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.
Architecture
Grad student thinks small when crafting Chinese ornaments
USC Dornsife scholar studies tiny wooden replicas of buildings that adorn Buddhist temples and monasteries
USC Architecture Students Create Unique Mao Jackets in "Truth in Making, An Architectural Inquiry"
USC Architecture's 5th year students created unique Mao style jackets using unexpected materials as part of their studio assignment
Leading architects envision digital future in China
Neil Leach's project, displayed in Beijing, documents the "digital infiltration" trend in architecture schools.
Seminar studies sustainable funding for China’s infrastructure
Rapid urbanization has created a need for sustainable funding and financial strategy for infrastructure renewal in China, said Richard Little, a senior fellow at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, in a seminar offered on March 7 by USC Price and the Metrans Transportation Center.
Visser, Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China, 2010
Alexander F. Day reviews the book for H-Urban, January 2011, credit H-Asia.
Gallery of Chinese Architecture
The Royal Ontario Museum is currently displaying its Gallery of Chinese Architecture, the largest collection of Chinese architectural artifacts outside of China.
Penn Museum China Gallery
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is currently holding a China Gallery.
Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee, 1923-1968
The Museum of Chinese in America presents a survey exhibition exploring Poy Gum Lee’s (1900-1968) nearly 50-year long career in both China and New York and examines Lee’s modernist influence in New York Chinatown.
Five Features of Korean Three Kingdoms Period Architecture & How They Relate to China
A talk exploring Korean Three Kingdoms Period Architecture in the fifth and sixth centuries.
SUB URBANISMS: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns and the Contested American Landscape
The Museum of Chinese in America presents SUB URBANISMS, an award-winning anthropological case study by architecture professor and curator Stephen Fan which will explore the controversial conversion of suburban single-family homes into multi-family communities by immigrant Chinese casino workers in Connecticut.
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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.