekhov and discover Chekhov.
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 15:00-17:00
Location:Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, No.200 Huayuangang Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Li Tiangang (Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Fudan University) and Wu Liang (critic)
The Victorian Age (1837-1901) was the most glorious period of the British Empire. Even in the heyday of economy, military, politics and culture, Britain and Europe did not despise China culture, which was shown in the British copperplate prints on the theme of China in the 19th century. In the lecture, two scholars and artists who are familiar with the history of cultural exchange between China and the West analyze this era one by one, combining with many works in the published Impression of the City of the Qing Empire: British Copper Prints in the 19th Century. They will discuss from different aspects that the production of a nation’s culture for another nation actually relies on the media (prints in newspapers, magazines and books) to communicate through artistic and cultural means. By analyzing the media industry in London, England, we can know that copper engraving, as a part of commercial culture, is not only a new media in the 19th century, but also a Victorian cultural communication. In the 21st century, it has become a classic art of mankind and a museum collection.
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00.
Location:Moca shanghai in Gate 7 of People’s Park, No.231 Nanjing West Road, Huangpu District.
Guest:Yinghao Huang (documentary director), Zhang Wei (documentary director), Bing Wang (documentary director), Jin Ying (documentary director), etc.
With the change of time, many traditional cuisines are gradually fading out of our sight. The gourmet movie Taste China tells the story of the craftsman behind the cuisine through the lens for the first time. Some of them insist on using the ancient method of well salt, some concentrate on making tofu coats soaked in spring water in their hometown, and some even make the most elastic Chaozhou beef balls by constantly beating them by hand. These challenges to the taste of China on the tip of the tongue stem from craftsmen’s persistence in traditional cooking and production techniques.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 14:00-16:00
Location:Multifunctional Hall, 6th Floor, Shanghai Ancient Books Bookstore, No.401 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Mao Jian (Professor, Department of Chinese as a Foreign Language, East China Normal University), Luo Gang (Professor, Department of Chinese as a Foreign Language, East China Normal University), Liu Yongsheng (Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts) and Cai Xiaorong (Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University).
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 14:00-16:00
Location:Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, No.200 Huayuangang Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Jiang Qinggong (designer) and Tang Weijie (associate professor, School of Humanities, Tongji University)
What kind of visual appearance will "social production" have in contemporary China, especially in a city like Shanghai? This lecture will cut into the above topics from a special interface-the trace of words. Since modern times, the word "Zi" has been endowed with unique energy in the historical time and space of Shanghai, and it has also generated extremely diverse forms. Printing, commerce, media, technology, capital, revolution, advertising, consumption, design, production … Every force field will leave traces of the word running in it.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 14:00-16:00
Location:Shanghai Long Art Museum (West Coast Pavilion), No.3398 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District
Speaker:Le Rong (Deputy Director and Researcher of Shanghai Luxun Memorial Hall)
In 1930s, Lu Xun made outstanding contributions to the healthy development of new woodcuts in China. He edited and selected albums, organized "woodcut workshops" and held related exhibitions, and also kept close contact with artists. The speaker will explain Chen Yanqiao’s life, creation, his connection with Lu Xun and the left-wing culture in China.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 15:00-17:00
Location:No.383 Tianhe Road, Tianhe District, taikoo hui Shopping Mall, No.383, the upper floor of the subway.
Guest:Chen Yan (translator) and Dai Xinwei (poet and media person)
Over the past 500 years, more than 100 yuppies have pursued books wave after wave, thrilling rare book auctions, amazing anecdotes about tales of mystery, and lingering and meaningful book lovers-gentle and crazy dancing, just because of human eternal love for books. The most influential classic of calligraphy in the 20th century, Elegant Madness, was written by Basbain, the authority of western calligraphy, and it depicts the group of ancient and modern book collectors in a panoramic view, paying tribute to the book lovers in the world. In this lecture, Chen Yan, the Chinese translator of the book, and Dai Xinwei, a media person, will be guests together to talk about their interesting reading and book collection as book lovers, and share stories inside and outside the book.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 19:30-21:30
Location:No.383 Tianhe Road, Tianhe District, taikoo hui Shopping Mall, No.383, the upper floor of the subway.
Guest:North Island (poet), Chen Dongdong (poet), Liang Xiaoman (poet, poetry translator), etc.
Poems for Children was personally selected by the poet Kitajima. Fifty-seven poets from different countries and 101 new poems of different styles compiled their own short poems which were most suitable for children to read and comprehend. On January 25th, Chen Dongdong, a representative of North Island and the third generation of poets, and Liang Xiaoman, a young poet translator, will come to Guangzhou to listen to "Poems for Adults" written by small poets in Sky City in person and share their reading and creation with parents and readers.
Time:January 25th (Sunday) 19:30-21:30
Location:289 Art Space, No.289 Guangzhou Avenue Central, Yuexiu District
Speaker:Tan Jinhua (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Wuyi University)
In the Confucian cultural circle, where the concept of mansion is attached great importance, traditional architectural collections already have a hot market. Ma Yun took care of the old gardens by the West Lake, and Deng Wendi returned to Beijing to set up a quadrangle … In Jeonju, South Korea, which was certified as an "international slow city", 800 old Korean houses not only rose to sky-high prices, but also affected the development of the whole city through collection, restoration and functional reconstruction. In our China?
Appreciation of Taipei Man by Taiwan Province writer Bai Xianyong.
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 13:30-16:00.
Location:Jiangsu Writers’ Works Museum, 1st floor, Nanjing Library, Daxing Palace, No.189 Zhongshan East Road, Xuanwu District
Bai Xianyong, a writer in Taiwan Province, is familiar with his person and writings. He spent his childhood in the mainland, and his memories of this time were transplanted to a group of "Taibei people" who came to Taiwan Province from the mainland. This relatively complex humanistic background created another exploration in his literary creation: the estranged connection between people and their native land. Elegance, abundance, nostalgia, and interest are all just the spread of the statement. The novel is written in a traditional way. Between the lines, a prosperous and lonely "past" slowly unfolds: not only the life itself at that time, but also his unique thinking.
Nanjing: A Humorous Analysis of the Unknown Art History by the Goddess of Western Art History
Time:January 24th (Saturday) 14:00-15:30
Location:Multifunctional Hall of Jinling Library, No.158 Leshan Road, jianye district
Speaker:Qi Si (Editor-in-Chief of Art Circle)
The History of Gossip Art tells the little-known privacy of famous artists, penetrates the vast literature and pushes the artist’s real life and inner world, and digs the secrets in the depths of people’s hearts. Although it is all about art and gossip, it is about people’s hearts and lives in reality. Qi Si’s gossip and stories are extremely full of vitality. In her stories, there are beauty who is greedy for money, hero who is lustful, poet Byron who carries the gene of liar and killer, princess Sisi who is troubled by the problem of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and Benigni who disfigures her lover because of love and hate …