Through Tinted Lenses? - Video from the conference exploring how Americans and Chinese see each other

Friday,
Nov. 1
8 am

Ernest J. Wilson III, Dean
   USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Clayton Dube, USC US-China Institute

David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins University
Security- Relevant Perceptions in U.S.-China Relations: Elites and Society

Tom Hollihan, USC
U.S. Media Coverage of the Diaoyu-Senkaku Dispute

Discussants
June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami
Minxin Pei, Claremont McKenna College

Erin Ennis, U.S.-China Business Council
American Perceptions of the Business Climate in China

Daniel Rosen, Rhodium Group
How Chinese Investors and Businesses View the U.S.

Peter Hays Gries, University of Oklahoma
How Liberal and Nationalist Ideologies Shape Mutual Mis/perceptions in US-China Relations

Daniel Lynch, USC
The Chinese Debate on America's Decline in the 2000s

Discussants
Zheng Wang, Seton Hall University
Xu Wu, Arizona State University

Zhang Hui, Horizon Group
How Young People in China’s Less Well-Known Cities See America

Richard Wike, Pew Research Center
China's Image in the U.S. and around the World

Discussants
Terry Lautz, Syracuse University
Chen Na, Fudan University

Clayton Dube

Simon Shen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chinese Students and Barack Obama

Robeson Taj Frazier, USC
From Mao to Yao: African-American Encounters with China

Discussants
Sheila Melvin, IHT and Caixin
Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego

Sherwood Hu, Shanghai Theatre Academy
Telling Stories

Stanley Rosen, USC
Images of China in Recent American Films

Zhiwei Xiao, California State University, San Marcos
America in Chinese Cinema

Discussant
Wendy Larson, University of Oregon

Clayton Dube

June Teufel Dreyer
June Teufel Dreyer teaches political science at the University of Miami. She earned her doctorate at Harvard University. She is the author of China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition. Dreyer served for six years as a member of the U.S. -China Economic and Security Review Commission and has also been a member of the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Panel. She has consulted on several influential documentaries and is a frequent writer and commentator on Chinese military affairs

Erin Ennis
Erin Ennis has been Vice President of the US-China Business Council since 2005. She directs the Council’s government affairs and advocacy work and oversees its business advisory services on behalf of its 215 member companies. Prior to this, she worked on trade matters at Kissinger McLarty Associates. In the 1990s, Ennis worked at the Office of the US Trade Representative and as a legislative aide to Senator John Breaux. She’s a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the Catholic University of America.

Robeson Taj Frazier
Taj Frazier teaches communication at USC. His research and teaching examine race, cross cultural exchange and traffic, social movements, and popular culture. Frazier traces how articulations and representations of race and gender travel globally through performance, media, art, athletics, diplomacy, and activism. He is currently scrutinizing African American activist intellectuals' cross-cultural exchanges with China from 1949-1976. Prior to coming to USC, Frazier taught at New York University, Princeton University, Berkeley, and the City University of New York. His work has appeared in numerous publications.

Peter Hays Gries
Peter Hays Gries is the Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair & Director of the Institute for US-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of The Politics of American Foreign Policy: How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs (forthcoming), China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy, and is co-editor of Chinese Politics and State and Society in 21st-Century China. Gries has written dozens of academic journal articles and book chapters. He studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on Chinese and American foreign policy.

David M. Lampton
David Lampton is Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Former president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations and Dean of Faculty at SAIS, he is the author of The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds. A Stanford University graduate, Lampton has also received an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the American Studies Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He won the Robert Scalapino Prize in 2010 and is a Gilman Scholar at Johns Hopkins. His newest book, Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, will be published by UC Press in January 2014.

Wendy Larson
Wendy Larson teaches modern Chinese literature and film at the University of Oregon. Her publications include Women and Writing in Modern China, From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th century China, and her current project Peforming China: National Culture on the Global Stage.

Terry Lautz
Terry Lautz is a visiting professor at Syracuse University. For many years he served as vice president of the Luce Foundation. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2010. His publications include book chapters and journal articles on various aspects of Sino-American cultural and educational relations. He is completing a book about John Birch, an American in China who became the namesake of an anti-communist organization in the U.S.

Daniel C. Lynch
Daniel Lynch teaches international relations at USC and is a member of the US-China Institute's Executive Committee.He's the author of two books: Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to “Global Culture” in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan and After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and “Thought Work” in Reformed China.  His forthcoming book examines how Chinese elites envision the future of China’s economy, politics, communication system, and foreign policy—and what the implications are for Western social science models of China’s developmental trajectory.

Minxin Pei
Minxin Pei is Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and directs the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. A frequent contributor to the nation’s op-ed pages and the author of many journal articles, Pei is also known for his books From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union and China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy. Before moving to Claremont McKenna, Pei headed the China program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Daniel Rosen
Daniel H. Rosen is the founding partner of Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s work on China. He is a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and also teaches at Columbia University. He previously served as senior adviser for International Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council. He’s written extensively on China and co-authored An American Open Door? Maximizing the Benefits of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in 2011.

Zheng Wang
Zheng Wang teaches in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He is also a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author of Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations and he co-editor of Clash of National Identities: China, Japan, and the East China Sea Territorial Dispute.

Richard Wike
Richard Wike is directs the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. He conducts research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics, including America’s global image, the rise of China, democracy, and globalization. Previously, he was a Senior Associate for international and corporate clients at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. Wike earned his doctorate at Emory University. He has written for Foreign Policy, The National Interest, BBC, CNN, CNBC, and other online and print publications, and he has been interviewed by news organizations worldwide.

Ernest J. Wilson III
Ernest Wilson holds the Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication and heads the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He has been an pioneering scholar, academic leader, public servant, and White House staffer. He taught at Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, led the Maryland Center for International Development and Conflict Management, served in the Clinton era National Security Council and U.S. Information Agency and advised both the Clinton and Obama transition teams. He served on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and was its chair for a year. His books include Governing Global Networks and The Information Revolution and Developing Countries.

Xu Wu
Xu Wu teaches at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He is the author of Chinese Cyber Nationalism: Evolution, Characteristics and Implications (2007) and Crafting the Chinese Dream for the World: How to Solve China’s Soft Power Deficit (2009). Wu has published extensively in English and Chinese on topics related to cross-cultural communication, crisis communication and Sino-U.S. relationship. He has served as current affairs commentator for China Central Television (CCTV) and Phoenix TV Network.

Zhiwei Xiao
A distinguished scholar of scholar of Chinese film, Zhiwei Xiao teaches history at California State University, San Marcos. The author of numerous book chapters, journal articles, and film reviews, Xiao has written on America in Chinese cinema, China’s film industry, censorship in Republican China and in the early People’s Republic, and other topics. He is co-author (with Yingjin Zhang) of Encyclopedia of Chinese Cinema.