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.
Film Screening - Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons is a 2013 fantasy-comedy film directed by Stephen Chow and Derek Kwok(co-director).
When:
August 15, 2014 7:00pm to 12:00am
Comedy masters Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle) and Derek Kwok (Gallants) teamed up to direct this irreverent comic adventure. Inspired by a Chinese literary classic, Journey to the West features elaborately choreographed physical comedy, Chow’s trademark nonsense wordplay, and parodies of everything from Peking Opera to Shaw Brothers kung fu movies. It tells the tale of Xuan Zang (Wen Zhang), a naïve monk who tries, and mostly fails, to defeat demons through nonviolent means, much to the amusement of his rival, the rambunctious and beautiful Duan (Shu Qi).
This “thoroughly entertaining action comedy” (Edmund Lee, Screen International) broke box office records in China. Chow also stars in A Chinese Odyssey 1 and 2, which are also inspired by Journey to the West and screen on August 17. (Dir.: Stephen Chow and Derek Kwok, China/Hong Kong, 2013, 110 min., D-Cinema, Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles)
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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.