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.
Perfect Life
Emily Tang's second feature tells the bleak stories of female migrant workers in China.
Where
Emily TANG (TANG Xiaobai). China/Hong Kong. 97 min. 2008. Narrative/Documentary. Digibeta.
Part of the "China's Past, Present, Future on Film" series
Emily Tang's second feature tells the bleak stories of female migrant workers in China. Two women, one fictional and one real, struggle for a new life in southern China. Their lives converge in Shenzhen (bordering Hong Kong), a city of dreams and survival for millions of migrant workers. Intricately blending documentary and fiction, Tang takes realism to a new level. Co-produced by Jia Zhangke.
Vancouver International Film Festival - Dragons and Tigers Award
"[A]n intimate and complex picture of the female condition in China, Perfect Life reasserts Tang as an original, insightful, and highly talented director." – Bérénice Reynaud, CalArts REDCAT
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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.