Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Friday September 30th was the 2012 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival, which is a holiday celebrated in Chinese and Vietnamese culture. The IAS had our own Mooncake festival celebration on Monday Oct 1st. The tradition of eating mooncakes during this festival allegedly began with a “14th-century uprising against the Mongols, when […]

Global Lens Film Series: Dooman River

Free screening of the film Dooman River on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, 5:30 pm. DOOMAN RIVER, dir. Zhang Lu, China, 2009 Two boys on opposite sides of the Chinese-Korean border strike a playful friendship that comes under scrutiny and strain after a series of thefts […]

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