On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
Qingxiang: The Transnational Repercussions of Village Pacification in China, 1869-1891
Professor Melissa MacCauley will speak on village pacification in China at the University of Chicago.
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Melissa Macauley (Ph.D. Berkeley, 1993) specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese history. Her research interests include social history and legal culture; the port culture of the South China Seas region; the problem of transnational crime in the context of migration and trade; and the transformation of non-Western law in the age of colonialism and imperialism. Her first book, Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China (1998) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999. Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright-Hays), among others. She has also served as the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Harvard University; a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ); and a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Qing History at Renmin (People's) University (Beijing). She is currently working on a book titled Crime and Migration in the South China Seas, 1854-1937. She was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999 and named a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in 2004.
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