MCLC: Tiananmen 25 Years On

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Ena Schlorff <schlorff at umich.edu>
Subject: Tiananmen 25 Years On
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The Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan presents:
The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting ~ Tiananmen 25 Years On

A  three-day retrospective event to mark the 25th Anniversary of the
Tiananmen Student Movement of 1989.   All events are free and open to the
public.

http://www.ii.umich.edu/ccs

Film Screening:

Saturday, April 12, 2014:  "Gate of Heavenly Peace"

6:00pm-9:00pm:  Film Screening

9:00pm: Student-led discussion and reception
Auditorium A, Angell Hall
435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

During the spring of 1989, nightly news accounts filmed in Tiananmen
Square in Beijing enthralled viewers worldwide as they watched the largest
popular demonstration in modern Chinese history unfold. "The Gate of
Heavenly Peace," a riveting and explosive three-hour documentary by
directors Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, revisits these events and
explores the complex political process that led to the protests and
eventual Beijing massacre of June 4, 1989.

(Entrance to the building on Saturday evening is usually through the
"Fishbowl" area of Haven Hall which faces east toward the diag and the U-M
Hatcher Graduate Library).

Poetry Reading:

Monday, April 14, 2014:  Poetry Reading by Yang Lian - "1989"
6:00pm:  Reception in the Commons Area of UMMA
7:00pm:  Poetry Reading ~ Stern Auditorium of UMMA
University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
525 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Yang Lian is best known as a poet, but he also writes prose, literary
criticism and art criticism. His work, which comprises half a score of
poetry collections and two volumes of prose, has been translated into over
twenty languages.  It includes "Dead in Exile" (1989), "Masks & Crocodile"
(1990), "Non-person Singular" (1995), "Yi" (2002), "Notes of a Blissful
Ghost" (2002) and "Concentric Circles" (2006).  He is regarded as one of
the most representative voices of present-day Chinese literature.

He is currently working with Kelly Askew, Director of the U-M African
Studies Center, and a formerly exiled Kenyan poet Abdilatif Abdalla, on
translating poetry composed in various dialects of Swahili into English
and from English into dialect forms of Chinese.  This event will be
moderated by Professor San Duanmu, U-M Department of Linguistics.

Sponsored by the African Studies Center, the Center for Chinese Studies,
the International Institute, and the Confucius Institute at U-M.

Panel Discussion:

Tuesday, April 15, 2014:  Panel Discussion
6:00pm:  Reception in the Commons Area of UMMA
7:00pm:  Panel Discussion ~ Stern Auditorium of UMMA
University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
525 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Panels:  Louisa Lim, Wang Zheng and Jeff Wasserstrom
Moderator:  Mary Gallagher

The final event of the week is a panel discussion with NPR journalist and
2014 Knight-Wallace Fellow Louisa Lim, UC-Irvine historian Jeff
Wasserstrom who has written extensively on Chinese student protests and
related topics, and Professor Wang Zheng of the U-M Institute for Research
on Women and Gender and the U-M History Department, an expert on modern
Chinese history and gender politics.  The panelists will discuss current
research on the Tiananmen Movement,how the movement is remembered in and
outside of China today, and the ways in which student activism have
changed since 1989.  The discussion will incorporate questions from the
audience and will be moderated by CCS director Mary Gallagher.