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LILYPAD’S FALL 25 MAGAZINE IS HERE!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 5:30–6:30 PM at Performance Cafe Snacks and drinks covered The LilyPad’s Fall 25 Magazine is ready, and we’re hosting a small launch get-together to share it with you! Stop by to pick up your free copy (filled with campus stories, student art, and all the DKU spirit), and chat with the team […]
Report on The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China
On Thursday, November 27, 2025, Duke Kunshan University faculty, staff, and students attended a lecture by Professor Ziying Cui, Visiting Lecturer of Dance, titled “The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China.” The lecture examined how the Chinese imagination has invested the ballerina’s disciplined, suffering body with symbolic […]
Film Society Screening: Lan Yu (2001) | Nov. 27
Thursday night is film night! This week, the Film Society presents 蓝宇 Lan Yu (2001), one of the landmark works of queer Chinese cinema. Join us for a powerful screening that continues the “Censored” Series and highlights a film long kept from public view. Set in Beijing in the years leading up to 1989, the […]
Report on “Gathering the Cracks: Poetic Counter-Mapping of Informal Networks in Bacheng”
English and Chinese reported by Zhiyuan Mark Ma, Junyi Yu, Jiaxin Wang On November 6, 2025, the Entangled Cartographies Conference (Track II: Networked Societies), hosted by Prof. Benjamin Bacon, gathered scholars and students to explore the changing landscapes of mapping, networks, and spatial imagination in the digital age. During this panel, DKU students Zhiyuan Mark […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Autumn Tranquility: An Experience of Japanese Tea Ceremony
Time: Nov.21, 1-2pm Place: Library 3F Teahouse Description: The Japanese tea ceremony has its roots in Chinese tea culture, which was introduced to Japan during the Tang and Song dynasties through Buddhist monks. Early Japanese tea practices were heavily influenced by Chinese methods of preparing powdered tea (matcha) and by the Zen Buddhist emphasis on […]
