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.
New course: China and the World
Professor Carolyn Cartier will offer East Asian Studies 160gm, a new interdisciplinary course in spring 2008.
December 1, 2007
* This course satisfies both the General Education Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions requirement and the Diversity requirement.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The rise of China in the world economy has become the outstanding geopolitical issue of the contemporary era. This general education course is an advanced-level introduction to China and its relations with the wider world in historic and contemporary perspective. The course begins with examination of the historical emergence of a Chinese world order in relation to European expansion through cross-cultural relations, international trade, labor migration and the origins of the Chinese diaspora. These themes continue as we shift toward studying the People’s Republic of China in the second half of the twentieth century to the present, with an emphasis on the reform period after 1978.
The conceptualization of the course emphasizes a contemporary geographical perspective that treats China not just as a geopolitical unit, i.e. a nation-state, but as a country of regions with vastly different conditions that hold significant implications for China’s economic growth, social stability, international relations and ultimate future in the world order. Specific topics to be covered include economic development, regional industrialization, urbanization and the new cities, Chinese nationalism, migration and emigration, contemporary culture, including gender relations, popular culture and the Internet, environmental impacts, and intensified demands for natural resources, especially the new global extraction economies. While U.S.- P.R.C. relations is a central theme of the course, we also examine relations between China and the other major world regions with coverage this year of China’s relations with East and Southeast Asia and Latin America, and with specific focus on China-Iran relations. Pedagogically, the course emphasizes in-class discussion, critical analysis of key concepts and written work.
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 - 4:50 p.m.
Taper Hall, Room 301
For more information, please contact Prof. Cartier at 213-740-0063, cartier@usc.edu
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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.