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.
Inside/Outside: The Great Wall of China
David Spindler and Peter Hessler will explore the fascinating history—cultural, political, and military—of the Great Wall.
Where
Mahjong: Public Conversation Series
Conversations on Contemporary China: David Spindler and Peter Hessler
The Great Wall is arguably China’s most powerful and resonant icon—one referred to in a number of artworks in Mahjong. The finale of the museum’s public conversation series will explore the fascinating history—cultural, political, and military—of this incomparable phenomenon.
David Spindler, a Beijing-based independent historian, began his study of the Great Wall in 1994 while doing graduate work in history at Beijing University; for the last six years he has devoted himself full time to the topic. Spindler and the fascinating findings of his research were the subject of a major profile by Peter Hessler in The New Yorker in 2007. Hessler, a staff writer for The New Yorker, was until recently the magazine’s Beijing correspondent. His critically acclaimed books on China include River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze and Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present. The forthcoming Country Driving uses the automobile as a way to explore the larger economic changes in China; a major part of the book takes place in a village close to the Great Wall.
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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 Mike 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.