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.
Rural China: from Late Imperial to Contemporary
Distinguished scholars examine rural China.
When:
March 8, 2008 12:00am
Where
Qing Rural Social and Economic History: The State of the Field (9:00 – 10:45)
A roundtable with Li Bozhong (Tsinghua University, currently visiting at CalTech), Kenneth Pomeranz (UCI), and R. Bin Wong (UCLA)
Discussant: Philip Hoffman (CalTech)
Coffee Break 10:45 -11:00
The Republican Era (11:00- 1:00)
Pierre Fuller (UCI): “Humiliating Hunger: North China Famine
1920-1921 & the Modern Claim on Humanitarianism”
Discussant: Robert Marks (Whittier College)
Kate Merkel-Hess (UCI): “Lettering Society: Literacy Education and the Rural Modern in the Republican Rural Reconstruction Movement”
Discussant: Georgia Mickie (Cal Poly Pomona)
Lunch Break: 1:00- 2:30
Post 1949 (2:30 – 5:00)
Jonathan Jackson (UCLA): “The Intersection of Socialist Merit and Agnatic Descent: Death Ritual, Funeral Reform and the Rural/Urban Ritual Divide in Shaanxi Province”
Su Yang (UCI): “Landless Lords, Poor Rich-Peasants: The Creation and Maintenance of Class Enemies in Rural China under Mao”
Nicholas Menzies (UCLA): “Development by Campaign: A History of the Transformation of the Xishuangbanna Landscape”
Discussants: Thomas Bernstein (Columbia) -- Su Yang and Nicholas Menzies); Eugene Cooper,(USC) -- Jonathan Jackson
For further information, please contact Ken Pomeranz: 949-824-5169, klpomera@uci.edu
Cost:
Free
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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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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
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.