On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
Foodways in China: New Scholarly Trajectories
The international conference ‘Foodways in China' will provide a venue to discuss research that has augmented the largely anthropological and historical contributions of those earlier works, and new work by scholars based in the Humanities and Social Sciences that engages insights from the emerging interdisciplinary field of Food Studies.
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Scholarship on Chinese foodways has grown at a steady rate over the last few decades, following the publication of two landmark works that outlined the importance of food in Chinese political, cultural, and social organization.
The international conference ‘Foodways in China’ will provide a venue to discuss research that has augmented the largely anthropological and historical contributions of those earlier works, and new work by scholars based in the Humanities and Social Sciences that engages insights from the emerging interdisciplinary field of Food Studies.
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