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.
Author Conversation: Belle Yang: Forget Sorrow
Part of the Citi Series on Asia in America
When:
May 10, 2010 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Part of the Citi Series on Asia in America
This is the New York Launch of a remarkable debut graphic memoir by author Belle Yang (Hannah is My Name, The Odyssey of a Manchurian, and Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders). The author started drawing her memoir during a fearful time in her life when she was forced to hide out in her parents' home to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend turned stalker. During this time she discovered her Chinese parents' and grandparents' lives, a story of bitter struggle and loss but also one she and her family had come to recognize as Xuan to, "Forget sorrow," which is Belle Yang's Chinese name.
Book sale and signing to follow. Books available at www.AsiaStore.org.
"Belle Yang is an American writer who writes in English and thinks in Chinese. Her writing feels Chinese. . . . It is as though we, the readers of English, can now miraculously read Chinese." —Amy Tan
Cost:
$10 Asia Society and AAWW members; $12 students with ID/seniors; $15 nonmembers
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