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.
Meet the Author: James Mann, The China Fantasy
In The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, author James Mann examines the evolution of American policy toward China and asks, "What are our ideas and hidden assumptions about China?"
When:
January 31, 2008 5:30pm to 8:00pm
In this follow-up to his best-selling book The Rise of the Vulcans, Mann explores two scenarios popular among the policy elite. First, the "Soothing Scenario" contends that the spread of capitalism will gradually bring about a development of democratic institutions, free elections, an independent judiciary, and a progressive human rights policy.
Second, in the "Upheaval Scenario," the contradictions in Chinese society between rich and poor, cities and the countryside, and between economic openness and political rigidity will eventually lead to revolution, chaos, or collapse.
Against this backdrop, Mann offers a third scenario: What will happen if Chinese capitalism continues to evolve and expand but the government fails to liberalize? What would it mean for the U.S. and the world if, two or three decades from now, a much richer and more powerful China remains every bit as authoritarian a state as it is today?
James Mann is Author in Residence at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at
for the Los Angeles Times.
Cost:
$7 Asia Society Members. $15 Non-Members
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