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.
Screening: Bodyguards and Assassins (CAFF 2011)
The 2011 Chinese American Film Festival presents a screening of Bodyguards and Assassins.
In 1905 Central Hong Kong, revolutionists were brutally murdered. When the Qing government heard Sun Yat-sen was about to visit Hong Kong, they sent General Yan Xiaoguo to assassin him. Yan paid out gambler Shen Chongyang as an informant. Chen Shaobai, president and editor-in-chief of “China Daily”, and his whole family was annihilated because of protecting Sun Yat-sen. The only survivor was his daughter Fang Hong. Struck by his son and friend’s revolutionary acts, local businessman Li Yutang took over the mission to keep Sun Yat-sen safe with Fang Hong, local vendor Wang Fuming and a beggar named Liu Yubai as bodyguards. A man hunt over the city began…
For a complete listing of Chinese films to be featured at the 2011 Chinese American Film Festival, please click here.
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Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
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.