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.
Talking Points: Thanksgiving Issue, 2014
A special recipe from Chef Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook fame.
November 26, 2014
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Talking Points Thanksgiving Issue, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving! 感恩节好! If this gorgeous pumpkin stew is making you hungry, it’s okay to skip down to the recipe below. (Photos courtesy of Martin Yan.) Click here to read our regular Talking Points issue from earlier this week. We at the USC U.S.-China Institute have much to be grateful for, beginning with those who give time, energy, and money to support and participate in our efforts. These include a wide variety of people in the U.S., China, and elsewhere. And it includes you. Thank you for reading Talking Points and encouraging others to join our mailing list. Martin Yan 甄 文 達 loves food, loves preparing it, and sharing his passion for it with others. In a career
spanning four decades, Yan has produced more than 3,500 television episodes which have been broadcast in more than 50 countries. More people have seen prepare Chinese food than any other chef in America. His 30 cookbooks have helped many explore different Chinese cuisines. In addition, he has three restaurants, takes fans on culinary tours, and runs a culinary academy in Shenzhen. His energy, knowledge, and infectious enthusiasm has won him legions of fans and two prestigious James Beard Awards for the top food documentary. Yan was born in Guangzhou and grew up in his mother’s restaurant. He was trained in Hong Kong and eventually moved to Canada. On a slow news day, a local station asked him to prepare a dish on air. The industry that is Martin Yan was born. He describes himself as a cultural ambassador. Yan’s knife work is legendary. The San Jose Mercury News reported that even students at his culinary academy, who have presumably seen the master’s knife work on television, were stunned when he deboned a chicken in just 15 seconds. But Yan argues that good cooks don’t just have the mechanics down, but also pay attention to the science of cooking. Though he’d been working in restaurants for ten years, he enrolled at the University of California, Davis and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in food science.
Below is the recipe for Chef Yan’s pumpkin stew 杞子燴南瓜. To learn more about Yan, please visit his website and Facebook page. Both have plenty of videos with Yan’s trademark humor and skills. His new television show is Martin Yan’s Taste of Vietnam and is being aired on public television stations across the U.S. A big thanks to Chef Yan for selecting this recipe for Talking Points readers. Getting hungry? Previous Thanksgiving specials from Madame Wu and Ming Tsai are available. *****
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We're at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and iTunes. Pumpkin Stew Ingredients Seasonings Cooking Method 杞子燴南瓜 (四至六人用) 材料: 調味料: 做法: 2. 大火燒熱1 湯匙油, 炒香素火腿, 加入南瓜、杞子及蔥炒2分鐘, 加入油燜筍及調味料, 加蓋, 中火燜5分鐘, 盛碗, 趁熱享用。 USC | California | North America | Exhibitions  USC Events 01/23/2015: Screening: Roulette CityUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357 Time: 5:00 - 9:00PM Cost: Free USC Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures presents "Roulette City", a film about a boy named Tak who goes to Macau and learns about luck, loyalty, and love. The screening will be followed by a talk with writer/director Thomas Lim.
California Events
 11/30/2014: Exclusive Pre-release Presentation & Book Signing: Mystery of the Giant Masks of SanxingduiBowers Museum, Kershaw Auditorium 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706 Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM Cost: Free to members; free with paid admission; $8 individual At Bowers Museum, Icy Smith, author, educator and publisher, East West Discovery Press, and Gayle Garner Roski, illustrator and artist, will present the book Mystery of the Giant Masks of Sanxingdui.
 12/04/2014: 1943 - China at the CrossroadsUC Berkeley, 180 Doe Library 412 McLaughlin Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-6000 Time: 12:00PM - 2:00PM The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley presents a talk with Professor Joseph Esherick to discuss China's one critical year, 1943.
 12/04/2014: How to Commit to the Traumatic Past: Knowledge and Book Space in Ding Yaokang, Sequel to "Plum in the Golden Vase"UCLA, Bunche Hall 10383 315 Portola Plaza , Los Angeles, CA 90095 Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM Cost: Free The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies presents Dr. Xiaoqiao Ling, speaking about Ding Yaokang's novel sequel to Xu Jin Ping Mei (A sequel to Plum in a Golden Vase).
 12/04/2014: Indian Literature and Culture in Medieval China: A Focus on Manuscripts from Dunhuang and TurfanStanford University, Main Quad, Building 70, Room 72A1 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford presents a lecture with Professor Chen Ming from Peking University discussing translations of Indian manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan.
 12/04/2014: From Baghdad to Beijing: Reflections of a Foreign CorrespondentUC San Diego, The Great Hall 9500 Gilman Dr #0550, La Jolla, CA 92093 Time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM Cost: Free 21st Century China Program presents foreign correspondent Evan Osnos. He will discuss his new book "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China," as well as his reflections on the pitfalls and challenges of being a foreign correspondent.
 12/05/2014: Organized Knowledge and State Socialism, 1949-1978UC Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, Fifth floor conference room 1995 University Avenue, Berkeley, California 94720-2318 Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM UC Berkeley presents a workshop investigating knowledge production during the Maoist period (1949-1978) of the People's Republic of China.
North America Events 12/02/2014: Social Mobility and Revolution: The Impact of the Abolition of China's Civil Service Exam SystemUniversity of Chicago, Pick Hall, Lounge 5828 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM The University of Chicago's Center of East Asians Studies presents a workshop discussing the abolition of China's imperial examination.
 12/07/2014: Screening - The PuppetmasterFreer Gallery of Art-Meyer Auditorium 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560 Time: 2:00PM - 4:25PM The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art presents a screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's film "The Puppetmaster". Richard Suchenski, director of the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College and editor of Hou Hsiao-hsien, will introduce the screening and do a book signing. Below are exhibitions ending in the next two weeks. Please visit the main exhibitions calendarfor a complete list of ongoing exhibitions.
 ends 12/07/2014: Chen Shaoxiong: Ink. History. MediaAsian Art Museum- Foster Galleries 1400 East Prospect Street, Seattle, WA 98112 Chen Shaoxiong (born 1962) was a founding member of the "Big Tail Elephant Group" of conceptual artists in Guangzhou in the 1990's. Today, he works both independently and collaboratively as a member of an Asian artist collective called "Xijing Men" as well as another Chinese artist collective, "Project without Space." His art crosses mediums, including painting, photography, collage, and conceptual art.
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