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.
Shredding for the Motherland: The Guitar in China
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley presents a talk with James Millward on the guitar's place in Chinese society.
When:
December 9, 2011 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where
James Millward, History, Georgetown University
Andrew F. Jones, CCS chair (on leave this year); Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
The guitar is, arguably, the most popular musical instrument today, in China as elsewhere in the world. China now produces most of the world's guitars. Yet guitar-playing, in either popular or art music genres, came to China only within the past few decades. In the early 20th century it appeared in jazz clubs or as props for Modern Girl pin-ups, but for reasons relating to its Western, romantic and bohemian associations the guitar remained little known beyond Shanghai and Guangzhou, was banned during the Cultural Revolution, even while it flourished in the Soviet Union through similar political epochs. In the late 20th century the guitar reemerged in China and its iconography has largely realigned with global meanings, yet it remains a transculturated object, its complicated semiotics reflecting China's evolving self-image and place in the world.
Cost:
Free
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