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USC Annenberg’s resident Olympics expert has a front-row seat at his 12th Games
Olympics expert Alan Abrahamson, seen here at last year’s Tokyo Games, covered his first Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
How China’s ‘leftover women’ are using their financial power to fight the stigma of being single
Originally published by USC Annenberg on November 15, 2021.
Happy Year of the Ox! 祝您牛年快乐!
It's Lunar New Year Eve, a time to get together with family and call on friends and neighbors. U.S.
What's At Stake In Xinjiang
A symposium featuring a distinguished panel of specialists to discuss Uyghur beliefs and Chinese government policies in the region.
Global Exchange Virtual Workshop
For Summer 2020, the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Communication University of China in Beijing are offering a unique collaborative Global Exchange Virtual* Workshop on ZOOM and other platforms. Each USC student will collaborate with a CUC student to create a short documentary film about concurrent lives and developments in both nations.
Video: Teng Biao on human rights in China
Legal scholar and well-known human rights activist Teng Biao gave a talk at USC on the state of human rights in China.
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
Jeffrey Wasserstrom draws on his many visits to Hong Kong and knowledge of the history of repression and resistance to help readers understand the deep roots and the broad significance of the events unfolding day by day in the city.
Video: Jeff Wasserstrom on the history of protests in Hong Kong
In this illustrated presentation, Prof. Wasserstrom puts events since the 1997 Handover and particularly since the 2014 Umbrella Movement into comparative and historical perspective.
Video: Q&A with Americaville Director Adam James Smith
In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.