In March 1973, Spain and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations that this year they arrive at their 50 anniversary. From ethen, Both countries have developedn Marco stable of relationships and cooperación in the field institutional, as well as in the cultural and economic. Moreover, China and Spain they signed andl Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement that both countries signed in 2005. On the occasion of this anniversary Casa Asia has organized a programming special.
Planned activities
Show Am The Bruce Lees
The work covers the search for identity through dance: from the origin, personal development and professional journey, to their ideals or desires to give them body and life in this show halfway between dance and martial arts. A tragicomic performance with the aim of exposing racism on stage.
Organizers Casa Asia and the Confuci Institute Foundation of Barcelona (FICB).
Location: La Caldera, Barcelona
Date: 4 / 03 / 2023
Cultural walking route “China in BCN” to learn about the history of Chinese immigration
In collaboration with CultRuta, we organized a walking route through the center of Barcelona to discover China without leaving the city, while exploring the history of the Chinese presence from the first Chinese immigrants who chose Barcelona as a destination to the present day. .
Two routes are organized, on April 16 and May 13, at 11.00:XNUMX a.m. and lasting two hours. They will be guided by Sílvia Company Salip, a graduate in Chinese Translation and Interpretation from the UAB, and a diploma in Chinese Studies from the University of Bordeaux.
Date: April 16 and May 13. Barcelona
Conferences on translation and teaching of Chinese from Spanish
The intention of these sessions is to put on the table the vitality of our sinology, the achievements, but also the challenges and objectives for the future. These sessions consist of three round tables organized in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the University of Granada:
Webinar: «Linguistics and teaching of Chinese in Spain»
April 17 at 18.00:12.00 p.m. (Shanghai time) / XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. (local time)
Webinar: «Contemporary translated literature»
April 18, 18.30:12.30 p.m. (Shanghai time) / XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. (local time)
Webinar: «Classical Chinese literature in translation»
April 19, 18.30:12.30 p.m. (Shanghai time) / XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. (local time)
Colloquium on the “Nixon in China” Opera
On the occasion of the premiere at the Teatro Real of nixons in china, an opera in three acts by American composer John Adams, en This colloquium will discuss the reasons and consequences of the historic visit of North American President Richard Nixon to Mao Zedong's China in 1972, and the parallels between the situation in which the world found itself when this trip took place half a year ago will be analyzed. century and the current geopolitical reality.
Presented by:Fernando Olives Gomila, director of Cultural Promotion and New Audiences of the Teatro Real
Participants:
Carmen Noceda, doctor in musicology and postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research in Opera and Music Theater (University of Sussex)
Emilio de Miguel, Center Director Casa Asia-Madrid
José Mª de Areilza, general secretary of Aspen Institute Spain
Organizers Casa Asia, Teatro Real and Casa América.
Date: April 19, 2023 at 19.30:XNUMX p.m. at the Teatro Real in Madrid
Round table: "The new European framework for collaboration in science, innovation and technology with China"
This round table analyzes the future of cooperation in science, technology and innovation with China. With the main objective of identifying ways of collaboration with Chinese innovation agents for the development of joint projects within the framework of Horizon Europe, the current situation of cooperation, new challenges and existing financing possibilities are discussed.
Date: April 20, 2023, at Casa Seat, Barcelona.
2nd International Workshop on the Chinese Development Model
China has decades of sustained and unprecedented economic growth rates averaging 10% annually. China has become the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity (PPP) with the world's largest overall banking sector and is home to the second largest number of billionaires.
Lecture by Dr. Shaohua Chen: Poverty, Inequality and Common Prosperity: Has China Transformed into a High-Income Category?
Lecture by Dr. Scott Rozelle: “Common prosperity” for China begins between 0 and 3 years old
Dates: 1 and 2 of June of 2023
Lecture: «The Seven Beauties, the 12th century Persian poem that inspired Puccini in Turandot»
This lecture analyzes this poem and its author, as well as 12th-century Persian literature and the later context in which the opera was written.
