In our event calendar you will find current cultural events related to Chinese culture in Switzerland. We are thankful for your tips regarding interesting events.
Please send your information to info@sinokultur.ch.
Cultural Events ⟩ Agenda
In our event calendar you will find current cultural events related to Chinese culture in Switzerland. We are thankful for your tips regarding interesting events.
Please send your information to info@sinokultur.ch.
We would like to invite you to our private tour of the exhibition: “Mongolia – A Journey Through Time” on Wednesday, November 26th from 6 to 7 pm at Rietberg Museum in Zurich.
Across the vast steppes of Mongolia once stretched a vibrant space intricately connected with Europe and East Asia. Trade routes, artisans, writing cultures, and cultural exchange linked this region with China and the broader East Asian world.
Alexandra von Przychowski will guide us through the exhibition with a special focus on the relationship between Mongolia and China. Alexandra von Przychowski is a curator for the art of China, Central Asia, and the Himalayan region, and has been working at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich since 1997.
The tour will be held in English.
Please purchase your entrance ticket for the reduced price of CHF 14 upon arrival at the museum. The sinokultur ticket only covers the guided tour.
Date: Wendesday, November 26th from 6 to 7pm, arrive early for entrance ticket purchase
Location: Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15, Zurich
For tickets click here.
The Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich would like to invite you to the talk "Beyond Escapism and Subversion: Fantasy Fiction in Post-Socialist China" by Jun. Prof. Dr. Jessica Imbach (Universität Freiburg) on December 18th.
Over the past decade, Chinese fantasy fiction has experienced an extraordinary boom, both in print and online. This surge is in many ways an outcome of broader transformations of the post-socialist era such as economic liberalization, the rise of cultural capitalism, and the rapid digitization of everyday life. At the same time, the boom has unfolded under increasingly stringent media control, especially under Xi Jinping.
How can we make sense of the scope, diversity, and popularity of fantasy fiction in this environment? Existing frameworks tend to read fantasy either as an escapist commodity, the inevitable outcome of a heavily commercialized cultural sphere, or as a subversive allegory, a coded mode of critique in a tightly monitored media environment.
These two interpretive frameworks, fantasy as escapist commodity and fantasy as subversive allegory, offer important insights, but neither can account for the ideological and aesthetic diversity of contemporary Chinese fantasy worlds. Rather than normative analysis of fantasy fiction as distraction from reality or as coded modes of resistance, Jessica Imbach argues in this talk for a more nuanced and historically-informed approach that studies Chinese fantasy fiction in relation to traditions of literary realism, the shifting structures of the cultural economy, and the evolving sensibilities of China’s digital publics.
Date: 18. December 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Location: Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Rämistrasse 59, CH-8001 Zürich, Raum RAA-E-21
All fields are required.