The Renwen Society at China Institute presents a film screening of the documentary Dreaming Against the World on Mu Xin, one of the most original and overlooked Chinese artists and authors of the past century on May 21, 2016, 2-4 pm.

Mu Xin (1927-2011) is the pen name of a renowned Chinese writer and artist. Born in Wuzhen, near Shanghai, China, into a wealthy aristocratic family, Mu Xin was among those in the last generation to receive a classical education in the literati tradition, while at the same time he was also exposed through voluminous reading to the highest achievements of Western art and culture at a very young age. In 2006, Mu Xin returned to China, after living in NYC since 1982, at the invitation of Wuzhen Township, where the local government had renovated his family house. The same year, his writings were published for the first time in Mainland China. A selection of Mu Xin's prose fiction, An Empty Room, was published in English by New Directions Publishing in New York in 2011. Last year Mu Xin Museum in his hometown Wuzhen was opened to public.

Joanne Wang, the Associate Producer of the film and the literary agent of Mu Xin's books, will give an introduction and the showing of the film will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

This program will be in English.