Presented by:
Menene Gras, director of Culture and Exhibitions of Casa Asia
Participates:
Tea Vardosanidze, president of the Spanish Society of Iranology since 2020, Persian language translator and interpreter. Postgraduate Diploma in Persian Language and Literature from the Ivane Javakhishvili University of Tbilisi.
Wednesday June 14 from 18.00:19.30 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. CEST at the Center Casa Asia-Madrid
Casa Asia in the Villa Summers «Cao Yuxi Exhibition: Seasonal Proximities»
Casa Asia collaborates with the Veranos de la Villa Festival and the Chinese Cultural Center of Madrid in the exhibition “Seasonal Proximities” by digital artist Cao Yuxi. China is the guest country in the 2023 edition of the festival on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Spain.
From July 11 to August 6. From Tuesday to Friday from 11.00:20.00 a.m. to 12.00:20.00 p.m. Saturdays from 12.00:18.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Sundays from XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
Belgian Sawmill Cultural Space. Calle Alameda, 15. Madrid
Feminine voices
Series of literary gatherings that proposes to bring the interested public closer to some of the most prominent authors of the modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone scene. Through the reading of stories or novels by writers from not only China, but also Hong Kong and Taiwan, we propose a literary journey that is presented as an encounter between the readers of the selected story (or novel) and Antonio Paoliello and Teresa I. Tejeda. These experts in Chinese language and Sinophone literature will help contextualize the historical, social and cultural environment to which the author and her work belong, as well as their impact on the literary sector, both in the Chinese-speaking world and in other regions of the world. world.
Books and dates:
September: A LOVE THAT DESTROYS CITIES (by Eileen Chang, translation by Anne-Hélène Suárez and Qu Xianghong)
October: to be determined
November: POSTHUMOUS LETTERS FROM MONTMARTRE (Qiu Miaojin, translation by Belén Cuadra Mora)
December: THE HEAD (Dorothy Tse, translation by Juan José Ciruela)
January: FIELDS OF LIFE AND DEATH (Xiao Hong, translation Teresa I. Tejeda Martín)
Cycle organized in collaboration with the Confucius Institute and DigiTrans (project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation)
Rchinese film director introspection Wang Chao within the framework of the XI Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN 2023)
Wang Chao (Nanjing, 1964) is the author of a dozen films, including “The Orphan of Anyang” (2001), which was selected for the Cannes Directors' Fortnight; “Luxyry Car” (2006), which won the award for best film in Un Certains Regard at the Cannes Film Festival; “Fantasía” (2014), which also competed in the aforementioned section of the French competition, or “A Woman” which participated in the official competition section of the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF).
A selection of this filmmaker's films can be seen in this new edition of the AFFBCN at the Cinemes Girona and at the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
Date: from October 25 to November 5, 2023
Dialogue: “50 years of Spain-China diplomatic relations. A view from Catalonia”
In March 1973, diplomatic relations were established between Spain and the People's Republic of China. Almost a quarter of a century had passed since the founding of the People's Republic of China and the Spanish government under the Franco regime decided to take the step of diplomatically recognizing Mao Zedong's new China.
This conference will review these five decades of relationships through protagonists who have been direct witnesses of the evolution of this relationship through their respective fields of work such as journalism, academia and diplomacy.
With the participation of Eugenio Bregolat, Ambassador of Spain in China (1986-1991, 1999-2003, and 2011-2015) and sergi vincent, director of Betevé and former TV3 correspondent in China.
Date: October 26, 2023 at 18.00:XNUMX p.m. CEST
Concert by the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra and Choir (RTVE)
Commemorative concert with Chinese and Spanish musical repertoire organized together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Casa Asia and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, with the collaboration of the China Cultural Center in Madrid.
Place: Monumental Theater of Madrid
Date: December 1, 2023
