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Academic Year 2023 - 2024

  

Flyer for a film festival advertising the documentary "The Mountain Path". The image shows a monk with his back toward the camera, seated reading.

Film Screening: "The Mountain Path" by Edward Burger

A spirited young man journeys into the mountains of China in search of a Buddhist hermit master. Along the trail he meets an unexpected cast of dedicated recluses; the gaunt ascetic, the persevering nun, a wise old master and his disciples, all who, despite living far from the world, teach him all about how to live within it.

 

Edward A. Burger lived in China for over twelve years and is one of the few foreigners to have lived and studied with the hermits of the Zhongnan Mountains. The Mountain Path recounts his personal journey, including the story of how he found his lifelong teacher and entered into the world of these dedicated recluses. We witness the practical everyday challenges of mountain solitude, while the hermits share precious teachings on life, death and the journey within.

Book title "Enchanted Revolution" by Xiaofei Kang. Cover image shows a Chinese woman looking to the sky.

Book Launch: Enchanted Revolution by GW Prof. Xiaofei Kan

The Chinese Arts & Humanities Initiative sponsored the launch of Department of Religion Professor Xiaofe Kang's book "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953". The book launch was part of the broader 2024 Spring Conference hosted by the China Affairs Forum, a GW student organization that is "dedicated to studying China from an objective and nonpartisan perspective."

Professor Kang gave a book talk and Q&A before raffling off 3 copies of her new book. 

Academic Year 2022 - 2023

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