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.
The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece
Simon Winchester gives a talk on the twentieth century English scientist—turned China scholar Joseph Needham.
When:
May 20, 2008 12:00am
Tuesday, May 20
6:30-8:30 PM
In the mid-20th century a somewhat eccentric young English scientist, turned China scholar set out to answer a puzzling question. Why was it that the nation that invented so much--the compass, bureaucracy, printing, explosives, even the stirrup--and had enjoyed 5,000 years of continuous civilization, had failed to prosper? Joseph Needham came to believe that China, weakened in the recent past by invasions, warlords, and corruption, would eventually rise again to world prominence. The first volume of his masterpiece, "Science and Civilization in China," came out in 1954; by the time he died he had produced, essentially single-handed, seventeen volumes on China, marking him as the greatest one-man encyclopaedist of all time.
New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa) talks his latest historical biography with John S. Major, Senior Lecturer, China Institute and associate of Joseph Needham. Followed by a book signing and reception.
Cost:
$10 Asia Society and China Institute members; $12 nonmembers; $10 students/seniors with ID
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
212 517-ASIA
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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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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.