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- Inaugural Lecture 15 June 2011
- History of Medicine in Motion
- Medical Texts in Translation
- Potent Substances: On the Boundaries of Food and Medicine
- Festival of Chinese Film and the Body
- Perfect Bodies
- Daoist and Other Visualisations in Practice
- Festival of Chinese Film and the Body, Film 4
- Chinese New Year celebrations 2013
- Pharmacology in China
- The Benevolent Dragon? An analysis of China's health diplomacy to Africa (1964 – the present)
- China in Latin America
- Martial arts film: The Sword Identity
- Spices and medicine: From Historical Obsession to Research of the Future
- CCHH OPEN DAY
- CCHH film evenings
- Performance and [dis]ability
- Chinese film evening, 29/11: Woman Demon Human 人鬼情
- Chinese film evening, Dragon (Wuxia 武俠, 2011), dir. Peter Chan 陈可辛.
- History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar: Prof. Volker Scheid
- Chinese film evening, 10/01/2017: Mother (Mama 妈妈), dir. Zhang Yuan 张元, 1990.
- Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities
- CCHH alumni news
- CCHH MA student achievement
- Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities workshop
- China and Freedom of Speech: new systems for the accountability of the press. An evening with John Kampfner
- Imagining Chinese Medicine: Medical illustration from Han tombs to contemporary Comics.
- Twelve Scholars of the Bamboo Grove
- Chinese Visual Festival 2014
- A transnational history of the forensic gaze
- The 'Subtle Body' in the Indo-Tibetan and Chinese traditions
- UK première – Sauna on the Moon (Chang’e 嫦娥), dir. Zou Peng 邹鹏, China 2011
- Come and join the China-Taiwan cross-straits debate!
- #UCLfacesRACE: Eugenics@UCL
- Emetic remedies in Japanese Koiho 古方 medicine
- #UCLfacesRACE, Conversation 2: Why is my curriculum white?
- Daoist Cooking through the Four Seasons
- University of Westminster Contemporary China Centre Seminar
- Administrating Art, History, and Science in the Mongol Empire: Rashid al-Din and Bolad Chengxiang
- Thinking Chinese Conference (31/03–1/04 2015) 思華 · 華思 (UPDATE)
- Thinking Chinese Exhibition (31/03–12/05 2015)
- The Chinese Erhu during the First World War
- 5th Annual Chinese Visual Festival
- Call for Chinese-speaking choral singers!
- Lady Precious Stream
- Film and Discussion: When China Met Africa
- Hot and Numb! 2000 years of Sichuan pepper
- A unique opportunity to learn Chinese Sign Language at UCL!
- Medical Humanities in China – conference
- Isabella Bird (1831–1904): Photographic travels in China
- Thinking Chinese 思華 . 華思
- History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar: Professor Elisabeth Hsu
- International postgraduate summer school
- Di Lu Wins IASTAM Junior Scholar Essay Prize
- New Chinese Film + Director's Q&A
- Summer volunteering placements in rural China
- Chinoiseries – Art and Fashion
- Cross-Cultural Medical Humanities in a Digital World
- PKU-UCL Cross-Cultural Medical Humanities
- Frontiers in Digital Health seminar
- Exhibition + Lecture + Student workshop
- PKU scholarship information event
- Chinese film evening, 17/01/2017: Inner Senses (Yidu kongjian 异度空间), dir. Law Chi-leung (Luo Zhiliang) 罗志良, 2002.
- Sense and Sensation Seminar: Sense and Sensuality in Ancient China
- Chinese film evening, 24/01/2017: East Palace, West Palace 东宫西宫 (1996).
- Peking University Yenching scholarship deadline 31 January 2017
- Scholarships to study Chinese in China – deadline 13 Feb, 9am
- CELEBRATE CHINESE NEW YEAR!
- Chinese film evening, 31/01/2017: For Fun 找乐 (1993)
- The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Contemporary China
- Chinese film evening, 7/02/2017: In Love We Trust 左右 (2008)
- Dumplings 饺子 (2004)
- Abortion in China
- Institute of Digital Health seminar
- LOOMS OF LIFE – weaving, medicine and knowledge production in early China
- MA Chinese Health & Humanity Dissertation Conference 2017
- UNexpected London Chinese Short Film Festival 2017
- YiMovi Exhibition of Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities
- The Silent Teacher
- History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar
- 2017 Chinese Art Film Festival London Showcase
- Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities: Ten workshops
- Order/Disorder: The artist-researcher as connector-disrupter-running messenger?
- YiMovi website – live now!
