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The Last Empress and the Publisher: America and the Birth of Modern China
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June 30, 2010
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Date: Jul 21, 2010 | 6:30pm to 8:30 pm
Location: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York
Location: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York
Authors Hannah Pakula (The Last
Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China) and Alan
Brinkley (The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century) will talk about
the complex ties between American publishing giant Henry Luce and the
charismatic Chinese leaders Madame and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The
discussion will be moderated by Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the
Center on US-China Relations.
(via http://www.asiasociety.org/)
(via http://www.asiasociety.org/)
Tomie Arai is an activist, artist, philosopher, poet, historian,
printmaker, instillation artist, and public artist who has worked
collaboratively with community groups for over thirty years. She has
realized numerous commissions, including ones from the Cambridge Arts
Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art
Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the recipient
of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Printmaking, a
1995 Joan Mitchell Visual Arts Grant, a 1997 Mid Atlantic Arts
Foundation Visual Artist Residency, and a 1994 NEA Visual Arts
Fellowship. Arai's work explores the relationship of art to history and
the role that memory plays in retelling a collective past. Some of her
recent works include a series of constructions that incorporate
silk-screened photographs addressing issues of identity, displacement,
and acculturation. She is married to Legan Wong, has two children and
is a grandmother.
Corky Lee, known as the "undisputed unofficial Asian American
Photographer Laureate," is a self-taught photographer, has been
documenting Asian and Pacific American community for over 30 years. His
work, which has been described as "only a small attempt to rectify
omissions in our history text books," has appeared in Time magazine, the New York Times, The Village Voice, Associated Press, The Villager and Downtown Express. In an interview in AsianWeek
Lee commented: "I'd like to think that every time I take my camera out
of my bag, it's like drawing a sword to combat indifference, injustice
and discrimination, trying to get rid of stereotypes."
