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.
Digital Approaches to Late Imperial Chinese Literature: Exploring Quasi-historical Texts
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Digital Approaches to Late Imperial Chinese Literature: Exploring Quasi-historical Texts" by Paul Vierthaler on Friday, September 19, 2014, 12:15pm to 1:30pm.
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The ever-increasing availability of digital information on pre-modern Chinese texts, from online bibliographic records to fully digitized transcripts, is allowing scholars to adapt mathematical and statistical tools for literary analysis. Paul Vierthaler will address the promise and some of the drawbacks of using digital techniques to analyze broad stylistic differences among late imperial Chinese texts. Stylometry, developed by linguists and widely used in author-attribution studies, shows promise for illustrating differences in style among various genres of late Imperial writing. This, in turn, provides insight into why traditional bibliographers often classified unofficial histories as novels.
Paul Vierthaler is a 2014-2015 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His dissertation is titled "Quasi-history and Public Knowledge: A Social History of Late-Ming and Early-Qing Unofficial Historical Narratives," and his PhD is from Yale University.
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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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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.