- UCL-PKU dual degree officially launched
- PKU-UCL inter-university module in the Cross-Cultural Health Humanities
- China's first Medical Humanities summit
- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, CERA-UK Annual Conference 2018
- China’s visual cultures and the Medical and Health Humanities: launch event
- MA Dissertation Conference 2018: Transnational Studies and Chinese Health & Humanity
- Chinese Visual Festival 2018
- Imagining Chinese Medicine
- Ma Kanwen Memorial Lecture 2018
- The Cholera Pandemic,Transnational Politics, and the Cold War in Southeast Asia and China, 1960-1965
- Longing For Rain: Spectral lovers and the new urban spaces of middle-class Beijing
- Madness in Paris, Paris in Madness: The City, Emotions and the Insane at the Dawn of Mass Society
- Movement Matters: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Avant-Garde
- Chinese Food Philosophy: A Recipe for Life
- Chinese New Year Festivities
- Acu-Moxa and Qi 氣: a UCL IAS Talking Points seminar
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Acu-Moxa and Qi 氣: a UCL IAS Talking Points seminar
with IAS visiting research fellow Dr Shan Jiang 姜姗, and respondents Dr Vivienne Lo and Dr Nancy Holroyde-Downing. Time: 6:00–8:00pm, Tuesday 19 February 2019. Place: IAS Common Ground (ground floor, south wing, Wilkins building). Further details here.
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Chinese New Year Festivities
Celebrate the New Year of the Pig with CCHH in the Refectory (UCL Wilkins Building, Lower Ground) on Monday 4 February 2019, from 6pm onwards. More...
Chinese Food Philosophy: A Recipe for Life
Vivienne Lo (UCL CCHH), Bee Wilson and Ching-He Huang in conversation with Donald Sloan, Wednesday 16 , January 2019,
6.30–8.30pm,
at Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP.
Book via Eventbrite. Free tickets for students.
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Madness in Paris, Paris in Madness: The City, Emotions and the Insane at the Dawn of Mass Society
A History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar with Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine (University of Auckland, NZ / QMUL.
Time: Mon 19 November 2018, 18:00 – 19:30.
Place: SELCS Common Room, G24 Foster Court, Malet Place.
Registration via Eventbrite:
https://parismadness.eventbrite.co.uk
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Movement Matters: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Avant-Garde
A workshop-performance event to mark the paperback edition of Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith, The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomsbury, December 2018).
Time: Saturday 1 December 2018, 2:00–6:00pm.
Place: IAS Common Ground (ground floor, south wing, Wilkins building).
Registration via Eventbrite:
https://movement-matters.eventbrite.co.uk
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Longing For Rain: Spectral lovers and the new urban spaces of middle-class Beijing
A UCL Health Humanities seminar with Vivienne Lo and Nashuyuan Wang.
Time: Thursday 15 November, 6.15–7.15pm.
Place: SELCS Common Room, G24 Foster Court, Malet Place More...
The Cholera Pandemic,Transnational Politics, and the Cold War in Southeast Asia and China, 1960-1965
An IAS Talking Point seminar with Visiting Research Fellow Dr
Fang Xiaoping 方小平 and responses from Dr Vivienne Lo and Dr Andrew Wear.
Time: Wed 20 June 2018, 6–8pm
Place: IAS Common Ground (ground floor, south wing, Wilkins building)
Registration via Eventbrite.
Download a flyer here.
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Ma Kanwen Memorial Lecture 2018
Vivienne Lo (UCL CCHH) will be giving the 2nd Ma Kanwen Memorial Lecture at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge on Friday 25 May, 4pm. More...
Twelve Scholars of the Bamboo Grove
11 April 2014
To celebrate the end of lectures and UCL’s first UG course in Ancient and Medieval Chinese History, twelve talented students set out to emulate the Seven Scholars of the Bamboo Grove. Now read on...
To celebrate the end of lectures and UCL’s first UG course in Ancient and Medieval Chinese History, twelve talented students set out to emulate the Seven Scholars of the Bamboo Grove, Tang-dynasty Daoists who pursued poetic excellence and transcendence through inebriation. Fortified with barbecued lamb kebabs and sparkling wine, they filled Mecklenburgh Square Gardens with their effervescent eloquence.
One classic mode of Tang dynasty poetic composition involves improvising eight-line poems in rhyming couplets and – in our case – draining your cup when the company deemed yours was a worthy poem (and sometimes when it was a bad poem, or any kind of poem at all). Classic topics include drinking, lamentation, and love. The students were given five minutes per poem, and have proved themselves to be the new Bloomsbury Bards.
