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.
Chinese Business and Economic History
USC and UCLA hold a joint conference on Chinese business and Economics.
Where
Panel/discussion 1 - China and Asian Trade Networks
1:00-1:20pm: Richard Von Glahn, Professor of History, UCLA, "The Ningbo-Hakata Merchant Network and the Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1300"
1:20-1:30pm: Discussant Michelle Damian, Ph.D. student, Department of History, USC
1:30-1:50pm: David Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business and Director of the Korean Studies Institute, USC, "The Political Economy of the Tribute System, 1368-1841"
1:50-2:00pm: Discussant Guillermo Ruiz Stovel, Ph.D. student, Department of History, UCLA 2:00-2:30pm: Group Discussion 1
2:30-3:00pm: Break
Panel/discussion 2 - Chinese Business Organization
3:00-3:20pm: Robert Chao Romero, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA, “The Chinese Transnational Commercial Orbit and its Relevance to Latin American History, Asian American Studies, and Latino Studies”
3:20-3:30pm: Discussant Luman Wang, Ph.D. student, Department of History, USC
3:30-3:50pm: Brett Sheehan, Associate Professor of History, USC, “Is there a Chinese Way of Doing Business? Evidence from the Song Family of Capitalists, 1900-1950”
3:50-4:00pm: Discussant Hsin-pei Liu, Ph.D. student, Department of History, UCLA
4:00-4:30pm: Group Discussion 2
4:30-5:00pm: Closing Remarks
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Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Events
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
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.