Legal scholar and well-known human rights activist Teng Biao gave a talk at USC on the state of human rights in China.
Literature
Author interviews with USCI
February 6, 2020
These short interviews introduce authors of new books about China and about U.S.-China relations.
Frazier, The East is Black - Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination, 2014
June 1, 2017
Robeson Taj Frazier's book was reviewed by Joseph Parrott for the History of African Americans discussion list in June 2017.
Andrew Scobell Discusses His Book "PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking"
March 23, 2016
Andrew Scobell seeks to assess the "real" relationship between the PLA and its civilian masters by moving beyond media and pundit speculation to mount an in-depth examination and explanation of the PLA's role in national security policy-making.
Cho and Crowe, eds, Germany and China: Transnational Spinners Since the Eighteenth-Century, 2014
March 1, 2016
This review by Irmy Schweiger was published on the History of Asia discussion list in March 2016.
Call for Papers - Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies
January 17, 2016
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES (a peer-reviewed English journal, included in ProQuest Database System).The journal is published in English and is edited at Xiamen University.
Video: Tiananmen Revisited with Louisa Lim
December 7, 2015
The USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a book talk by Louisa Lim, an award-winning journalist who has reported from China for a decade. "The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited" discusses how the events of June 4th changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4th by rewriting its own history.
Timothy Heath discusses his book "China's New Governing Party Paradigm"
November 11, 2015
Timothy Heath, Senior International Defense Research Analyst of The RAND Corporation, discusses the historic context, drivers, and meaning of the governing party paradigm in China.
Brett Sheehan discusses his book "Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision"
October 6, 2015
Brett Sheehan discusses his new book, which studies the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicling the fortunes of the Song family of North China under five successive authoritarian governments.
Q&A With Ken Liu, Translator of "The Three-Body Problem"
September 11, 2015
US-China Today interviews Ken Liu, an acclaimed writer of speculative fiction and the translator of the Hugo award-winning novel, "The Three Body Problem."
Kinkley, Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels (November 18, 2014)
August 10, 2015
Jeffrey C. Kinkley's book was reviewed by Nathaniel Isaacson for H-Net Reviews and is published here under Creative Commons license.
Pages
Featured Articles
March 16, 2020
Dr. Cara Wallis, associate professor at Texas A&M University's department of communication, was featured for the annual Walt Fisher Lecture at the USC Annenberg School of Communication.
Events
April 9, 2020 - 4:00pm
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for an online talk with Julia Strauss on her new book, which focuses on the period 1949 to 1954 and compares how the Communist Party in China and the Nationalist Party in Taiwan sought to consolidate their authority and foster economic development.
April 16, 2020 - 4:00pm
The USC U.S.-China institute presents a webcast with award-winning journalist Dexter Robert. His new book explores the reality behind today’s financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.