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.
Tsai Ming-liang: The Wayward Cloud (Tian Bian Yi Duo Yun)
Part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series-
New Chinese Cinema: The Unofficial Stories of Tang Tang, Fourth Child, Little Moth and Others
Where
Taiwan, 2005, 112 min., 35mm
Los Angeles premiere
"In drought-stricken Taipei, the feverish, sensual and emotional journey of a two-bit porn actor (Lee Kang-sheng, Tsai’s muse) and a young woman (Chen Shiang-chyi) toward an unexpected amour fou unfolds against a droll and surreal background. This is ”the most audacious film to date from visionary director Tsai Ming-liang… As in The Hole (1998), he adds campy musical numbers into the narrative that play against the raw sex scenes, creating a bizarre, existential chaos… His stationary camera perfectly illustrates the isolation and exploitation the characters are trapped in. They are indeed wayward clouds, drifting through life without purpose, in a world without water. And prepare yourself for the film's unbelievable final scene, which manages to be both weirdly erotic and profoundly disturbing.” (San Francisco International Film Festival).
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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.