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.
Religion
Liu, "In search of immortality: Daoist inner alchemy in early twentieth-century China," 2001
USC Dissertation in Religion.
Chang, "Family matters: Women's negotiation with Confucian family ethics in Qing and republican China," 2007
USC dissertation in East Asian Languages and Culture.
U.S. Department of State, 2008 Human Rights in China, February 25, 2009
This report is produced annually by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Creating Networks and Research Collaborations in China
USCI Faculty Grant recipient Donald Miller (Center for Religion and Civic Culture) reports on his recent trip to China to explore historical and contemporary religious expression.
Election ’08 and the Challenge of China - USCI Documentary
The U.S.-China relationship is complicated and is vital for both countries and the world. Where do Senators McCain and Obama stand on U.S.-China trade, security, environmental, and human rights issues? How important has policy toward China been in past elections and in 2008? These are the questions explored in a USC U.S.-China Institute documentary.
International Religious Freedom Report 2008
China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau)
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
U.S. Department of State, International Religious Freedom Report 2008 – China, September 19, 2008
The U.S. Congress mandates that the State Department prepare an annual report on religious freedom around the world.
China's Revival of Confucianism
Joy Lam investigates the social context that enables the revival of Confucianism in China and its social and political implications.
2008-2009 USCI Graduate Summer Fieldwork Grants
Grant recipients return from abroad and report on their summer research.
Zhang Boshu, "The Way to Resolve the Tibet Issue," April 2008
The article below was written in Chinese and widely distributed among Chinese language websites. The English translation follows the Chinese original except in putting the biographical note first. While numbers for endnotes appear in the text, there were no notes appended to the version used for the translation. As is evident from the essay, Zhang does not represent the Chinese government.
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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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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.