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Mapping the Future of Entertainment
Dean Ernest J. Wilson III moderated "Mapping the Future of Entertainment," featuring a keynote from Chen Xiao, Vice President of iQIYI.
USC President Honors Trustee Ming Hsieh as Shanghai Conference Comes to a Close
The university’s biennial leadership event focused on ‘Innovations for a Rapidly Changing World’
Beyond "How" and "What" is "Where," and Disney's Bob Iger is looking to China
The company’s chairman and CEO is interviewed by Willow Bay during the 2015 USC Global Conference in Shanghai
In Memoriam: Gene Cooper, 1947-2015
Eugene Cooper was an accomplished China specialist and longtime USC professor of anthropology. He passed away this weekend.
Video: Panel discussion on the influence of Chinese photographer Wang Wenlan's work
Watch videos of Judy Polumbaum, Kristopher Li, and Steve Stroud discussing the works of Wang Wenlan, who was the first photojournalist for the national English-language newspaper China Daily and has documented Chinese life and culture over the past 40 years.
Q&A with Fu Hongxing, Director of "Mr. Deng Goes to Washington"
Watch the Q&A session with director Fu Hongxing following the screening of his new documentary that delves into the lesser known details of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s historic trip to the United States in 1979.
Brett Sheehan discusses his book "Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision"
Brett Sheehan discusses his new book, which studies the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicling the fortunes of the Song family of North China under five successive authoritarian governments.
Assignment: China - Contradictions
This segment of the Assignment:China series explores the nature of the China story during the wake of the 2008 Olympics, as correspondents clashed with an increasingly assertive Chinese government determined that it- not the foreign media- would shape the international narrative about China.
Assignment: China - Tremors
In 2008, in honor of hosting the Olympic Games, Beijing pledged to allow a freer atmosphere for the international press, lifting many long-standing restrictions on the movements and activities of foreign correspondents. However, the year also saw several other traumatic events that reshaped the narrative of the China story, thereby reshaping the experience of the foreign press as well. "Tremors" is an account of what it was like to cover the remarkable year of 2008.
Assignment: China - The New Millennium
This segment of the Assignment:China series focuses the early years of the new millennium, when China experienced a new kind of social liberalization and the American press corps enjoyed a period of the easing of the worst of the restrictions imposed during the post-Tiananmen crackdown of the 1990s, enabling reporters to dig into Chinese society in ways that had previously been difficult, if not impossible.