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.
Music
Two Afternoons of Kwun and Yueju Opera
The Velaslavasay Panorama presents "Pursuing the Verdant Dream: Two Afternoons of Kwun & Yueju Opera" directed by Professor Zhao Gan Li.
Sensing Taiwan: Hakka Music Events
The Indiana University - Bloomington East Asian Studies Center presents Sensing Taiwan: Hakka music events with music from Taiwan.
Music in the Chinese Garden - Qichao Liu on dizi and sheng
A different solo musician will perform each week inside the Love for the Lotus Pavilion, playing unamplified melodies on classical instruments including the dizi, sheng, pipa, erhu, and zheng.
Taiwan: The Heart of Asia
The program is a fusion of Taiwanese acrobatics and creative performances with Western elements, together with Hakka and Taiwanese aboriginal music and dance, presenting a mixture of Taiwanese cultures.
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, excerpts from the new opera by Huang Ruo
The Asia Society New York presents excerpts from new opera by composer Huang Ruo.
"Returning Souls" Film Screening and Musical Performance
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of Anthropology, and Taiwan Focus present a screening of Returning Souls directed by Hu Tai-Li. Discussion and Q&A with filmmaker to follow, moderated by Myron Cohen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
Spring Harmony: Chinese Music Concert
The Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies co-hosts the WEsleyan Chinese Music Ensemble for their spring concert
Metropolis!
30 performers direct from Houston's sister city Shenzhen (China) bring you this entertaining Broadway-style musical that bridges Chinese and Western performing arts with spoken word, lyrics, music, acting, singing and dancing.
Shredding for the Motherland: The Guitar in China
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley presents a talk with James Millward on the guitar's place in Chinese society.
Film Screening: My Dad's a Rocker
Stanford University's Center For East Asian Studies hosts a screening of My Dad's a Rocker as part of the UNAFF 2015 International Documentary Film Festival
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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.