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2010-2011 USCI Events
Below are some of the many events USCI sponsored in 2010-2011.
March 19, 2011
Click here for the USCI 2010-2011 Documentary Series Schedule.
May 11, 2011
US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Theoretical Context and Empirical Foundations
Yi Feng is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Claremont Graduate University. He teaches international political economy, world politics, and methodology. His research has focused on political and economic development. His China-focused publications address financial markets, labor markets, economic growth, foreign direct investment, and trade policy.
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May 9, 2011
China: The Pessoptimist Nation
William A. Callahan will speak on how the rise of China presents various long-term challenges to the world. Callahan is Chair Professor of International Politics and China Studies at the University of Manchester, and Co-Director of the British Inter-University China Centre, Oxford University. Callahan’s research explores the interplay between ideas and policy, and the dynamic relationship of culture and politics.
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May 5, 2011
Scholar and business leader Robert Kapp examines U.S.-China relations. For ten years, Kapp was President of the U.S.-China Business Council, the preeminent organization of companies involved in U.S.-China investment and trade. Since 2004, he’s been Principal of Robert A. Kapp and Associates, a business consulting firm. Prior to assuming the Council Presidency, Dr. Kapp taught Chinese history at Rice University and the University of Washington and served as editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
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April 28, 2011
The Rise of China and the East Asian Regional Order
There is a complex power transition taking place in the world in general and in East Asia in particular, where both the United States and China struggle to expand their respective influences without disrupting the foundation of prosperity and stability of the region. Speakers included Princeton University’s G. John Ikenberry, Singapore Management University’s James T. H. Tang, USC’s Daniel Lynch and David Kang. This event was co-sponsored by USC US-China Institute, Center for International Studies, Korean Studies Institute, School of International Relations and East Asian Studies Center.
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April 27, 2011
China's Rise and East Asia's Regional Systems
Professor James T.H. Tang is Dean and Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University (SMU). He is a specialist in international relations with special reference to China/Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. He spoke about his current project on the implications of the rise of China for international relations theory and regional governance in East Asia.
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April 11, 2011
Is there a civil-military gap in China's peaceful rise?
RAND scholar Andrew Scobell spoke on civil-military gap in China's peaceful rise. Scobell is Senior Political Scientist at RAND's Washington, DC office. Prior to this he was Associate Professor of International Affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service (with tenure) and Director of the China Certificate Program at Texas A&M University located in College Station, Texas.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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April 7, 2011
Kevin Gallagher and Enrique Dussel Peters examined China's relationship with Latin America. Gallagher teaches international relations at Boston University. He also directs the Institute for China-Mexico Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Enrique Dussel Peters teaches at the graduate School of Economics at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Both presented research from their recently edited books on industrialization and other issues.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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March 4-5, 2011
Was There a Historical East Asian International System? Impact, Meaning, and Conceptualization
This conference features a dialogue between a distinguished group of historians and political scientists specializing on China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. This event was co-sponsored with the USC Korean Studies Institute, Center for International Studies, The East Asian Studies Center, and American University.
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February 25-26, 2011
The State of the Chinese Economy: Implications for China and the World
This major USC US-China Institute conference examined the health and future of the Chinese economy and assessed China's economic ties with the US and others. Provost Elizabeth Garrett introduced Caixin Media editor-in-chief Hu Shuli as the keynote speaker. More than twenty leading scholars from three continents spoke at the conference.
Numerous online videos of the presentations are available on our Youtube Channel.
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February 23, 2011
Is China Becoming a Mafia State?
