By Tianqi Yu Originally published on ArtinChina issue 3 Chinese version published on Contemporary Art and Investment, 2011 June issue Republished with permission of the author The International Conference “New Generation Chinese Cinema: Commodity of exchange” took place at King’s College London on 26th and 27th May 2011. It is regarded as the first international conference that focuses solely on contemporary Chinese cinema in the UK. The conference focuses on how China’s mark

The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference invites graduate students from around the world, conducting research in all disciplines, to submit abstracts for its 2012 conference, to take place February 24 – February 26. The HEAS Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on East Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their resea

CALL FOR PAPERS! International Postgraduate Conference: NEW GENERATION CHINESE CINEMA May 26th-27th 2011, London. Taking market forces and China’s new role as a global leader in economics and culture as the two key aspects of the period from 2000, the New Chinese Cinema conference seeks to draw together the disparate threads of Chinese film practice from the last ten years. Commodification has redrawn the coordinates of Chinese film: from commercial Chinese blockbusters to