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.
Screening: The Seal of Love (CAFF 2011)
The 2011 Chinese American Film Festival presents a screening of The Seal of Love.
At the beginning of 1924, Yang Zhihua, a progressive youth, was admitted by Shanghai University, where Qu Qiubai, one of the earliet leaders of the Communist Party of China worked as a professor In the Sociology Department. Yang assumed the important work of students’ union during students’ patriotic movements and the love between her and Qu got matured in combats. The foreign concession authority ransacked Shanghai University and posted Qu as wanted. The Communist Party of China decided to transfer Qu underground and appointed Yang as his one-way contact. In 1935, Qu Qiubai was arrested. Qu refused all sorts of induction to capitulation, and died a heroic death singing the Internationale.
For a complete listing of Chinese films to be featured at the 2011 Chinese American Film Festival, please click here.
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