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Video: David Zweig Speaks On The War For Chinese Talent In The United States

David Zweig, our event speaker
April 24, 2024

David Zweig is a renowned scholar who focused on China's efforts to build its talent. His insight into the War For Chinese Talent provides us with a different way to look at policy implications for Chinese scholars.

Video: From Netflix to iQiyi: As the World Turns, Serial Dramas in Virtual Circulation

Image highlights Ying's speech and Chinese programs on the Netflix streaming service.
March 22, 2024

Ying Zhu, the professor in the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University, discussed the evolution of serial narrative storytelling and its dynamic relationship with streaming services in the U.S. and China.

Video: Shibani Mahtani and Tim McLaughlin Discuss Among the Braves

Authors Shibani Mahtani and Tim McLaughlin and the cover of their book, Among the Braves, USCI.
November 21, 2023

Mahtani and McLaughlin were on the ground in Hong Kong and provide this history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's crackdown.

Video: Ian Johnson on Sparks, his look at China's Underground Historians

Ian Johnson, speaking about his book Sparks at the USC U.S.-China Institute on 2023-10-16.
November 14, 2023

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson spent a decade researching the work of these unofficial historians of China's recent past. This compelling study introduces readers to writers, filmmakers and artists, determined to preserve stories about mass movements that affected millions but get scant attention in the party-state's official history.

Video: Lisa Hanson on China's Gaming Giants Going Global

Chinese team competing in the esports contest at the Hangzhou Asian Games, 2023
October 20, 2023

Tencent, NetEase and other successful Chinese video game companies are aiming to expand and deepen their reach in overseas markets. They've enjoyed success, but some less well-known firms such as MiHoYo earn the bulk of their revenues abroad. Lisa Cosmas Hanson, CEO of Niko Partners, analyzes the hurdles Chinese firms confront and discusses the strategies they use. Are they succeeding?

Video: Suisheng Zhao on The Dragon Roars Back, China's Foreign Policy

May 19, 2023

Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.

Video: Mike Chinoy on Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic

Photo by Jim Laurie, shooting video in China for ABC in 1981. Used by permission.
April 13, 2023

How have print, broadcast and now internet-centric journalists reported on the dramatic changes in China over the past eight decades?

Video - Heribert Dieter examines Europe-China ties in a changing geopolitical environment

May 12, 2022

For decades, European countries assumed that China is a benign force in international relations.

Assignment: China - USCI's series on American reporting on China

Photo by Jim Laurie.
April 20, 2022

How do we know what we know about China? The images most Americans hold of China were shaped by news coverage. Our multipart documentary series Assignment: China focuses on the journalists who have described the remarkable changes in China since the 1940s. Two of the most influential moments in this history were the Nixon visit in 1972 and the Tiananmen demonstrations of 1989. The correspondents interviewed for the series have helped news consumers understand how China's opening up and subsequent economic rise have reshaped the world. 

The Great Wager - U.S.-China Ties from Nixon to Now

February 25, 2022

Veteran journalists Jane Perlez and Scott Tong talked about their new radio series and their own experiences on reporting from China.

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