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Thursday, December 8, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture: "American-China Policy: Missed Opportunities and Their Influence on Present Day Policy"

Michael Shaller, Author,

Fulbright Scholar, Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages

Michael Shaller is a Fulbright scholar teaching at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages. He is the author of two books on China-U.S. policy. Mr. Shaller's talk will cover U.S.-Chinese policies of the 1940s. He will illustrate how U.S. foreign policy led to a 20-year period of Chinese-American confrontation and how the past course of history still influences American-Chinese relations of the present.
Monday, December 5, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture: "Divination and Its Influence on Your Life"

Jean-Michel Huron de Kermadec,

Sinologist, Author, The Way to Chinese Astrology

The author of The Way to Chinese Astrology, Mr. de Kermadec is a well-known French Sinologist specializing in Chinese geomancy. He will show the inter-relationship of acupuncture, astrology, martial arts and geomancy in one's life, both spiritually and physically.
Tuesday, November 29, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture and Slides: "The Development of Literati Painting in China"

Friedrich Zettl,

Painter, Sinologist, Ethnologist

Friedrich Zettl, Austrian painter, sinologist and ethnologist, has been painting for the past 12 years, five of which were devoted to using Chinese techniques. He has studied art and art history in Beijing at the Central Academy of FIne Arts for four years and is now completing his doctoral dissertation for the University of Vienna on the topic, "Xie Yi (freehand brushwork) Painting in Modern China."
Wednesday, November 9, 1983 - 19:30

Film: "Gung Ho" and Discussion with Rewi Alley

Rewi Alley

Rewi Alley comes from a distinguished literary and university family in New Zealand. In 1927, after returning from military service and having tried farming, he came to Shanghai to "have a look at this revolution in China." He was fascinated and took a job as a fire department inspector, an excellent vantage point from which to see all sides of life in the teeming commercial center that Shanghai then was. He became involved in the revolution and as a result started the movement known as "Gung Ho" which sought to use unemployed peasants in co-operative factory work. He was a personal friend...
Wednesday, November 2, 1983 - 10:00

Lecture and Art Demonstration

Yuan Xiaocen,

Professor, College of Arts, Yunnan Province;

Yuan Xikun

Yuan Xiaocen, a professor at the College of Arts in Yunnan Province, is in Beijing to make large paintings for hotels. His specialty is to portray peacocks in the wild using free hand brushwork. He, along with his son, Yuan Xikun, also make "wax paintings" which are modelled after batik but incorporate the use of pens for laying on color, and chemicals for changing and making fast the color. Yuan Xikun is noted for his paintings of tigers. Both father and son have been kindly allowed to speak to us and demonstrate their methods of painting.
Monday, October 24, 1983 - 19:30

Film: "Crows & Sparrows"

Synopsis:

Shanghai in the winter of 1948. Newspaper office clerk Kong Youwen has been forced to move into a back room of his own house by KMT official Hou Yibo, who has commandeered the premises on the pretext that Kong is suspected of being a traitor. Hou is living with his mistress Yu Xiaoying on the top floor, and has rented out the other rooms in the house to two couples: schoolteacher Hua Jiezhi and his wife and daughter, and pedlar "Little Boss" and his wife.

Monday, September 26, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture: "And in the Beginning There was History - History as Law in the Chinese Tradition"

Peter Lighte

Owing to China's distinctive traditional cosmology, the record of human activity - history - occupied a revered position in society. Not merely a chronicle, but also a gauge of behavior, history in China assumed a position held by law and religion in the West. Mr. Lighte, a former professor of Chinese Cultural History and now representing a bank here in China, will explore the traditional Chinese world view and the likelihood of its survival.
Monday, September 12, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture and Slide Show: "The Crane Project in Heilongjiang Province"

George Archibald, Director,

International Crane Foundation,

Baraboo, Wisconsin

George Archibald, Director of the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin, will speak and show slides on the subject of cranes, mainly those of endangered varieties. He is presently helping the Chinese build a crane refuge in Northeast China. Of particular interest is one variety of bird of which only 13 exist in the world - 10 of which are found in China.
Wednesday, July 6, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture and Slide Show: "Contemporary Chinese Art Abroad - East Meets West"

Ross Lewis, Painter, Scrollmounter

Ross Lewis is a painter and scrollmounter and presently working for his MFA in printmaking at Brooklyn College. He is particularly interested in contemporary Chinese artists and exhibits the works of leading Beijing and Shanghai artists in his gallery in New York City. He will be speaking to the BIS on the influence of Chinese artists on Western art.
Thursday, June 30, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture: "The Panda Project in Sichuan"

Dr. George Schaller,

Conservation Dept, New York Zoological Society

Dr. Schaller, Director of the New York Zoological Society's Conservation Department, is a famous wildlife biologist and specialist in the behavior of gorillas in Zaire, and wild sheep and snow leopards in the Himalayas. World Wildlife selected Dr. Schaller as the foreign research scientist to work with Chinese colleagues on the Panda Project. He has spent the better part of the last two years in the field in Sichuan Province. Wendy Nash of the World Wildlife Fund - Hong Kong will also be in attendance to explain what they are doing to assist the Panda Project.
Monday, May 16, 1983 - 18:30

Art Exhibition and BIS Anniversary Celebration

We welcome all members and friends to celebrate (a bit belatedly!) the second anniversary of the Beijing International Society. As is fitting the celebration will take place at the United Nations Building, where the BIS began. We are very pleased to combine this with an art exhibition. On display will be calligraphy by one of our past speakers, Andre Kneib, and also works of art by one student and one graduate student from the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Monday, April 25, 1983 - 19:30

Slide Show: "Changing China: 1978-1983 in Pictures"

Bill Sexton,

Correspondent, Newsday

Starting with Democracy Wall in September 1978 Bill Sexton has been photographing the ups and downs of China's metamorphosis under Deng Xiaoping. Bill has been the Newsday correspondent in Peking for the past three years and will soon be returning to New York. He has selected highlights from his color slide collection for this "history lecture without words."
Monday, April 18, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture: "Chinese Medicine - 50 Years"

Dr. George Hatem (Ma Haide),

Advisor, Ministry of Public Health

Dr. Ma Haide (George Hatem) came to China fifty years ago equipped with medical skills to serve his fellow man. Leprosy has been one of the areas of his medical work. Dr. Hatem has remained in China, is now a Chinese citizen and serves as an Advisor to the Ministry of Public Health. His wealth of experiences will be shared with the BIS in his talk on April 18.
Thursday, April 14, 1983 - 19:30

Lecture: "Research into the History of the Ching Clan - from the Song Dynasty to Present"

Frank Ching,

Correspondent, Wall Street Journal

Frank Ching has been the Wall Street Journal correspondent in Peking for the last three years. During this time he has been able to do much research into his family history. He will be lecturing to the BIS on this research which dates from the Song Dynasty to the present - over 900 years of Ching family history.
Monday, January 31, 1983 - 19:30

Traveling Buddhist Monks

Nancy Bolton, Ph.D.,

Georgetown University

Nancy Bolton will tell the BIS about the travel records of the Chinese Buddhist monks who from the fourth century through the seventh century A.D. made the pilgrimage to India to visit the holy land of their religion and bring back scriptures and relics. She will explain the contribution of these great classics of travel literature to the popularization of Buddhism and the development of Chinese fiction. Our lecturer, Nancy Bolton, has a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University.