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.
Bearing Witness through Storytelling: An Evening with Chinese Writer Liao Yiwu
A special evening with Liao Yiwu will include a performance with the xiao, or Chinese flute, a reading of his works, and a discussion with the public.
When:
September 28, 2011 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Where
Liao Yiwu, poet, novelist, musician and documentarian, is one of the most outspoken writers in China today. Dubbed as the “Studs Terkel of China,” Liao is the author of The Corpse Walker, Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up, a stunning series of portraits of individuals ignored in history books and unacknowledged in the accounts of the new China. His latest book, God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China, is a collection of seventeen stories based on interviews that the author conducted between 2002 and 2010.
Wen Huang, journalist, author, and translator of Liao’s works, will also be at the event.
Cost:
Free
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