Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Waging a Living in China
University of Pennsylvania's Center for East Asian Studies presents a talk by Maris Gillette on the shift to a market economy has affected porcelain industry workers in Jingdezhen, China.
When:
March 18, 2010 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Maris Gillette, Haverford College
Dr. Gillette will talk about how the shift to a market economy has affected porcelain industry workers in Jingdezhen, China. After the central government withdrew financial support from Jingdezhen 's porcelain industry in the mid-1990s, ten state enterprise, four city enterprise, and more than a dozen collective porcelain factories went out of business. Tens of thousands of workers lost their jobs and were forced to reinvent their livelihoods. Dr. Gillette will discuss how privatization has affected employment opportunities and reshaped the industry.
Issues in Contemporary East Asia Lecture Series
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.