Detail: Envisioning China: A Festival of Arts and Culture is an upcoming five-month festival featuring over 40 events and exhibitions related to Chinese cultural history at the University of Chicago. The majority of the diverse selection of art, film, music, and performance events will be free and open to the public, supporting the festival's mission of creating a dialogue around Chinese art and heritage.

The new festival will launch with the opening of the Smart Museum of Art's Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture (February 13–June 15, 2014), an exhibition of late imperial Chinese works, and present varied offerings throughout the University of Chicago campus. These will include everything from screenings of classic Chinese opera films to world premiere performances by acclaimed Chinese musicians.

The festival continues through June with art, film, music, conversation, and performances organized by UChicago's Center for the Art of East Asia, Center for East Asian Studies, Court Theatre, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of Visual Arts, Doc Films, Film Studies Center, Oriental Institute, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, and University of Chicago Presents, as well as other collaborative partners.