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.
China's Social Policy: New Agenda in the Era of Urbanization
Dr. Xinping Guan reviews China's social policy reform and development
March 2, 2006
On March 2, 2006 at the USC School of Social Work, Dr. Xinping Guan, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Work & Social Policy Nankai University People's Republic of China, gave a presentation that reviewed China's social policy reform and development over the past two decades. While the country has responded to domestic economic reform and globalization since the 1980s, China's policy now is based on the accelerating socio-economic changes of urbanization since the late 1990s. His review, China's Social Policy: New Agenda in the Era of Urbanization, is available in a video format, and Dr. Guan's Powerpoint slides are also available.
Dr. Guan is also the vice chair of the China Association of Social Work Education, a member of the Expert Consulting Committee, China Ministry of Civil Affairs and was a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Urban Poverty in China, Introduction to Social Policy, and many papers on social policy and sociology.
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
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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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
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Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
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.