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	Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7 PM	Good Cats DIRECTOR: YING LIANG - CHINA, 2008 Unregulated capitalism in modern China is explored as a young man from the country tries to find opportunity in the new world order. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM	Bird's Nest—Herzog & De Meuron in China DIRECTOR: CHRISTOPH SCHAUB, MICHAEL SCHINDELM - GERMANY, 2008 Bird’s Nest follows star Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (London’s Tate Modern, Barcelona Forum, San Francisco’s de Young Museum) as they literally and metaphorically build bridges between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and two political systems. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7 PM	The Other Half DIRECTOR: YING LIANG - CHINA, 2006 A young professional woman’s experience of the changing economic and social structures of contemporary China. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:30 PM Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7 PM	Umbrella DIRECTOR: DU HAIBIN - CHINA, 2007 Filmed in five different regions of China, Umbrella offers a telling perspective on the massive migration from the countryside to the cities. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7 PM	How is your Fish Today? DIRECTOR: XIAOLU GUO - CHINA/UK, 2007 Xiaolu’s novelistic film ruminates on urban isolationism in a rapidly expanding China. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:30 PM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM	China Power: Art Now After Mao DIRECTOR: PIA GETTY - BRITAIN, 2008 Getty’s film takes a look at the vibrant contemporary art scene in Beijing and Shanghai. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7 PM	China Youth Now Experience the latest media, technology, and fashion created to appeal to Chinese youth today. Fields Ballroom More Details >
	Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2 PM	China Design Now: Creativity in the Era of Globalization Join Beth McKillop as she discusses the changing economic and cultural contexts that have fueled an explosion of creativity in Chinese graphic design, fashion, and architecture in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing. Supported by the Asian Art Council and the Mildred Schnitzer Asian Art Program Fund. | Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7 PM	My China Now—Part I DIRECTOR: VARIOUS - CHINA, 2005-08 The first of two programs of short films showcasing the creative voices of more than 30 Chinese artists and filmmakers who are defining contemporary Chinese culture. The subjects of the films range from the social effects of urbanization and the fascination with China’s new wealth to skateboarding, fashion, and pop culture. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4 PM	China Music Now: A Conversation with Ye Xiaogang How do musicians in China make a living? Who is their audience? And how is the business of music changing in China? Miller Gallery More Details >
	Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM	Up the Yangtze DIRECTOR: YUNG CHANG - CHINA/CANADA, 2007 With a humanist gaze and wry wit, Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather's youth to trace the surreal experience of a "farewell cruise" that traverses an epic waterway forever changed by a globalized China. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7 PM	The World DIRECTOR: ZHANG KE JIA - CHINA, 2004 Zhang Ke Jia casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships, and desperate dreams of the twenty-somethings from China’s remote provinces who come to live and work at Beijing’s World Park—a bizarre cross-cultural pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM	China Music Now: Third Angle Performs New Works by Chinese Composers In two exclusive performances, Third Angle Music Ensemble, led by Artistic Director Ron Blessinger of Portland, will perform works by the latest generation of Chinese composers selected by Ye Xiaogang. Fields Ballroom More Details >
	Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7 PM	China Architecture Now Join Yung Ho Chang for an in-depth discussion about profound and rapid changes in economics, mobility, consumerism, and architecture in China. Fields Ballroom More Details >
	Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7 PM	My China Now—Part II DIRECTOR: VARIOUS - CHINA, 2005-08 The second of two programs of short films showcasing the creative voices of Chinese filmmakers. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:30 PM	Useless DIRECTOR: ZHANG KE JIA - CHINA, 2007 Juxtaposing three different phases of clothing manufacture, Zhang Ke offers a sometimes devastating, but always compassionate, image of China’s fashion world. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7 PM	Still Life DIRECTOR: ZHANG KE JIA - CHINA/HONG KONG, 2006 Zhang Ke’s empathetic portrait of those left behind by a modernizing society is a breathtakingly poetic hybrid of documentary and fiction that charts the great changes that come to the Yangtze River town of Fengjie and the countless families who have had to relocate to other cities. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2 PM	A Conversation with Freeman Lau Join Freeman Lau and Carl Alviani for a discussion about graphic design, typography, and advertising in China today, with a focus on trends from the city of Shenzhen. Miller Gallery More Details >
	Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12 PM	Free Museum Family Day: China Design Now The third in an ongoing series of free family days will feature Chinese dance, music, and food, along with art-making activities inspired by the three cities featured in China Design Now. Museum Family Days are supported by Sharon L. Miller and family and the Lamb Baldwin Foundation. More Details >
	Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM	The Art of Xu Bing: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art Internationally renowned artist Xu Bing will discuss his work, which ranges from monumental installations to handcrafted books exploring language and the written word, usually in the form of the Chinese character. Fields Ballroom More Details >
	Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:30 PM	Shen Wei Dance Arts The Portland Art Museum is a sponsor of White Bird’s presentation of Chinese-born choreographer Shen Wei, whose dazzling contribution to the opening ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics received worldwide attention. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall More Details >
	Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7 PM	A Conversation with Shen Wei Renowned choreographer, dancer, and artist Shen Wei talks with Chief Curator Bruce Guenther about becoming an artist in China and the changing opportunities and training available for artists there now. Kridel Grand Ballroom More Details >
	Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10 AM	Make Something!: UNKL-ing Around Nurture your creative side in one-day workshops inspired by China Design Now. Kinney Classroom More Details >
	Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:30 PM	Young and Restless in China DIRECTOR: SUE WILLIAMS - CHINA/US, 2007 Williams tracks five wildly ambitious high school graduates over four years: a hip-hop artist, two migrant workers, a medical resident, and an environmental activist. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7 PM	Meishi Street DIRECTOR: OU NING - CHINA, 2006 Meishi Street shows ordinary citizens taking a stand against the planned destruction of their homes and neighborhood for the Beijing Olympics. Fields Ballroom, Mark Building More Details >
	Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10 AM	Make Something!: Skateboard Design Nurture your creative side in one-day workshops inspired by China Design Now. Kinney Classroom More Details >
	Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM	24 City DIRECTOR: JIA ZHANGKE - CHINA, 2008 Zhang Ke’s cameras capture the last days of a storied airplane factory in Chengdu, Sichuan, by zeroing in on the people who used to work there—and the people who will move into the new apartments that will take its place—making palpable both irretrievable loss and irresistible progress. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:30 PM	Manufactured Landscapes DIRECTOR: JENNIFER BAICHWAL - CANADA, 2006 Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams—Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China as he shoots the evidence and effects of massive industrial revolution. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10 AM	Make Something!: Just Add Vinyl Nurture your creative side in one-day workshops inspired by China Design Now. Kinney Classroom More Details >
	Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2 PM	San Yuan Li DIRECTOR: OU NING, CAO FEI - CHINA, 2003 The site of the 1841 Opium War that led the revolt against colonial British authority, SanYuan Li Village is a “village-amid-the-city” that is typical of the urbanization process in Guangzhou in Southern China. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7 PM	I Love Beijing DIRECTOR: NING YING - CHINA, 2001 Taxi driver Dezi circuits between Beijing’s new, affluent districts and the old, poor parts of a city with a vanishing past and a rapidly arriving future. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >
	Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM	Perpetual Motion DIRECTOR: NING YING - CHINA, 2005 In this Chinese Sex and the City, a woman suspecting that her husband is having an affair invites the three suspects to lunch, hoping to uncover the other woman. Whitsell Auditorium More Details >