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.
Local Gazetteers in Ming Dynasty Borderlands
Fall 2008 CCS Noon Lecture Series
Joseph Dennis will explore the compilation, publication, and circulation of local gazetteers in Ming dynasty borderlands.
When:
October 7, 2008 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Where
Joseph Dennis, Assistant Professor of History, Davidson College, North Carolina
This lecture will explore the compilation, publication, and circulation of local gazetteers in Ming dynasty borderlands. The focus will be on gazetteers compiled by native officials in native domains (tusi??), and the role of local gazetteers in building literary culture along the southwestern border. Professor Dennis' research is on Chinese social, legal, and cultural history. He is currently writing a book, "Writing, Publishing and Reading Local Histories in China, 1100-1644." His courses include surveys of East Asian History, upper division courses on imperial and modern China, and seminars on Chinese legal history and the history of the book.
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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.