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.
Shanghai Disney closure
This has been the longest closure of Shanghai Disneyland since its opening.
February 6, 2020
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On January 24th, Shanghai Disney Resort announced it would shut its doors because of the coronavirus outbreak and “continue to carefully monitor the situation and be in close contact with the local government.” Hong Kong Disneyland followed suit soon after. It has been two weeks and there is still no sign of either theme park opening again.
The closure occurred right before the Lunar New Year holiday, which brought so many visitors to Shanghai Disneyland in 2018 that the park had to stop selling tickets. While the financial impact to The Walt Disney Company is still unclear, on a call to investors on Tuesday, executives said that a two-month closure of both parks could cost Disney $175 million in revenues.
California’s Disneyland Resort (like other tourist attractions) is also affected by the outbreak. Los Angeles is the most popular American destination for Chinese tourists. Before the outbreak led to the cancellation of many flights and worries about quarantines, there were 149 nonstop flights to California from China each week. In 2019, Chinese visitors spent over $4 billion in California.
More about Disney in China:
- The Executive Creative Producer of Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland was interviewed on the China Life podcast about her time in the country.
- US-China Today looked into the poor performance of Hong Kong Disneyland back in 2008.
- Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger talked about the company's three key priorities at the 2015 USC Global Conference.
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