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Michael Berry (白睿文)

@bairuiwen.bsky.social
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2023 Guggenheim Fellow; UCLA Prof of Chinese Lit & Film. Director, Center for Chinese Studies. Author and translator. michael-berry.com www.alc.ucla.edu/person/michael-berry/

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... @uclalibrary.bsky.social
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
新电影《我们不是什么》UCLA特别放映:贵宾:邱礼涛(导演)、江𤒹生(演员)、陳毅燊(演员) An Evening with Herman Yau: Featuring a Special Screening of We're Nothing At All; special guests Anson Kong and Ansonbean 座位有限,早点报名:https://www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17766 October 9, 2026
;6:30 - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Honored to have HOSPITAL selected as one of the Best Chinese Science Fiction books by Mingwei Song x.com/five_books/s...
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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations (@five_books) on X
NEW: The best Chinese science fiction, recommended by Professor Mingwei Song of @Wellesley. "It’s subversive, in the sense that it’s not giving us a common accepted understanding of reality." https:/...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today in Los Angeles: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: Chinese Documentaries of the 1980s and '90s m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A pleasure to speak to the Los Angeles Times about AI and Chinese filmmaking. 
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you are in Los Angeles this weekend, please consider coming out to our retrospective series of Chinese documentary films from the late 1980s and early 1990s, curated by film critic and programmer Sam C. Mac.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
昨天很高兴主持《八仙》映后的座谈会!
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Rare chance to see these Chinese documentaries from the late 1980s and early 1990s on the big screen. “Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: Chinese Documentaries of the 1980s and '90s” Saturday, September 12, 2026 11:00 AM - 9:00 PM Gardena Cinema 1 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
一路走好
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies is delighted to co-present “Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: Chinese Documentaries of the 1980s and 1990s” at the Gardena Cinema: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... For tickets: gardenacinema.com.v2.yourcinema.co/movie/ordina...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A pleasure to speak to NPRs Hear and Now about the recent Chinese spy thriller Silent Honor: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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Popular TV drama about Communist spies in Taiwan in 1949 weaves history with Beijing's point of view
"Silent Honor" is a popular Chinese television show, a drama based on real events.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
亞洲協會中文圖書評論(China Books Review)2025年的夏白芳圖書獎(Baifang Schell Book Prize)獲獎名單公布了,文學類的頭等獎頒給《奔跑的火光》(方方著、白睿文譯)。特別感謝亞洲協會和評審團對該作品的肯定。我也替方方老師感到特別高興,她不只是天生的「講故事的人」,一下子把讀者給抓住了,她的小說還處處流露作者對世界的細膩觀察、對社態的解剖、對生活裡種種「不公」現象的控訴。謝謝方方老師給我們帶路。 chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/23/2... asiasociety.org/china-books-...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
From the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Bookshelf:
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“Will the Real Jia Zhangke Please Stand Up?” Los Angeles Review of Books (link in comments)
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
UCLA CCS this week: Shoufu Yin, (UBC): "The Unhistoriable" Ji Li, (UC, Irvine): "Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System" Ya-Wen Lei, (Harvard):"Reconfiguring Gendered Labor Regimes" Qiang Fu, (UBC): "Judicial Territoriality" See: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/events
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Events .::. UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
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 s...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thanks to China Books Review, Asia Society and all the judges for shortlisting Fang Fang's The Running Flame and Soft Burial for the Baifang Schell Book Prize. It is an honor to be recognized alongside the other authors and translators. chinabooksreview.com/2026/03/31/s...
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Shortlist: 2025 Literature Award | China Books Review
Presenting the jury’s shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Literature from or on China or the Sinophone World.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump’s new Truth social profile picture (left) and “Nuke”, (right) a violent, psychoathic and delisional Marvel comics villain from the 1980s who believes he is still at war even though it has long ended.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up: Translating Eco-Literature into Virtual Reality Writer Wu Ming-yi and Filmmaker Singing Chen in Person! Monday, March 9, 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up: Translating Eco-Literature into Virtual Reality
A talk about VR film "The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters" by Wu Ming-Yi (Writer) and Singing Chen (Director).
