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.
Factory Town: Life in a Chinese Development Zone
The Pacific Basin Institute presents a talk by Peter Hessler on his research in Lishui, a factory town in southern Zhejiang province.
When:
February 16, 2010 4:15pm to 12:00am
Where
Peter Hessler, writer, journalist & award-winning author of the book
Peter Hessler will talk about his research in Lishui, a factory town in southern Zhejiang province. For more than two years, Hessler followed development in Lishui, spending time with factory owners, small entrepreneurs, migrant workers, and government officials. Like so many places in southern China, Lishui is focused on growing its export economy, and Hessler will describe the human side of this process.
Cost:
Free
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