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.
Book Reviews
Lococo, Genghis Khan: History's Greatest Empire Builder, 2008
Timothy May reviews the book for H-War.
Wassertrom, Grandin, Hunt, and Young, eds., Human Rights and Revolutions, 2007
Christian W. Erickson reviews the book for H-Human-Rights, February 2008.
Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower, 2007
James F. Paradise reviews the book for AsiaMedia, May 2007.
Isett, State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862, 2007
Peer Vries reviews Christopher Isett's State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862.
Spoor, Heerink, and Qu, Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam, 2007.
Reviewed for H-Environment by Micah Muscolino, Department of History, Saint Mary's College of California
Mann, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, 2007
The former Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and author of a new book on China is not the lone voice in the wilderness, writes Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Gallicchio, The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations, 2007
Akiko Takenaka reviews the book for H-Japan.
Grypma, Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947 (2007)
Adrienne Byng reviews the book for H-Canada, April 2009.
Mller, Representing History in Chinese Media: The TV Drama "Zou Xiang Gonghe" (Towards the Republic), 2007.
Thoralf Klein reviews the book for H-Net, November 2008.
Gao, Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, A Biography, 2007
Yafeng Xia reviews this book for H-Diplo, January 2007, credit H-Asia
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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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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.