Xu Xing: Discussion
Please join us as we welcome Chinese Documentary Filmmaker Xu Xing to BU for a residency with the Center for Study of Asia. Lunch will be provided on Tuesday, February 6th from 12:30 pm to 2 pm at the BU Arts Initiative Office Suite 201. Join us anytime during lunch. RSVP Here!
XU Xing 徐星 is a prominent Chinese writer and documentary filmmaker. Often called “The Chinese Jack Kerouac”, his works have consistently engaged with national and international issues of politics, power, and moral responsibility. At the same time these larger issues are always evoked through the lives of the common working people in China. We are delighted to announce that with support from the BU Arts Initiative and the BU Center for the Humanities, we have invited XU Xing to Boston University as BUCSA’s first incumbent of the Artist and Writer in Residence program. With this program we hope to provide opportunities for our students and faculty to interact with unusual and outstanding writers and artists as an interdisciplinary and cross-school collaborative experience.
Xu Xing will be in residence at Boston University from early February until late April. He will be co-teaching a film course with Prof. Cathy Yeh on the New Chinese documentary movement which began during the 1990s and continues until today. His films will be screened during the time he is at BU and he will offer several workshops on different aspects of documentary film making. In addition to one public lecture at BU, he will be also be reaching out to the greater Boston community where he will be giving lectures and screenings of his films.