Recent Events and Highlights
10/02 Mid-Autumn Festival Virtual Celebration
GW presents our first Mid-Autumn Festival Virtual Celebration in partnership with DC Fuyao Hanfu Association.
08/29: GW CI Cultural Lecture Series | Bridge the Pacific Ocean with Beijing Opera
The GW Confucius Institute's partner, DC Beauty of Beijing Opera, Ltd (DCBBO) 华府“京剧之花”, is presenting a free virtual concert by eleven world renowned Beijing opera artists from across the Pacific Ocean 中美京剧名家荟萃 “京剧之花“ 公益抗疫 云中盛会 唱演京剧 畅谈京剧.
08/19: GW CI Cultural Lecture Series | Fox Spirits in Chinese Tradition
The GW Confucius Institute is pleased to present a lecture on "Fox Spirits in Chinese Tradition" (中国传统文化中的狐仙信仰) given by Dr. Xiaofei Kang as part of the GW CI Cultural Lecture Series. It focuses on the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society, and describes various cult practices, activities of worship, and the exorcising of fox spirits to reveal how the Chinese people constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of official power and morality.
07/16: GW CI Cultural Lecture Series | Circulating the Great Qing Code
The GW Confucius Institute is pleased to partner with Nanjing University Library to present a virtual lecture on "Circulating the Great Qing Code（清代法律知识的传播）" given by Dr. Ting Zhang（张婷博士）as part of the GW CI Cultural Lecture Series. It focuses on the development of commercial printing in the late Ming and Qing Era, and how the commercial publishing houses replaced the imperial publishing houses in editing and publishing the Great Qing Code.
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