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Video: Deborah Brautigam on China and Africa
Deborah Bräutigam, one of the world’s leading experts on China and Africa, explores China’s evolving global quest for food security and Africa’s possibilities for structural transformation.
China’s Growing Pains conference videos
Watch video presentations of experts and scholars examining where China is, where it might be heading, and why it matters for the Chinese, the United States, and the world.
USC Marching Band to perform in Macao for Chinese New Year Parade
The Trojans will be the first American performers in the event’s history.
Video: Andrew Scobell and Tai Ming Cheung examine the remaking of the PLA by Xi Jinping
The USC U.S.-China Institute hosts a discussion to look at how China's national security policy is shaped under Xi Jinping.
Timothy Heath discusses his book "China's New Governing Party Paradigm"
Timothy Heath, Senior International Defense Research Analyst of The RAND Corporation, discusses the historic context, drivers, and meaning of the governing party paradigm in China.
Videos from the US-China Relations Symposium in Shanghai
Watch presentations from the symposium the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted in Shanghai in October 2015. After market shocks, the Xi visit, and the 5th plenum of the CCP and ahead of elections in Taiwan and the U.S., the speakers examined U.S.-China relations and cross-strait ties.
In Memoriam: Gene Cooper, 1947-2015
Eugene Cooper was an accomplished China specialist and longtime USC professor of anthropology. He passed away this weekend.
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.