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.
Architecture
Grad student thinks small when crafting Chinese ornaments
USC Dornsife scholar studies tiny wooden replicas of buildings that adorn Buddhist temples and monasteries
USC Architecture Students Create Unique Mao Jackets in "Truth in Making, An Architectural Inquiry"
USC Architecture's 5th year students created unique Mao style jackets using unexpected materials as part of their studio assignment
Leading architects envision digital future in China
Neil Leach's project, displayed in Beijing, documents the "digital infiltration" trend in architecture schools.
Seminar studies sustainable funding for China’s infrastructure
Rapid urbanization has created a need for sustainable funding and financial strategy for infrastructure renewal in China, said Richard Little, a senior fellow at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, in a seminar offered on March 7 by USC Price and the Metrans Transportation Center.
Visser, Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China, 2010
Alexander F. Day reviews the book for H-Urban, January 2011, credit H-Asia.
A Chinese Trading Post in Oshikango, Namibia
UCLA hosts a lecture by Margaret C. Lee as part of the “Economic Change and Emerging Asia-Africa Interactions” lecture series.
The Emerging Geometry of Asia: U.S. Alliances and Asian Architecture
Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosts a discussion by Victor Cha
The Sixth Century as the Seventh and Eighth: Recentering an International Age in Chinese Architectural History
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a lecture on the study of Chinese architecture.
Author Book Talk with Prof. Renee Chow: Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials for Field Urbanism
UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies hosts a talk with Renee Chow.
The Liao Revolution in Building and Design
The Fairbank Center at Harvard University presents a lecture on the architecture of the Liao dynasty (916-1125), which is known for its size and for its dramatic and often unique interior spaces.
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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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Events
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.