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Date: October 28,

Time: - PM EDT

Location: TC Grace Dodge Hall , Teachers College, Columbia University, West th Street New York, NY

*Note: This is a bilingual event.

Co-hosted by: Center on Chinese Education, Teachers College, Columbia University and Renwen Society at China Institute

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CHINATOPIA 《新世紀的康有為》(/Evans Chan/Hong Kong/Taiwan/USA/73 min; Documentary in English and Chinese with English and Chinese subtitles) Kang Youwei () was China’s pioneering dissident and constitutional reformer, who prophesized gay marriage, strove to unbind women’s feet and wrote modern China’s first major utopian tract – an acknowledged influence on Mao Zedong.

While previously known mainly for spearheading the Hundred Days Reform (), a modernization drive crushed by Empress Dowager Cixi, Kang Youwei (Liu Kai-chi 廖啟智) comes alive in Chinatopia mostly through his 16 years of exile, which included an idyllic four-year sojourn in Sweden.

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Kang’s cosmopolitanism and his Asian American activism, as assisted by his daughter Kang Tongbi (Lindzay Chan 陳令智) is astounding – an anti-American boycott he orchestrated in to beat back the Chinese Exclusion Acts resulted in two meetings with a conciliatory Theodore Roosevelt. Chinatopia is an abridged version of Evans Chan’s two-part documentaries, acclaimed by critics and historians, Two or Three Things about Kang Youwei 《康有為二三事》() and Datong: The Great Society《大同:康有為在瑞典》(), which was named Movie-of-the- Year by mainland China’s progressive Southern Metropolitan Daily for “returning fuller memories and humanity” to Chinese history.  Chan then collaborated with composer Hing-yan Chan to write the libretto for Datong: The Chinese Utopia, which was hailed by Bachtrack as “a major new opera” upon its premiere at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. 

Event Agenda

• Welcome remarks by Dr.

  Henan Cheng, Deputy Director of the Center on Chinese Education, Teachers College Columbia University

• Pre-screening short lecture, Kang Youwei: Confucian Cosmopolitan, by Prof. Peter Zarrow.
• Post screening discussion on Kang Youwei’s life and legacy as well as the pivotal role by his Daughter Kang Tongbi, who holds the distinction of being the first Asian student ever enrolled at Columbia University – features director Evans Chan and Ms.

  Chiang Ching.

Speakers

 1. Evans Chan 陳耀成.   

 

Evans Chan, said British film critic Tony Rayns, “has made a singular contribution to Hong Kong cinema and at the same time a major contribution to the whole spectrum of contemporary film-making.

His work achieves a seamless blend of fact and fiction to produce an innovative kind of essayistic cinema.” A critic, librettist, and filmmaker, Chan has had his 15 award-winning films, including Journey to Beijing (), Sorceress of the New Piano (), and Love and Death in Montmartre (), shown at the Berlin, Rotterdam, London, Moscow, Vancouver, and San Francisco film festivals, among others.

Kang youwei autobiography of miss universe 2017 swimsuit competition A collection of Kang Youwei's works including both published and unpublished materials, including letters, memorials, travel stories, poetry and unpublished manuscripts. These serve as essential research materials on the political and academic development in modern China and on Kang Youwei, a great reformer, thinker and scholar in Chinese.

Time Out named Chan’s directorial debut, To Liv(e) (), as one of the " Greatest Hong Kong Films.”

2. Chiang Ching 江青

Living between Stockholm & Manhattan, Beijing-born Chiang Ching emerged as a pioneering Asian American dancer/choreographer with the founding of The Chiang Ching Dance Company in NYC in   Then as a stage director, she has presented works at The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Opera, Old Vic Theatre, The Royal Theatre of Sweden, Vienna Volkoper,  Bern City Theatre,  Berlin’s House of World Cultures, Peking’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, and in , at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

Also an author, she has published nine books, including “Chiang Ching’s Past — Eras, Memories, and Ruminations.”  Chiang began her career in Taiwan, where she appeared in more than 29 films and won a Golden Horse Best Actress award.  Three decades later, she resurfaced on screen to narrate Evans Chan’s two documentaries about Kang Youwei, including “Chinotopia.”

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Peter Zarrow

Peter Zarrow, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and Adjunct Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, writes on modern Chinese thought and culture. His books include Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, –, China in War and Revolution, , After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, and Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, –