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
Religious Policies in the PRC: A Sociopolitical History
UC Berkeley presents a talk by Fenggang Yang on the historical and political backgrounds of the religious policies of the Chinese Communist Party since 1949.
Buddhist Art in 10th Century Dunhuang: The Politics of Patronage and Image-making
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University presents a discussion with Qiang Ning on the politically motivated pictorial programs at the Buddhist site of Mogao in the local/historical context of 10th century Dunhuang.
Religion in China Today
Princeton University presents a talk with Fenggang Yang.
Seeing Buddha, the Photographic Experience
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford presents photojournalist David Butow. In this collection, Butow decided to explore the parallels of his craft with some of the Buddhist concepts he'd been studying such as empathy, compassion and awareness of the present moment.
The Background to the Revival of Interest in Buddhism during the Late Qing Dynasty: Cultural Crisis and the Interest in Religion in China around 1900
The East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University presents a seminar taught by Stephen Teiser and Ge Zhaoguang.
Virgin Mothers and Hell-bent Sons: Daoist Rituals for Delivering Mothers from Blood Lake Hell
Colloqium talk by Professor Jessey Choo (Rutgers University). A UCLA Center for the Study of Religion event cosponsored by the Center for Buddhist Studies.
September 2010 24th Conference on the Catholic Church in China Early Bird Deadline - July 31st
A Chinese Catholic Life of Faith
China Onscreen Biennial: The Cremator (焚尸人 ) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, Director Peng Tao achieves soaring humanism and lyricism in this portrait of life among the lonely. Cremator Cao makes a living incinerating the dead, while secretly selling “ghost wives” to bereaved families seeking companions for their recently deceased, single sons.
Young, Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China, 2015
Christoph Anderl and Laurent Van Cutsem reviewed Stuart Young's book for the History of Buddhism discussion list. The review is reprinted through 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.