Our Summer Institute finally opened on June 22nd! A great success! Good turnout, excellent talks, and the best audience! We are grateful for our speakers Prof. Zhang, Ming and Prof. Sang, Tze-lan who talked about The Singing of Song in Song Dynasty Cities and Its Cultural Significance and Negotiating Socialist Industrial Heritage in Post-1979 China: The Case of Harbin. Wonderful talks and great interaction with the audience! We also feel indebted to our sponsors whose generous support made our event possible. As we say in Chinese: 开门红:greeted with red at the opening!

Dr. Ahmad Ezzeddine from the Office of the Provost opened our institute:

Dr. Walter Edwards from the Wayne State Humanities Center gave a welcome speech:

Dr. Stephanie Hartwell, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gave a speech:

Prof. Zhang, Ming of Peking University met with his former classmates who traveled from Toronto for  his talk:

Prof. Zhang’s talk, translated by his former student, Prof. Zhang, Yunshuang, our assistant professor of Chinese literature

The reception

Prof. Sang’s talk.

How can any opening ceremony be complete without a Twitter story from our Dean Hartwell.