This past November, a delegation of outstanding American cultural figures including Meryl Streep and Yo-Yo Ma traveled to Beijing to take part in four days of unprecedented cultural exchange.
The Aspen Institute Arts Program is pleased to announce the first ever US-China Forum on Arts and Culture. Scheduled for November 16 – 19, 2011 in Beijing, China, the Forum will launch a series of cultural exchanges seeking to strengthen mutual understanding between Americans and Chinese. A terrific cast of American cultural representatives – Yo-Yo Ma, Meryl Streep, Joel Coen, Amy Tan, Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and others – will collaborate and perform with their Chinese artistic...