On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
Culture
Screening - My Voice, My Life
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Ruby Yang’s newest film, My Voice, My Life follows an unlikely group of misfit high school students from Hong Kong cast together for a musical theater performance. This film will be screened at the Laemmle Theatre from September 4 to September 10, 2015.
17th Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival
The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Organization and the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries will screen seven fascinating films about the city's many faces – both traditional and modern.
School Education, Political Ideology and Social Mobility: A Comparative Study of 1950's Mainland China and Taiwan
The Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Assistant Professor Osawa Hajime titled, "School Education, Political Ideology and Social Mobility: A Comparative Study of 1950's Mainland China and Taiwan."
Free Screening: Red Race
Against the backdrop of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and escalating international condemnation and demonstrations over Chinese policies from Tibet to Darfur, THE RED RACE presents a detailed insight into the Chinese passion for gymnastics.
Talk by Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies will host Dingxin Zhao, Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology from the University of Chicago.
Critiques of State Power in Visual and Literary Representations across Eurasia
The UCLA Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies presents a talk on visual and literary representations in eighteenth century Eurasia as a part of the core conference "Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900."
Chinese Tea Workshop
The Hungtington presents a presentation on the history of Chinese tea. The session includes a tasting of rare, high-end teas brewed by different methods.
Ancient Sichuan: The Origins and Development of Complex Society in the Chengdu Plain
Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents Rowan Flad.
"Expanding Cities and Transforming Religions in Contemporary China," with Professor Robert Weller
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies presents a talk by Robert P. Weller, Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University.
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 4:00pm PST
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 4:00pm
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?