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Webinar! Yan Li is an Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture and is the Director of the Confucius Institute at Waterloo University. She has organized a December 3 Webinar commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Norman Bethune. The attachment has more information about the event as well as the URL for the webinar, the Zoom Meeting Number, and the password. You are welcome to attend.

Webinar Remembering the Ancestors: Ancestor Portraits and Prints in Traditional Chinese Households This note is a reminder that Dr. Wen-chien Cheng from the ROM will give a talk in our virtual meeting TODAY at 7:30 pm.... Topic: My Meeting Time: Nov 22, 2020, 7:30 PM Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79185536129 Meeting ID: 791 8553 6129 Passcode: QuVx9v Instructions for Conference Via Zoom 1. When you click Join Zoom Meeting link, the system will ask you to download Zoom Cloud Meetings" to your laptop or computer (with video and audio capacity). 2. After downloading, you can go back to the same Join Zoom Meeting link, the system will let you join the Conference automatically. 3.In case the Zoom system ask you the meeting ID, you enter 791 8553 6129, then the passcode: QuVx9v. 4. At the bottom of your computer screen, please find the menu bar, where you can mute or unmute yourself, you can also let the video open and close.

Sunday, November 22. 7:30 pm Webinar with Dr. Wen-chien Cheng, Louise Hawley Stone Chair of Chinese Arts, ROM Remembering the Ancestors:Ancestor Portraits and Prints in Traditional Chinese Households... Chinese culture is rich in customs, traditions, and beliefs. Families commemorate their ancestors through worship in major festivals like the Chinese Lunar New Year. This talk will introduce a range of ancestral images from painted portraits to mass-produced prints, commonly found in traditional households during the periods of late Imperial to early Republican China. The talk will consider the visual functions of ancestor worship and its importance beyond serving as ritual objects for average Chinese families. Dr. Cheng received her Ph. D. in the History of Art at the University of Michigan, with a specialty in pre-modern Chinese painting. She is the Louise Hawley Stone Chair of Chinese Art at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of East Asia Studies at the University of Toronto. At ROM, she co-curated a major exhibition, the Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors in 2014. She was the main contributor to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition held at Berlin 2017-18, Faces of China: Chinese Portrait Painting of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1912), which includes the loan of over 40 Chinese portrait paintings from the ROM. Last year she co-curated another exhibition, Gods in My Home: Chinese New Year with Ancestor Portraits and Deity Prints. The exhibit features a selection of ancestral portrait paintings and popular prints that traditionally were part of lunar New Year observances and celebrations in Chinese households. How to Join the Webinar Just click on the link below and then follow the instructions on the screen. You will be asked to download the Zoom app if this is your first Zoom meeting, or you can do that on an earlier date. And have the meeting ID and passcode handy. Topic: My Meeting Time: Nov 22, 2020 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79185536129 Meeting ID: 791 8553 6129 Passcode: QuVx9v

This note is a reminder of our virtual meeting today at 7:30 pm. Jeff Zhang, who is the Ontario Director of the CCBC, will be speaking about its activities here and in China. Time: Oct 25, 2020 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)... Join Zoom Meeting at: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/98793470310 Meeting ID: 987 9347 0310 Passcode: 934562