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.
Exquisite Nature: 20 Masterpieces of Chinese Painting (14th - 18th C.)
Exquisite Nature presents masterpieces from some of China’s most influential painters of the 14th–18th centuries. These rarely seen paintings include variations on popular subjects such as landscape, birds-and-flowers, country life and historical stories. Though differing in style and geographical representation, each artwork offers a unique take on a shared theme: humankind’s celebration of the natural world.
When:
March 2, 2015 8:00am to November 1, 2015 8:00am
Where
Exquisite Nature presents masterpieces from some of China’s most influential painters of the 14th–18th centuries. These rarely seen paintings include variations on popular subjects such as landscape, birds-and-flowers, country life and historical stories. Though differing in style and geographical representation, each artwork offers a unique take on a shared theme: humankind’s celebration of the natural world.
Many of the paintings displayed are on loan from the Tang family collection, including several major works seldom presented to the public.
Ni Zan’s (1301–1374) River Pavilion, Mountain Colors is a spare, balanced depiction of an empty thatch pavilion from one of China’s most influential artists. “Traveling deep in the mountains” by Wen Zhengming (1470–1559)—one of the great masters of the Wu school—expresses a wistful longing for liberated life in the remote mountains. Finally, “100 cranes among pine trees” by Zou Yigui (1682–1772) ranks among the best examples of Qing court painting. This unusually large creation imagines more than 100 cranes in pine forests on mountain summits, and demonstrates Zou’s mastery of precise details rendered with elegant brushstrokes.
Cost:
Adults $15; Seniors $10; Students & Youth $10; Children (12 & under) Free; Members Free
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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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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.