THE POEMS
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The winning poem by Alice Lemkes
Alcohol: A
Fresher’s Story
For HW
Students boozing, love to binge
Drunken antics, make you cringe
Jäger bombs? Can’t go wrong there
Tequila too? Got some change spare
Cheap pints on a Wednesday night
More and more: you want a fight?
Hospitalised… gone too far
No more again? Heard that before.
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Fruitful collaborations
Subject: THE GARDENS
The Gardens
Salad with a spoon
Wine is coming soon
Thanks to Vivienne
Beautiful garden
Fire burns the ashes
Hair makes the dances
Pedals flying
Lyrics coming
The Gardens
Spuds in their jackets
Cakes in their packets
The beer is flowing
Imagination lacking
Sample five sapours
Relish all flavours
Pass someone the fork
To unscrew the cork
Subject: WILD CREATURES
Cats in Gordon Square
Parrots flying nowhere
Pigeon’s mangled feet
Bread for them to eat
Foxes copulate
Noise keeps me up late
Camden Town Friday night
Salsa wildlings in blue light
Subject: TIME PASSES IN THE GARDEN
One three-stringed fiddle
Two tunes pitched middle
Check the football scores
Ignore social mores
Consult poet’s muse
So afraid to lose
Watch the sun go by,
Windows reflect sky
Subject: FLOWERS AND DEATH
Flowers for the homosexual marriage
Death for the discrimination for it*
Daisies in Mecklenburgh Square
Why is there so much despair?
Let’s not worry too much though
Thanks for the food Dr Lo!
Daffodils are abundant
So don’t be too despondent
*29th March 2014 was the day that same-sex marriage became legal in the UK
Subject: HISTORY
Qinshi Huangdi’s rise
China is the prize
Long life in the West
Kunlun Queen Mother’s rest
Liu Bei’s shining sword
Cao Cao, poetry lord
Once origins, now Lord Lao
Status of structured Dao
Subject: LAMENTATION
Lamentation
Happy people walking by
Under the great blue sky
Seeing such happy scenes
One thinks times are easy
Trees sway in the breeze
Time pulls with ease
Hearts break whither torn
Sitting alone forlorn
Lamentation
Exam is on the 1st of May
That will be a horrid day.
Until then we’ll sob and cry
Afterwards we might just die.
Or if not we’ll carry on
But our hopes will be all gone.
Give our books up for our lives,
Each becoming rich men’s wives.
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We are individuals
Subject: ALCOHOL
Alcohol
Warm wine in autumn
Nights long, day’s low sun
By the fire, sleepy
Winter with whiskey
Slow change – a new year
Warm winds and cold beer
Long days, summer sun
Gin! Tonic! Coke! Rum!
Alcohol
The end of the course
Gui’s lack of remorse
Shang oracle bones
To dynastic thrones.
The 1st of May looms
Exam failure doom
Cure of sadness, drink
Spare us from the brink
Alcohol
Bottle of red wine
Skint fresher – good time!
Peroni in bag
Not the Lidl crap
Sick in common room
LSE cleaner’s doom
London painted red
Hangover – brain dead
Alcohol
Booze was judged to be
Far greater than tea
Served in Han and Qin
At banquets of the King
Fit for games and larks
Played in Royal parks
Seven sheng to drink
Makes it hard to think
Alcohol
Some call you heartless
You call them mindless
Some call you dangerous
You call them generous
You are ached with craze
You are banned with erase
Desire in absence,
Pain in abundance
Alcohol
Alcohol, devil or saint?
In open air or in tent?
Go for it or against it?
Consume or vomit out?
Unsolved the dilemma
Big worries for a mermaid
What happens I give my life
While he raises his sharp knife
Alcohol
A great second year occurred
Now write 7000 words
Like a battling Mongol
I’ll have to drink alcohol
To get through the long essay
Without life being too messy
Might need the help of Buddha
It’s a serious matter
Alcohol
Its taste may not be the nicest,
My rum is Tesco’s finest
Mix with coke, hold your nose,
Students’ saying always goes.
If you have ice, you’re in luck,
Finest cocktail in the book.
Gets you hammered in the street,
And thank god, it’s really cheap.
Alcohol
Sparkling Prosecco
Has made me mellow
The sweet potatoes
Have warmed my cold toes
The butter and bread
Was very well spread
The sun is yellow
So more Prosecco
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A collaborative coda
29th
March, Mecklenburgh Square Gardens
Seedbed of budding scholars
Or kept spouses with flash cars
Each a single future narrates
Out-singing London parrots
Our common knowledge pooling
Wine guides our muse to tune in
Let’s drink to the Tang refrain
Before our ways part again
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