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.
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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.
Julia Lovell on the Rise of Maoism
March 11, 2021
Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy.
Video: Guobin Yang Discusses the Factional Violence in the Red Guard Movement
March 27, 2017
Guobin Yang examines the factional violence in the Red Guard movement as well as the de-sacralization of that revolutionary culture throughout the 1970s and the rise of a new wave of protest that inaugurated the democratic movements of the reform era.
Walder, China under Mao - A Revolution Derailed (April 6, 2015)
May 12, 2015
Andrew G. Walder's book was reviewed by David Buck for H-Asia and is published here under Creative Commons license.
Kiely, The Compelling Ideal - thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 (January 1, 2014)
February 7, 2015
Jan Kiely book was reviewed by Emily Whewell for H-Asia and is published here under Creative Commons license.
Cook, Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History (March 6, 2014)
December 3, 2014
Alex Zukas reviewed this book for H-Socialisms in November 2014. It is reprinted here through a Creative Commons license.
USC Architecture Students Create Unique Mao Jackets in "Truth in Making, An Architectural Inquiry"
March 20, 2014
USC Architecture's 5th year students created unique Mao style jackets using unexpected materials as part of their studio assignment
Assignment: China - China Watching
February 27, 2014
This segment of the USC U.S.-China Institute series on the work of reporters for American news organizations looks at the period 1949-1971, when most Americans could not visit the People's Republic. Though some non-U.S. citizens reporting for American organizations did manage to get into China, most reporters had to watch what was happening in China from Hong Kong.
Ishikawa, The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party, 2013
January 1, 2013
Yoshihiro Ishikawa's book was translated by Joshua Fogel and reviewed by David Buck for H-Asia.
Calkins, China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54, 2013
January 1, 2013
This book by Laura M. Calkins was reviewed by Mao Lin for the H-Diplo discussion list and is reproduced here under Creative Commons license.
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
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
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
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.