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.
Culture
Assignment: China - USCI's series on American reporting on China
May 31, 2019
How do we know what we know about China? The images most Americans hold of China were shaped by news coverage. Our multipart documentary series Assignment: China focuses on the journalists who have described the remarkable changes in China since the 1940s. Two of the most influential moments in this history were the Nixon visit in 1972 and the Tiananmen demonstrations of 1989. The correspondents interviewed for the series have helped news consumers understand how China's opening up and subsequent economic rise have reshaped the world.
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.
Salutatorian Haochen Wang went from struggling in middle school to singing with the Rolling Stones
May 13, 2019
Growing up in China, Haochen Wang struggled with his studies. But after deciding to learn for fun, not validation, this USC 2019 salutatorian found his passions: math, science and even music.
Haochen Wang from Anhui to USC Salutatorian
May 7, 2019
Growing up in China, Haochen Wang struggled with his studies. But after deciding to learn for fun, not validation, this USC 2019 salutatorian found his passions: math, science and even music.
Q&A With Bohan Phoenix About Hip-Hop & Cultural Expression In China
May 2, 2019
US-China Today spoke with Bohan Phoenix, a Chinese American hip-hop artist based in New York about Chinese hip-hop and its power to bridge the cultural divide between east and west.
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.
PRC State Council, Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years On, March 27, 2019
March 27, 2019
The Chinese government released this white paper.
USC And China In The News - January And February, 2019
February 28, 2019
China-related news involving USC research, faculty, students and organizations.
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Featured Articles
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.