USC Annenberg Professor Nick Cull looks at the impact of the Covid 19 crisis on the battle of images between the United States and China.
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Video: Dexter Roberts on the myth of Chinese capitalism
April 20, 2020
Dexter Roberts's new book explores the reality behind today’s financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.
Video: Teng Biao on human rights in China
March 16, 2020
Legal scholar and well-known human rights activist Teng Biao gave a talk at USC on the state of human rights in China.
Video: Jeff Wasserstrom on the history of protests in Hong Kong
February 6, 2020
In this illustrated presentation, Prof. Wasserstrom puts events since the 1997 Handover and particularly since the 2014 Umbrella Movement into comparative and historical perspective.
PRC State Council, Equality, Development and Sharing: Progress of Women's Cause in 70 Years Since New China's Founding, September 2019
February 3, 2020
This government white paper was published in advance of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China
Video: Matt Sheehan Looks at Socioeconomic Ties between China and California
October 22, 2019
Despite tensions between the Chinese and American governments, the state of California has deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges with China that reverberate across the globe. Matt Sheehan examines these interactions that make California a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the twenty-first century.
Matt Sheehan on the Exchanges Between China And California
October 22, 2019
China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, and these interactions make California a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the twenty-first century. In his book, journalist Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections.
PRC State Council, China and the World in the New Era, September 2019
September 28, 2019
The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China published this white paper on China’s ties with the wider world.
PRC State Council, Vocational Education and Training in Xinjiang, August 2019
August 16, 2019
The Chinese government released this white paper on its programs in Xinjiang, describing them as an effective response to terrorism and extremism.
Lily Wong Looks at Shifting Depictions of Chinese Sex Workers in Popular Media
May 15, 2019
Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures.
Video: Manfred Elfstrom Looks at Labor Unrest in China
April 30, 2019
Manfred Elfstrom's research looks at the growing wave of labor unrest in China, the state's response, and the the long-term implications for both activists and the government.
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May 22, 2020
Gary Rieschel, founder of Qiming Venture Partners, takes a look at how innovative China has been and how the US-China rivalry may spur or stifle innovation.
Events
June 4, 2020 - 5:00pm
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a discussion with Hong Kong based author and photographer Antony Dapiran for a look at his new book on the city's protests and what they mean for the future of Hong Kong and China.
June 11, 2020 - 4:00pm
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for an online discussion with Professor Margaret Lewis on how the US government's use of criminal prosecutions to address a broad "China" threat is at tension with the criminal justice system.