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
OMG, it is officially called “Operation Epic Fury”!? That is literally what my son would have called an imaginary superhero battle royal when he was six years old. 🤦
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Check out this great series of Chinese cinema at UCLA this winter: www.cinema.ucla.edu/series/echoe...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
灣區的朋友,我明早北上參加BACCS Cinema主辦的灣區文化沙龍。這次畢贛導演也要過來,我們將討論他的電影生涯。 報名詳情請參考: baccs.org/ex-bigan-ber...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie Film Screening of Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis Screening and discussion with film director Jiang Nengjie Tuesday, November 25, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ucla Melnitz Hall Darren Star Theater www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Many thanks to Paul French for taking the time and care to review The Running Flame and Soft Burial by Fang Fang for the Mekong Review: mekongreview.com/silencing/
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Silencing - Mekong Review
For English language readers outside China, these translations of The Running Flame and Soft Burial help to reframe Fang Fang as a writer of more than Wuhan Diary.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Protean Assemblages: The Literary Invention of Han Taiwanese Settlerhood in the Postwar Pacific Yu-ting Huang, (East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University) Thursday, November 20, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"The Question of Slavery under the Qin" & "Xiao as Moral Agency: Filial Daughters and Family in Late Imperial China" Talks by Robin D.S. Yates & Grace Fong Monday, November 17, 2025 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time) Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Protean Assemblages: The Literary Invention of Han Taiwanese Settlerhood in the Postwar Pacific
Talk by Yu-ting Huang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Going Vertical: The Vertical Short Revolution Friday, November 14, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Main Conference Room (room 11360) www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
UCLA中国研究中心本周的活动: 11月10日:陈利 (多伦多大学)专题演讲「Tracing Invisible Power and Technocratic Governance in Qing Archives」 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... 11月12日: Film Screening: BEHEMOTH with director Zhao Liang 纪录片《悲兮魔兽》放映以及 赵亮导演映后对谈 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
11/10 @ UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Tracing Invisible Power and Technocratic Governance in Qing Archives
Talk by Li Chen, J.D. (UIUC) and Ph.D. (Columbia), Associate Professor of Chinese History at the University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment at the Faculty of Law.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis. Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Today! The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis. Friday, October 31, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Sammy Lee Lectures by Tristram R. Kidder, (Wash U, Saint Louis) 1) The Value of the Anthropocene Concept 10/31, 
1-3PM Bunche 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... 2) Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 11/1, 
1- 3PM Fowler Lenart Auditorium www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington. 10/30, 
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China
Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Sammy Lee Lecture w/ Tristram R. Kidder (Wash U, Saint Louis). The Value of the Anthropocene Concept 10/31; 
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Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 11/1; 
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Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Goodreads “The Privileged” (by Wu Xiaole) e-book promotional giveaway www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for The Privileged: A Novel by Wu Xiaole Nov 17-Dec 15, 2025
100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 17-Dec 15, 2025. Enter for a chance to win a Kindle edition of ''The Privileged'', the latest novel fr...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
FYI: Print copies of my book Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is now on sale for 50% at the Duke University Press website if you use the code: FALL25
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis. Saturday, November 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum - Lenart Auditorium www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis. Friday, October 31, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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The Value of the Anthropocene Concept: Ancient China as a Test Case
Sammy Lee Seminar by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington. Thursday, October 30, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China
Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If you are on campus at UCLA, this starts in a few minutes: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Transformation and Continuity of Confucianism
Talk by Mimi Pi 皮迷迷, associate professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China. She is a visiting scholar at Harvard Fairbank center for 2025-26 academic year.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
我在《字裡行間:華人作家對談錄》跟陳栢青的對談被誠品轉載: meet.eslite.com/tw/tc/articl...
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恐怖片與小說靈感的特殊連結?《字裡行間》訪談作家陳栢青的創作歷程 - 迷誠品
《字裡行間:華人作家對談錄.台灣卷》中集結八位文學界廣為人知的著名作家,包含白先勇、林懷民、龍應台、駱以軍、吳明益、舞鶴、陳栢青、陳思宏,透過深入訪談,探索這些創作者的靈感來源,感受不同作家書寫題材的差異,呈現台灣文學圈多元且豐富的創作風貌
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This week at UCLA CCS: "Transformation and Continuity of Confucianism: A Case Study of Kang Youwei's Confucian Reform" Lecture by Mimi Pi 皮迷迷, (associate professor, Capital Normal University in Beijing). 10/23/25, 
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Haines Hall 118 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Transformation and Continuity of Confucianism
Talk by Mimi Pi 皮迷迷, associate professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China. She is a visiting scholar at Harvard Fairbank center for 2025-26 academic year.
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This week at UCLA CCS A Buddha Descends Thursday, 10/ 16, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Pacific Time)
Young Hall CS76 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... Havana Divas - Film Screening and Discussion Friday, October 17, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Kaplan A26 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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A Buddha Descends
Talk by Prof. Scott Pearce, Western Washington University.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I published two pieces on women in China this week! First, a review essay @chinabooksreview.com on two Fang Fang novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame (tr. Michael Berry). Gendered oppression has persisted during the socialist period and capitalist reforms, despite the CCP's promise of liberation.
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No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Storm Under the Sun: An Afternoon with Louisa Wei Monday, October 13, 2025 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM Main Conference Room (room 11360) UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library 《紅日風暴》 导演:魏時煜,彭小蓮 年代: 2007 片长: 137分钟 类型: 纪录片 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“When an era sheds a speck of dust it might not seem like much, but when it falls upon the shoulders of an individual it feels like a mountain.” — Fang Fang This is Banned Books Week, an annual event that celebrates the work of writers whose voices have been suppressed. 1
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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"The Party’s tight control on historical narrative has rendered much of the pain afflicted in the name of liberation—or after liberation had ostensibly been achieved—unspeakable." For @chinabooksreview.com, I review two Fang Fang novels: Soft Burial and The Running Flame (tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social)
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No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Yangyang Cheng is one of them most astute, insightful, and sensitive writers chronicling the political, cultural, and technological life of China today. I am so honored that she took the time to read and review these two novels by Fang Fang. chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
For @npr.org, I review Lou Ye's acclaimed Covid movie "An Unfinished Film," its courage in venturing into the forbidden, and limitations in what it seems unable or unwilling to confront. The Chinese people deserve better, more honest stories. The work remains unfinished. www.npr.org/2025/10/04/g...
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