On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
The United States and China: Still a "Fragile Relationship"?
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies presents its 13th Annual Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture featuring Harry Harding on US-China relations.
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Harry Harding, former Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs from 1995-2005, is currently University Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. From 2005 to 2007, he served as Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group, a political risk advisory and consulting firm headquartered in New York. He remains a Counselor to Eurasia Group, as well as a Visiting Fellow in the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. Dr. Harding has served on the faculties of Swarthmore College (1970-71) and Stanford University (1971-83); was a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94). In July of 2009, he will be leaving GW to become Founding Dean of the Batten School of Public Policy at the University of Virginia. A specialist on Asia, his major publications include The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (co-edited with Francine Frankel, 2004); A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992); Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Debate (co-edited with Yuan Ming, 1989); China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (1987); China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (editor, 1984); and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (1981).
Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and email to gsigur@gwu.edu by Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
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