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Video List 
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Welcome to our First Saturday PDX growing list of videos, starting with the current 2020 - 2021 twentieth anniversary season - our debut collection of online programs!  Stamp Collecting in 1950's China,   The History of the Chile Pepper in China,  Tales of a Female Rebel in 18th Century China, The Chinese Textile Collection at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and ​​Historical Tea Preparation and Consumption in China are all part of this season's schedule.​

This season runs from 12 September, 2020 through 5 June, 2021 - registration is required for each of the free live events; available on the Upcoming Presentation page. ​  Links to our YouTube Channel below:

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2020 - 2021  -  Our 20th Anniversary Season! 
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12 September, 2020
Collecting Under Socialism:  Philately in 1950's China 
Wendy Larson, PhD,  University of Oregon 
Further information here 
Video here
3 October, 2020  
Chinese Art Collection at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art  
​Anne Rose Kitagawa, M.A., Chief Curator of Collections and Asian Art, Director of Academic Programs,  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon 
Further information here
Video here
7 November, 2020
The Real Mulan? Tales of a Female Rebel in 18th century China
Cecily McCaffrey, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Willamette University  
Further information here 
Video here​
5 December, 2020
Spice it Up! ​How the Chile Pepper Flavored Chinese Culture 
Brian Dott, PhD, ​Associate Professor of History, Whitman College
Further information here 
Video here
9 January, 2021 
A Century of Collecting Chinese Painting at Oberlin College  
Kevin Greenwood PhD,  Joan L. Danforth Curator of Asian Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum (ANAM) at Oberlin College
Further information here 
Video here
6 February, 2021
The First Twenty Years of First Saturday PDX
A retrospective of twenty seasons of First Saturday PDX - our history and just a few of our 180 programs!
Further information here 
Video here
6 February, 2021
Welcoming the Year of the Ox, 4719
Join us in a Spring Festival Chinese New Year Meal Tour!
Further information here 
Video here

​6 March, 2021
Artistic Exchange Between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Dawn Odell, PhD, Associate Professor of Art History, Lewis & Clark College
Further information here 
Video here
3 April, 2021
The Scholar’s Retreat:
Loss and Resilience in the Chinese Landscape and Garden 
Ann Wetherell, PhD
Further information here 
Video here
1 May, 2021
Simmering, Whisking, Steeping: Methods for Preparing and Consuming Tea in Premodern China
James A. Benn PhD
Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions, McMaster University 
Director,  McMaster University Centre for Buddhist Studies ​
Further information here 
Video here
5 June, 2021
Silk and Sericulture: Beauty Inspired by a Social Contract
Ina Asim PhD, Associate Professor, Pre-Modern Chinese History
University of Oregon
PLEASE REGISTER  on our Upcoming Presentation page to receive online attendance details.
Our program series has support from Portland State University's Institute for Asian Studies, Northwest China Council and Lan Su Chinese Garden.   All programs are free and open to the public.   
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When we return to onsite programming, our regular monthly location is here with an elevator and is wheelchair friendly with unrestricted viewing and tables for note taking.  9:30 - 11:00 am  (click on address for directions):    
Portland State University, Academic & Student Recreation Ctr (ASRC),  Room 230
1800 SW 6th Ave, Portland OR 97201
Excellent MAX and bus transportation is right by the venue; plan your Trimet trip HERE.   There is also a nearby parking structure at SW 6th and Harrison with an entrance on 6th Avenue is also available.