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.
2008 California NCTA: Summer Study Tour to China and Japan
Led by Clayton Dube of the USC U.S.-China Institute, participants of the 21-day tour will visit several of China and Japan's most interesting destinations.
When:
June 28, 2008 12:00am to July 18, 2008 12:00am
California teachers who have successfully completed an NCTA seminar coordinated by CSUF, Stanford, UCLA, or USC during 2001-2007 were eligible to apply.
STUDY TOUR ITINERARY
CHINA
Day 1 Sunday, June 29 – Beijing
Arrive in Beijing, go to hotel
Afternoon on your own
Novotel Peace Hotel
Day 2 Monday, June 30 – Beijing
Palace Museum
Tiananmen Square
Liulichang
Qianmen Archaize Street
Novotel Peace Hotel
Day 3 Tuesday, July 1 – Beijing
Great Wall
Yonghe Lamasery
Evening performance: Chinese acrobats
Novotel Peace Hotel
Day 4 Wednesday, July 2 – Beijing > Datong
Temple of Heaven
Bird’s Nest Stadium
Evening on your own in Wangfujing
Depart for Datong on night train
Yugang International Hotel
Day 5 Thursday, July 3 – Datong > Taiyuan
Yungang Grottoes
Xuankong (Hanging) Temple
Depart for Taiyuan
Lihua Grand Hotel
Day 6 Friday, July 4 – Taiyuan > Pingyao
Depart for Pingyao
Tour of Pingyao
Lihua Grand Hotel
Day 7 Saturday, July 5 – Taiyuan > Xi’an
Depart for Taiyuan, depart for Xi’an
Shaanxi Normal University High School visit
(Teaching assignment – TBA)
Wild Goose Pagoda
Evening on your own
Bell Tower Hotel
Day 8 Sunday, July 6 – Xi’an
Xi’an Jiaotong University kindergarten visit
Terracotta warriors
Lintong farm home
Tang dynasty performance
Bell Tower Dinner
Day 9 Monday, July 7 – Xi’an > Shanghai
Xi’an City Wall
Depart for Shanghai
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Ramada Hotel
Day 10 Tuesday, July 8 – Shanghai
Factory visit (TBA)
Nanxiang Ancient Town
Jiading Confucian Temple
Bund
Yu Garden (tentative)
Neighborhood Committee visit (tentative)
Children’s Palaces visit (tentative)
China Closure Session
Ramada Hotel
Wednesday, July 9 – Depart for Osaka, Japan
JAPAN
Day 1 Wednesday, July 9 – Shanghai > Osaka
Arrive in Osaka, go to hotel
Miyako Hotel Osaka
Day 2 Thursday, July 10 – Osaka > Hiroshima > Osaka
Depart for Hiroshima
Itsukushima Shrine
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Evening on your own
Miyako Hotel Osaka
Day 3 Friday, July 11 – Osaka
Nintoku's Tomb
Henomatsu Museum
Osaka Castle
Floating Garden (tentative)
Miyako Hotel Osaka
Day 4 Saturday, July 12 – Osaka > Kyoto > Nara > Kyoto
Depart for Kyoto
Todaiji Temple and Nara Park
Kasuga Grand Shrine
New Miyako Hotel
Day 5 Sunday, July 13 – Kyoto
Golden Pavilion
Kinkakuji Nijo Castle
Kyoto Handicraft Center (tentative)
Heian Shrine
Kiyomizu Temple (tentative)
New Miyako Hotel
Day 6 Monday, July 14 – Kyoto
Imperial Palace
Ritsumeikan Junior High School visit
Kodai Yuzen-En (tentative)
Kyoto City Lifelong Learning Promotion Foundation (tentative)
New Miyako Hotel
Day 7 Tuesday, July 15 – Kyoto > Nagoya > Tokyo
Depart for Nagoya
Toyota Factory and Museum
Nagoya Marine Museum (tentative)
Depart for Tokyo
New Takanawa Prince Hotel
Day 8 Wednesday, July 16 – Tokyo
Asakusa
Sushi making
Shibuya
Yasukuni Shrine
Akihabara
New Takanawa Prince Hotel
Day 9 Thursday, July 17 – Tokyo
Meiji Shrine
Harajuku
Ginza
New Takanawa Prince Hotel
Friday, July 18 – Departure
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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.