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.
Third Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley hosts a conference with guest speaker Xiaobing Tang.
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Keynote Speaker: Xiaobing Tang
The conference will bring together keynote speaker Xiaobing Tang and twelve graduate students to present innovative research on modern Chinese cultural production, from early modern to contemporary, in various humanistic disciplines. This year's presenters take different approaches from economic history to art history, narrative analysis to religious studies and quantitative method.
Presentations take place over the course of two days, beginning 12pm on Friday, April 13, and are open to the public. The keynote speech this year is titled: "On the Legacy of Socialist Visual Experience," and will take place at 4pm on Friday. Panel topics include " Circulating Myth and
Meaning: Mediation of Socialist and Post-Socialist Culture," "Planning Art and the Art of Planning: Private Tastes and Public Desires in Republican China," "Looking at Language: Exploring Changing Forms of Discourse," and "Narrative Crossings: Recontextualizing Chinese-ness Across Boundaries."
Evelyn Shih, conference student chair
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