USC East Asian Studies Center Taiwanese Documentary Series

The East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California will host a Taiwanese documentary series.

USC Screening and Q&A at Ray Stark Theatre (SCA 108): Thursday, April 16, 2015

USC Pacific Asia Museum Screening and Panel: Saturday, April 18, 2015

Media Coverage:

CNA.tw
China Times News
NTDTV.com
Epoch Times
World Journal
Market Daily: Commercial Times

Video from Taiwanese Documentary Series Q&A with Director HUANG Chia-chun.
Video from Introduction of Director Huang by Professor Stanley Rosen

The EASC Taiwanese Documentary Film Series is made possible by the Spotlight Taiwan grant from the Taiwan Academy of the Ministry of Culture, Republic of China, with additional support provided by Special Patron Dr. Samuel Yin and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
 

About the Moderator

Stanley Rosen is Professor of Political Science at USC specializing in Chinese politics and society. He is also the Faculty Master of University Residential College at Birnkrant, which is an honors college for USC’s best incoming students. Rosen has been living on campus for 26 years as a resident faculty member. He studied Chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has traveled to mainland China over 50 times in the last 34 years. His courses range from Chinese politics and Chinese film to political change in Asia, East Asian societies, comparative politics, and politics and film in comparative perspective. The author or editor of eight books and many articles, he has written on such topics as the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese legal system, public opinion, youth, gender, human rights, Sino-American relations, and film and the media. He is the co-editor of Chinese Education and Society and a frequent guest editor of other translation journals. His most recent books include Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market [2010] (co-edited with Peter Hays Gries) and Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema [2010] (co-edited with Ying Zhu).

Ongoing projects include a study of the changing attitudes and behavior of Chinese youth, and a study of Hollywood films in China and the prospects for Chinese films on the international market, particularly in the United States. In addition to his academic activities at USC, Professor Rosen has escorted twelve delegations to China for the National Committee on US-China Relations (including American university presidents, professional associations, and Fulbright groups). He is an affiliated research scholar at Beijing Normal University’s Research Institute for Chinese Culture and International Communications and a member of the international advisory board of Shanghai University’s Center for Media Studies and the Humanities Studies Center of Zhongshan University (Taiwan). He has consulted for the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, the Los Angeles Public Defenders Office and a number of private corporations, law firms and U.S. government agencies.