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.
Sensing Taiwan: From Auteur to Popular Art: The Commercial Viability of Taiwan Cinema
As part of their "Sensing Taiwan" series, Indiana University's East Asian Studies Center presents a talk by Dr. Cindy Chan of the University of Texas at Austin. This talk will explore the future of Taiwan cinema as an artisanal mode of production that depends heavily on human factors.
When:
October 1, 2015 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Where
This talk will explore the future of Taiwan cinema as an artisanal mode of production that depends heavily on human factors. It is this professionalism that helps Taiwan cinema expand its productions from art cinema to mass entertainment. Each group of filmmakers has its own market niche. The talk will use these exceptional professionals as an entry point to understand how the Taiwan film industry works and to assess future paths.
Cindy Chan got her PhD from the Radio-TV-Film department of theUniversity of Texas at Austin. She was assistant professor at the Filmmaking Department of the Taipei National University of the Art. Her M.A. is from the Radio-TV-Film Department of Northwestern University. Cindy has had extensive experience in the media industry; she worked as an executive for international organizations that included STAR TV, Time Life Asia, Hong Kong International Film Festival, and Hong Kong Film Archive.
Cost:
Free and Open to the Public
Phone Number:
(812) 855-3765 or (800) 441-3272
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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.