Activity Recap: Japanese Tea Ceremony Etiquette and Appreciation
On Friday, November 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM, about twenty students and faculty members gathered for a special Japanese Tea Ceremony workshop. This event is part of China-Japan Post-1945 event series. Prof. Cong Li from the Language and Culture Center invited a specialist of the Japanese tea ceremony from Shanghai, who held the workshop at […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza; Sorrentino 2013) | Nov 27, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Join the Nighthawks for a great and Superdeep beauty: Paolo Sorrentino‘s 2013 masterpiece La Grande Bellezza (…& food & drink). Time: Nov 27, 8:28pm pizza, 8:38pm film Place: IB 1008 Lecture Hall *** The Superdeep Nighthawks offer a space for late birds to take Superdeep respite after a week of classes. The Nighthawks gather on Thursdays around 8:18pm, for movie screenings […]
Provincializing Earth: The Making of a Planet since 1946
Thursday December 4, 5-6:15 PM, AB1079 Speaker: Alexander C.T. Geppert, New York University and NYU Shanghai Global history is currently attempting to reinvent itself under the supposedly new label ‘planetary history’ yet without paying much attention to the planet’s outerspatial environment. Divided into four segments – planetization, picturization, satellization, extraterrestrialization – this talk argues that […]
The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China
Thursday November 27, 5:00-6:15pm, Lib 2115 Speaker: Professor Ziying Cui, Visiting Lecturer of Dance at DKU In 2015, Huawei shocked the world with a striking advertisement: a ballerina’s foot, one perfectly poised in a satin shoe, the other bruised and bleeding beneath its bandages. For Huawei’s founder, this tortured foot symbolized both “pain and happiness” […]
Liberty and Power in a New Global Order | Nov. 24th
Monday Nov. 24th 12:00-13:15 WDR 2201 Lunch will be provided! Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Should this prospect be seen as a mere scaling-up of familiar ideas about statehood, to deal with global urgency around everything from climate change to public […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: Ruben Brandt, Collector (Krstić 2018) | Nov 20, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 In a busy week, on a busy day, following our Superdeep collaboration with the Film Society on Věra Chytilová‘s 1966 Daisies (5:45pm CCT Theatre), let the Nighthawks steal you away for Milorad Krstić‘s 2018’s Ruben Brandt, Collector (…& food & drink). Time: Nov 20, 8:28pm pizza, 8:38pm film Place: IB 1008 […]
Event Recap: Exploring Lu Xun’s Japanese Essay, “I Want to Deceive People”
Reported by Ruoying Wang, class of 2028 On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, DKU faculty, staff, and students gathered in LIB1123 for a special reading and discussion session titled “I Want to Deceive People.” The session was led by Professor Taku Kurashige, Associate Professor at Tsinghua University’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, whose research […]
Punishment Park, a film by Peter Watkins
Time: Nov. 25th, 6:30 pm (Screening at 7:15) Space: Performance Cafe Drinks & refreshments are provided at the event. A film screening event of Punishment Park, a film by Peter Watkins, presented by the Fascism and Everyday Life Initiative, hosted by Duke Kunshan Humanities Research Center.
Liang Qichao & Frank Goodnow: Views on China’s Monarchy
The Chinese political reformer Liang Qichao’s support for constitutional monarchy and rejection of the republican revolutionary cause (1906) incurred great controversies. Almost ten years later, the American political scientist Frank Goodnow, hired as the constitutional advisor to the Chinese president Yuan Shikai, also argued that constitutional monarchy was more suitable for China than the republican […]
