Photo gallery: Chinese New Year celebration

February 17, 2015  


Chinese New Year

The annual Chinese New Year's Reception took place Monday in  Purdue Memorial Union's South Ballroom. (Purdue University  photo/Mark Simons)
Download Photo

Purdue began its celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Sheep on Monday (Feb. 16) with the annual Chinese New Year's Reception in  Purdue Memorial Union's South Ballroom. A photo gallery of the reception is here.

The event included Chinese food, music and calligraphy demonstrations. There also were performances of folk dances by the Confucius Institute Performing Arts Troupe and lion dances by the Purdue Department of Theatre. The lion dance is a traditional Chinese dance that is more than 1,000 years old and often part of New Year's celebrations and other traditional festivals.

"This annual celebration has continued to grow in popularity, allowing for an expansion of events to include a full week of sponsored lectures, discussions, film viewings and other programs for the general public," said Wei Hong, the director of the Confucius Institute at Purdue and a professor in the School of Languages and Cultures. "We are pleased to partner with the Department of Theatre, the Chinese Program and the Comparative Literature Department."

The celebration will continue with these events, which are free and open to the public:

* Feb. 17. 10:30-11:45 a.m. Rawls Hall, Room 2070. "Vernacular Drama and Fiction," presented by Sabina Knight a Chinese professor at Smith College. A seminar discussion sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department. Due to weather, Knight will present via Skype.

* Feb. 18. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall. The day of the 2015 Chinese New Year, "Lucky Lanterns," will be performed by the co-sponsoring Department of Theatre in the Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for those attending the original one-act play. Purdue students will also perform this Educational Outreach Project for local elementary schools.

* Feb. 19. 4-5:30 p.m. Stanley Coulter, Room 239. "Chinese New Year: A Changing Tradition seen through films and popular entertainment." A Chinese Studies Colloquium by Jinhua Li, assistant professor of Chinese studies and language of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, sponsored by the Confucius Institute at Purdue and the Chinese Program in the School of Languages and Cultures. 

A lecture and book signing set for Feb. 17 have been postponed because invited speakers from the eastern United States cannot travel here due to weather. Details are here.

Faculty-Staff News

More News

Purdue University, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907, (765) 494-4600

© 2014-18 Purdue University | An equal access/equal opportunity university | Integrity Statement | Copyright Complaints | Brand Toolkit | Maintained by Marketing and Media

Trouble with this page? Disability-related accessibility issue? Please contact us at online@purdue.edu so we can help.