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.
Screening: Blue Sky Bones
University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies hosts a screening of Blue Sky Bones, a story about history, family, music, and politics.
Where
A film by Cui Jian; China, 2013; 101 minutes (Mandarin with English subtitles)
Cui Jian, one of China’s first rock stars, makes his feature debut with a story about history, family, music and politics.
“The hero of the tale is Zhong Hua (played by Yin Fang), an underground rocker who makes a living creating computer viruses and then selling anti-viruses to neutralize them. When an impresario asks him to launch the career of his girlfriend Meng Meng (Huang Huan), Zhong Hua reluctantly agrees to do a live web show, illegally hooking into a satellite dish for the needed bandwidth. It’s a criminal infraction of the law that echoes the crime his mother Shi Yanping (TV actress and model Ni Hongjie) committed in the seventies, leading to her exile in the country during the Cultural Revolution.
The song 'Lost Season', sung in various ways and rearranged as 'Blue Sky Bones' later in the film, is a clear reference to the "lost ten years" of the Cultural Revolution. Written by Cui Jian (who, it should be noted, opened for the Rolling Stones and Deep Purple in their Beijing concerts), it makes poignant contact with the writer-director's own troubles with the authorities, who have often banned his music in China.” Review by Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter.
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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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Events
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.