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.
Cao Baoping: Trouble Makers (Guangrongde Fennu)
Part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series - New Chinese Cinema: The Unofficial Stories of Tang Tang, Fourth Child, Little Moth and Others
Where
China, 2006
35mm, Mandarin w/ English s/t, 103 min.
West Coast Premiere
Four brothers—salt traffickers, rapists and profiteers—rule over a backwater village. Unable to fight this new “Gang of Four” through official channels, the local Party Secretary, Ye Guangrong, assembles a colorful posse of assorted riff-raff, thugs, coarse peasants and fed-up villagers. And then they fight dirty—joyfully pouring out the foulest, most vulgar and imaginative language heard in recent Chinese cinema.
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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.