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Video: Julia Strauss Compares Post-1949 China And Taiwan
Julia Strauss discusses on the period 1949 to 1954 and compares how the Communist Party in China and the Nationalist Party in Taiwan sought to consolidate their authority and foster economic development.
What's At Stake In Xinjiang
A symposium featuring a distinguished panel of specialists to discuss Uyghur beliefs and Chinese government policies in the region.
Family of USC freshman donates 100,000 face masks to Keck Medicine of USC
Xiang-Rong Wang donated 100,000 isolation masks to USC health care workers. He was motivated to give to Keck Medicine because his daughter, Sofie Wang, is a freshman at USC.
Global Exchange Virtual Workshop
For Summer 2020, the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Communication University of China in Beijing are offering a unique collaborative Global Exchange Virtual* Workshop on ZOOM and other platforms. Each USC student will collaborate with a CUC student to create a short documentary film about concurrent lives and developments in both nations.
Video: Cara Wallis on social media in contemporary China
Prof. Cara Wallis of Texas A&M University delivered the annual Walt Fisher Lecture at the USC Annenberg School of Communication.
Video: Teng Biao on human rights in China
Legal scholar and well-known human rights activist Teng Biao gave a talk at USC on the state of human rights in China.
Chinese are more impressed by Japan's response to the coronavirus than America's
A survey of Chinese netizen reaction to the responses of the Japanese and U.S. governments to the coronavirus outbreak.
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
Jeffrey Wasserstrom draws on his many visits to Hong Kong and knowledge of the history of repression and resistance to help readers understand the deep roots and the broad significance of the events unfolding day by day in the city.
Video: Jeff Wasserstrom on the history of protests in Hong Kong
In this illustrated presentation, Prof. Wasserstrom puts events since the 1997 Handover and particularly since the 2014 Umbrella Movement into comparative and historical perspective.
Video: Q&A with Americaville Director Adam James Smith
In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.