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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Getting to Know You -- The US and China Shake the World, 1971-1972
What U.S. documents reveal about the uncertain path to rapprochement.
Josh Stamberg on "Top Secret" in China
Video of a presentation at the USC U.S.-China Institute symposium on the play that recently toured China and the role of the Chinese press.
Jason Xia on "Top Secret" in China
Video of a presentation at the USC U.S.-China Institute symposium on the play that recently toured China and the role of the Chinese press.
Assignment: China - The Week that Changed the World
Richard Nixon described his 1972 trip to China as "the week that changed the world." This segment in the USC U.S.-China Institute's series on American reporting on China focuses on coverage of that historic summit.
Getting to Beijing: Henry Kissinger's Secret 1971 Trip
A documentary history of US efforts under Richard Nixon to open discussions with Chinese leaders, an effort that yielded Kissinger's trip forty years ago this month. Photo: Premier Zhou Enlai and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
U.S. Department of State, "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XVIII"
The U.S. Dept of State Office of the Historian's "Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)" series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
U.S. State Department Fact Sheet on High Level U.S. - China Visits, 2006
Summaries of visits by U.S. presidents to China and Chinese leaders to the U.S., 1972-2005
U.S. Department of State, "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume E-13" Documents of China
The U.S. Dept of State Office of the Historian's "Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)" series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
U.S. Department of State, "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XVII"
The U.S. Dept of State Office of the Historian's "Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)" series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
Deng Xiaoping, "The U.S. should take the initiative in putting an end to the strains in Sino-American relations," Oct. 31, 1989
Excerpt from remarks Deng made to former President Richard Nixon in Beijing.
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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.