{"title": "Carved in Stone, Carried Across Deserts: Migration, Cultural Exchange, and the Art of the Silk Road", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "$20 Members, $30 Nonmembers", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://join.asiasociety.org/orders/513/tickets?cdEventIds=6a7a14f5b991545cc04f4acd&date=2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00&eventId=6a7a14f5b991545cc04f4acd", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/art-history", "history/middle-ages"], "description": "A book conversation on migration, cultural exchange, and visual art along the Silk Road, part of Asia Society's Museum Salon Series. Dr. Jin Xu of Columbia University discusses his new book, The Silk Road with Many Faces: Sogdian Immigrants in Early Medieval China, with Dr. Xiaohan Du, curator of pre-modern Asian art at Asia Society Museum. Drawing on stone sarcophagi excavated in recent decades, the book reconstructs the lives of elite Sogdian immigrants in sixth-century China, whose merchant communities dominated the Silk Road trade from the third to the ninth century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/carved-in-stone-carried-across-deserts-migration-cultural-ex-51117/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/carved-stone-carried-across-deserts-migration-cultural-exchange-and-art-silk-road", "image": "https://noky.io/images/84c2d72f0bbbb9533791805915f9f6d6229a067878707936ca6f9659d897ec1d-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Adrift in the South: China's Migrant Literature", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "$30 nonmember / $20 member", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://join.asiasociety.org/orders/513/tickets?cdEventIds=6a7b72b70558251e70535d86&date=2026-10-30T18:30:00-04:00&eventId=6a7b72b70558251e70535d86", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "literature"], "description": "A book talk on the rise of China's migrant worker literature, in conversation. It features Xiao Hai, author of \"Adrift in the South\" (Granta, 2026), an autobiographical account of his 23 years as a migrant laborer in 17 jobs across seven Chinese cities, alongside its translator Tony Hao, with discussion moderated by Alec Ash, Editor of China Books Review, which presents the event. Copies of the book will be on sale, with the author available to sign them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adrift-in-the-south-chinas-migrant-literature-51112/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/center-us-china-relations/events/adrift-south-chinas-migrant-literature", "image": "https://noky.io/images/afb5c814dbd2293e52a7eaacda07ea7703ebfbbb97f970eb057376a966433c00-600.webp"}, {"title": "Book Club: Adrift in the South (Xiao Hai)", "start": "2026-11-03T17:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://join.asiasociety.org/orders/513/tickets?cdEventIds=6abea9477170be9d651150da&date=2026-11-03T17:30:00-05:00&eventId=6abea9477170be9d651150da", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "society/migration"], "description": "A book club meeting to discuss the memoir Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai. It is part of the China Books Review book club, a bimonthly series hosted by its editors, and focuses on migrant workers' literature — the book recounts the '23 dreamlike years' a Chinese migrant laborer spent working 17 jobs in seven cities. Readers should read their own copy in advance and RSVP, as seats are limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-club-adrift-in-the-south-xiao-hai-51115/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/center-us-china-relations/events/book-club-adrift-south-xiao-hai", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d17544e4c07d523dfb5db3e029a8dba0970bf372da92e63769b5fefa2fe5bbaf-600.webp"}, {"title": "BONE ASH, MEMORY HOLES, THE RECIPES", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "NARS Foundation", "address": "46th Street 201, 11220", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "society/migration"], "description": "BONE ASH, MEMORY HOLES, THE RECIPES is a solo exhibition of works by Yoshie Sugito at the NARS Foundation's Project Space. The Berlin-based Japanese visual artist tracks 13 Sichuan pickle jars that traveled from New York across the West Coast, Taiwan, and Berlin. Through recipes, notes, and drawings gathered along migrant networks and domestic spaces, she explores how culture mutates across borders. Her wider practice spans painting, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, and participatory installation, gathering personal stories and lived experiences into visual and material forms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bone-ash-memory-holes-the-recipes-54076/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6dbb36400dd518fe6ca5b54c227abeb6019a70a043235d866c933f8c0c8d9852-2000.webp"}, {"title": "[In Chinese] 725 Salon: Xu Jilin", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "$20 members / $30 nonmembers", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://join.asiasociety.org/orders/513/tickets?cdEventIds=6ad11a6213e5a134f0e71f6a&date=2026-11-09T18:30:00-05:00&eventId=6ad11a6213e5a134f0e71f6a", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "An in-person salon in Chinese, with AI-translated English subtitles, in which historian Xu Jilin traces the intellectual transformations and historical experiences of Chinese intellectuals from the late Qing dynasty and the May Fourth Movement to the present day. Drawing on his own liberal perspective, Professor Xu revisits a century of Enlightenment ideals, intellectual debates, and historical choices, and explores intellectuals' place and responsibilities today. Xu Jilin is a Zijiang Scholar and Professor of History at East China Normal University and Deputy Director of its Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture. The salon is moderated by Ouyang Bin, Associate Director for China Programs at the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, and is presented by the Asia Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-chinese-725-salon-xu-jilin-51120/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/center-us-china-relations/events/chinese-725-salon-xu-jilin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0af24d5dab9fbd5c02fc665a6419acef5d2ce8f07f08c27bf130eb8a2696f05a-600.webp"}, {"title": "MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival: Becoming", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "General Admission: $20 | MOCA Member Admission: $15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-5", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival: Becoming is a live performance at the Museum of Chinese in America in which immigrant artists share stories of migration, transformation, and becoming. It was conceived by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li and is devised and performed by Shan Y. Chuang, Nikkiesha N. McLeod, Timmy Ong, Pascal Phoa, Jeremy Rafal, Nedelka Sotelo, and Fang Tseng. Seven immigrant artists from Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago reflect on their journeys to the United States—what they had to learn to survive and build a life, what they chose to carry with them from home, and what new parts of themselves emerged along the way. Through personal narration, poetry, music, dance, and stand-up comedy, they share these experiences on stage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-54048/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-5/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f76fac89e905abd68b0a491b4c2addb494e8784b35b03b7c92e6f7bd935dcc6c-1200.webp"}]}