Past Events
This talk addresses the Chinese phenomenon of guan xinbing “officials’ heartache,” with particular emphasis on the media’s representations of “officials’ suicides” since 2009.
The USC U.S.-China Institute presents a screening of Behind Bayonets and Barbed Wire (铁血残阳), the story of American prisoners of war, held by the Japanese in a camp in Shenyang, China, during WWII. The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Richard Anderson.
Dr. Yanzhong Huang and Dr. Desmond Thio will discuss the intersections between health, climate change, environment, and economic interests. As China grapples with these challenges, what are the implications for the United States and the rest of the world?
Based on 8 months of fieldwork in Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone in China, this talk will describe female sex workers’ mental health challenges in the context of stigma, economic development, and gender. The logistical, methodological, and ethical issues that arise when doing global fieldwork will also be discussed.
Please join the Kissinger Institute for a discussion with writer and former Washington Post correspondent John Pomfret on his new book, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present.
The Stanford Center for East Asian Studies will host the event, The U.S. and China in the Era of Donald Trump.
Undoubtedly, a rapprochement between Washington and Moscow that mitigates or even eradicates the sense of a “New Cold War” would impact on the other key lattices of the classic strategic triangle: both Russia-China relations as well as the all-important US-China relationship. This talk will draw on unique Chinese and Russian source material to evaluate the prospects for such a major tectonic geopolitical shift.
Columbia Law School will host Orville Schell to discuss US-China policy recommendations for the new administration.
The Skirball Cultural Center will present the film A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
The Ringling presents the exhibit, "Asia Under the Big Top", exploring how stereotypes and fantasies of Asia played to American audiences under the big top through lithographs printed to advertise American circuses from the last quarter of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th century. (October 14, 2016 - February 13, 2017)