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.
2012 Annual Conference of the Chinese Military History Society
Presented by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at The George Washington University.
Where
8:45AM-10:15AM Session I
Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University, "War in the Discources on Salt and Iron"
Jonathan Skaff, Shippensburg University, "The Geo-Strategic Significance of Inner Mongolia: A Case Study of the Sui-Tang and Turk Empires"
George L. Israel, Macon State College, "Ming Court and Country during the Ning Princely Rebellion"
10:30AM-12:00PM Session II
David Silbey, Cornell University, "Military Choices Made by the Empress Dowager Cixi during the Boxer Uprising"
Edward A. McCord, George Washington University, "Predatory Warlordism: Wang Zhanyuan in Hubei"
Yan Xu, Ohio State University, "War Heroes: The Making of Soldiers' Masculinities in Modern China, 1925-1945"
12:00PM-1:45PM Lunch
1:45PM-3:00PM Session III
Harold M. Tanner, University of North Texas, "Learning Through Practice: Chinese Communist Forces in the Three Expeditions /Four Defenses Campaign, Winter 1946-47"
Edward F. Chen, Flushing, NY, "Broken Fist': The Decline and Recovery of the Nationalist Armor Force during the Chinese Civil War, 1945-50"
3:15PM-4:30PM Session IV
Benjamin Knight, UC Berkeley, "People's Army versus People's Party: Comparing Domestic Military Influence in Postwar China and North Korea"
Xiaoming Zhang, U.S Air War College, "A Reassessment of the 1979 War"
Please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/ChinaMilitaryMay10 by Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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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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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.