Friday, November 4, 2016

Tinig Ng Bayan: An Evening of Filipino Voices with La-Ti-Do, November 12 in Shadyside.



The Filipino American Association of Pittsburgh will present Tinig Ng Bayan: An Evening of Filipino Voices on November 12 at Winchester Thurston School in Shadyside.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Chinese Apartment Art: Primary Documents from Gao Minglu's Archive, 1970s-1990s opens at Pitt, November 4.



Opening on Friday, November 4, at the University of Pittsburgh is an exhibition organized by graduate students in a Special Topics on Chinese Art seminar, Chinese Apartment Art: Primary Documents from Gao Minglu's Archive, 1970s-1990s. A "festive opening" will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

New Chinese movies Mr. Donkey (驴得水), Someone To Talk To (一句顶一万句) in Pittsburgh from November 4.



Two 2016 Chinese movies, Mr. Donkey (驴得水) and Someone To Talk To (一句顶一万句), will play at the AMC Loews Waterfront Theater from November 4.

Chinese express mail service KS Express opens in Squirrel Hill.



A Chinese express mail service, KS Express, has moved into 2212 Murray Ave (map). It's the second such business to open on the Squirrel Hill street, after the Shanghai-based shipping and logistics chain STO Express (申通快) opened in January.

Hayao Miyazaki film series coming to Row House Cinema in December.




Lawrenceville's Row House Cinema recently announced a Hayao Miyazaki film series to run from December 9 through 16. The four movies---Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ), Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便), Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城), and Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ)---haven't played in Pittsburgh theaters since their original releases. Row House ran a MIyazaki series last December with four different movies.

"Japan, Ink: Global Flows of 'Deviant' Body Modification" at Pitt, November 28.


Tattoo by Taku Oshima, photo courtesy of his website.

Advance notice for a talk at the University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center on November 28, "Japan, Ink: Global Flows of 'Deviant' Body Modification", by John Skutlin, a PhD candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

"On Feeding the Masses: The Politics of Regulatory Failure in China" at Pitt, November 7.



The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will host Dr. John Yasuda of Indiana University and his talk "On Feeding the Masses: The Politics of Regulatory Failure in China" on November 7 as part of the center's Talking About Asia series.

1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour (二十四時間の情事) at Row House Cinema, November 6 and 10.



The 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour (二十四時間の情事) will play at the Row House Cinema in Lawrenceville on November 6 and 10.

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