Michael Berry (白睿文)
@bairuiwen.bsky.social
2023 Guggenheim Fellow; UCLA Prof of Chinese Lit & Film. Director, Center for Chinese Studies. Author and translator. https://michael-berry.com www.alc.ucla.edu/person/michael-berry/
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...
A pleasure to speak to NPRs Hear and Now about the recent Chinese spy thriller Silent Honor: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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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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-...
“Will the Real Jia Zhangke Please Stand Up?” Los Angeles Review of Books (link in comments)
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
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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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...
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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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.
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...
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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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. 🤦
Check out this great series of Chinese cinema at UCLA this winter: www.cinema.ucla.edu/series/echoe...
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...
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/
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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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...
"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...
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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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...
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...
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...
11/10 @ UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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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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...
Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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Sammy Lee Lecture w/ Tristram R. Kidder (Wash U, Saint Louis). The Value of the Anthropocene Concept 10/31; 1-3 Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... Greater Than the Forces of Nature? 11/1; 1-3 Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...
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.
international.ucla.edu
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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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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
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...
Greater Than the Forces of Nature?
2025 Sammy Lee Lecture by Prof. Tristram R. Kidder, Washington University in Saint Louis.
international.ucla.edu
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...
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.
international.ucla.edu
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...
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.
international.ucla.edu
