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.
Film Screenings: Shanghai Bride & Mr. Wong's World
The Shanghai Cinema at the Asian Arts Museum will show two final films that feature Shanghai, China.
When:
September 5, 2010 11:00am to 3:30pm
Where
Don't miss the closing day of Shanghai Cinema at the Asian Art Museum. This event will feature two film screenings and a chance to meet Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of Global Shanghai, 1850-2010.
11:00 am: Shanghai Bride. This film documents the materialistic and competitive nature of Shanghai's marriage market. (51 minutes, in Mandarin and Shanghainese with English subtitles.)
2:00 pm: Mr. Wong's World: Saving the Architectural Heritage of Shanghai. A wealthy businessman has made it his mission to rescue old houses, villas, and temples threatened as a result of Shanghai's unprecedented building boom. (80 minutes, in Mandarin with English subtitles.)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at University of California, Irvine, the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, and author, most recently, of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know. A co-founder of and regular contributor to The China Beat: Blogging How the East is Read, and a co-editor of China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, he has contributed commentaries and reviews to various newspapers and to magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and the Nation.
To purchase tickets, call (415) 581-3500 or visit online.
Cost:
First Sunday of the month is free; $5 Admission to special Shanghai exhibit.
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