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.
Silk Road and Infrastructure: China’s Belt and Road Initiative Narratives
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk with Professor Carolijn van Noort from the University of West Scotland. Her new book explores how China’s international political communication of the Belt and Road Initiative comprises narratives about infrastructure and the Silk Road.
When:
September 23, 2021 1:00pm to 2:30pm
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Right image: Photo provided by Sinotrans Ltd. shows a freight train departing from Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, which is bound for Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, on May 25, 2021. (Xinhua)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a huge multi-continent undertaking and the subject of much attention in and outside of China. In her just released book, China’s Communication of the Belt and Road Initiative: Silk Road and Infrastructure Narratives, Carolijn van Noort examines China’s international political communication about the project. Professor van Noort argues that China’s aesthetic production of the Belt and Road Initiative advances China’s image as an infrastructure and standards-setting power. She writes that China works to create a narrative highlighting historical continuation of friendly and cooperative relations and China’s identity as good neighbor, good friend, and good partner. The book explores China’s selective uses of history in its presentation of the initiative and its specific communication efforts via its Belt and Road Forum and regarding specific projects in Kyrgyzstan, Kenya and the Maldives.
Carolijn van Noort teaches politics and public policy at the University of West Scotland. Her research focuses on the international political communication of rising powers. Her first book, Infrastructure Communication in International Relations, examined how rising powers communicate about infrastructure internationally. She’s published book chapters and articles in journals such as Global Society, Politics and Governance, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
The event will be moderated by Clay Dube, the Director of the USC U.S.-China Institute and Ben Lee, the Associate Director of the USC Annenberg School's Master of Communication Management program.
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