John Garnaut is the China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers. He has written for other publications including Caijing Magazine, Tempo (Indonesia), The Diplomat (Australia) and the International Herald Tribune.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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February 22, 2011
Tim Johnson, an award-winning journalist, spoke on his new book discussing the Dalai Lama's success winning worldwide support but having little impact on Chinese policy towards Tibet. Johnson has spent the last twenty years as a foreign correspondent for the Miami Herald and the McClatchy Company. He was McClatchy’s Beijing bureau chief and is now based in Mexico City.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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February 10, 2011
Varieties of Authoritarianism: Comparing China and Russia
Thomas Berstein is professor Emeritus in Political Science at Columbia University. He is a specialist on comparative politics, with a focus on China as well as on communist systems. His studies focus on the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union and China and of the two famines that each country experienced in the l930's and late l950's. Bernstein's recent writings focus on state-peasant relations in China’s reform period.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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January 27, 2011
Assessing China's Global Image and Soft Power
David Shambaugh teaches at George Washington University and heads the University's China Policy Program. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of International Studies (SAIS), and B.A. in east asian studies from The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He edited The China Quarterly and worked for the State Department.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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January 20, 2011
China Below the Radar and Down Under
Rowan Callick examined the unsung heroes working to address pressing social problems in China as well as discussing the Communist Party and China’s relations with Australia. Callick, The Australian’s Asia-Pacific editor, was the newspaper’s Beijing-based China correspondent for three years until returning to Melbourne at the start of 2009. Callick won the Graham Perkin Award for Journalist of the Year for 1995, and two Walkley Awards, for Asia-Pacific coverage in 1997 and 2007.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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December 1, 2010
Film Screening: Last Train Home
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration - an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Director Fan Lixin follows a migrant worker couple on their annual trek home to Sichuan Province where their children are being raised by family members.
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November 8, 2010
Student Voices: Summer Programs in China
USC offers a variety of summer overseas study opportunities for students who wish to learn more about China, improve their Chinese language skills, continue their research on Chinese studies, or gain valuable field experience where they can apply what they've learned at USC. Seven students from these programs talk about their experience and how their time in China enhanced their overall USC experience.
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November 2, 2010
US-China FilmCo-Production Summit
Film industry leaders from China and Hollywood - including top executives, government officials, producers, professionals and creatives - participated in an informative afternoon on the latest trends in US-China co-productions and collaborations. The US-China Film Summit highlighted the growing entertainment media opportunities between established Hollywood and rapidly-emerging China.
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November 1, 2010
China and the Global Environment Challenges Ahead
Jonathan Watts is the Asia Environment Correspondent for The Guardian and a former President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China. He has spent seven years in China, seven years in Japan, made five trips to North Korea, and covered the 2004 tsunami, the 2008 Tibetan unrest, Sichuan earthquake and Beijing Olympics. He is the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump (2010), a journey through an environment in crisis.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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October 27, 2010
Rae Chang and Adam Tow's documentary tells the story of a radical women's rights activist who defied tradition to become the leader of a revolutionary army. Using scholar interviews, archival materials, and dramatic recreation scenes based on her original writings, Autumn Gem brings the story of Qiu Jin to life.
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October 13, 2010
The Week that Changed the World: Nixon Goes to China and China in Today's World
The USC U.S.-China Institute and the Richard Nixon Foundation and Nixon Center hosted panels focusing on the opening to China, and on what China's rise means to the world. Nixon aides Dwight Chapin, Larry Higby, and John Brennan and six scholars from USC and the Nixon Center spoke.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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October 4, 2010
The Vanishing Glaciers of the Himalaya
David Breashears, the photographer behind the Rivers of Ice show discussed climate change and the glaciers of the Himalayas. Breashears has reached the summit of Mount Everest five times and directed the acclaimed IMAX documentary Everest. He founded the Glacier Imaging Research Project, which has retraced the steps of some of the world's greatest mountain photographers as they took pictures - many of them not previously published or displayed - over the past 100 years across the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau.
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September 23, 2010
"Ethnic Conflicts" or "Social Riots?" How to Understand Ethnic Relations in Xinjiang
Professor Yang Zhongdong talked about ethnic relations in Xinjiang. Yang's research focus is contemporary Muslim communities in Xinjiang Province. Born in Urumqi, the region’s capital, Yang is a Hui, a Muslim ethnic minority and teaches at Xinjiang University. As a scholar in Hui Studies, a fairly new discipline, Professor Yang emphasizes the importance of the ethnological research.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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September 16, 2010
Rong Ying examined the China-India relationship in the past six decades. Dr. Rong is the Vice President and Senior Research Fellow of the China Institute of International Studies. Ying’s major areas of interest include China's foreign relations and U.S. foreign policy and political and security issues in South Asia. He has recently co-edited two books: A Bluebook on International Situation and China’s Foreign Affairs and India’s Rise and the China-India Relations.
An online video of the presentation is available here.
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2012-2013 Events
2011-2012 Events
2009-2010 Events/Documentary Series
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