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.
Reviews - Pre-1949 China
Clements, Wellington Koo: China (Makers of the Modern World), 2008.
Yongjin Zhang reviews the book for H-Diplo.
Welter, The Linji lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy: The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature, 2008
Albert Welter's book was reviewed by Stuart Young.
Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, 2008
Dietmar Rothermund reviews the book for H-Soz-u-Kult, September 2008.
Lococo, Genghis Khan: History's Greatest Empire Builder, 2008
Timothy May reviews the book for H-War.
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.
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.
Wakabayashi, ed. The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-38- Complicating the Picture, 2007
This edited volume was reviewed by Sven Saaler for H-Genocide in September 2009. It is reprinted here under Creative Commons license.
James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, 2007.
Morgan Liu reviews the book for H-Asia, October 2008. Republished here under Creative Commons license.
Martin and Heinrich, Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures. Chinese Cultural Studies and Anthropology Series, 2006
Pamela McCallum reviews the book for H-Ideas, April 2007, credit H-Net.
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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 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.