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.
USCI Board of Scholars, 2023-2024
William Alford
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
Vice Dean, Graduate Program and International Legal Studies
Director, East Asian Legal Studies
Harvard Law School
(December, 2007 presentation)
Iris Chi 齊銥
Emerita Professor (Golden Age Association Frances Wu Professor for Chinese Elderly), Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
University of Southern California
Warren I. Cohen
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
History Presidential Research Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
(April, 2007 discussant)
June Teufel Dreyer
Professor, Political Science
University of Miami
(April, 2007 presentation, October, 2013 discussant)
Elizabeth Economy
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Stanford University
(April, 2007 and April, 2009 presentations)
Edward Friedman
Emeritus Professor, Political Science
University of Wisconsin
(April, 2007 presentation)
Thomas Gold
Emeritus Professor, Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
(March, 2010 presentation)
Harry Harding
University Professor Emeritus, Public Policy
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
University of Virginia
(April, 2007 discussant; February 2008 keynote presentation)
Alastair Iain Johnston
Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government
Harvard University
David M. Lampton
Professor Emeritus (George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies), School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
(November, 2013 and October, 2020 presentations)
Justin Yifu Lin
Professor, Peking University
Director, New Structural Economics of the National School of Development
(April, 2009 presentation)
Daniel Lynch
Professor, Public and International Affairs
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
City University of Hong Kong
formerly of USC
William H. Overholt
Senior Research Fellow
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
(April, 2007 and November, 2007 presentations)
Orville Schell
Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations
Asia Society
Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Journalism
University of California, Berkeley
(April, 2007 discussant and July, 2013 book discussion)
Shen Dingli
Professor, International Relations
Director, Center for American Studies
Executive Vice Dean, Insitute of International Affairs
Fudan University
(January, 2009 and February 2009 presentations, September, 2010 documentary, April 2016 presentation)
Susan Shirk
Chair Emeritus, 21st Century China Center, School of Global Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego
(February 2008 presentation)
Ezra F. Vogel
(1930-2020)
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus
Harvard University
(November, 2011 presentation)
Andrew G. Walder
Professor, Sociology
Senior Fellow, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University
(April, 2007 discussant)
Dali L. Yang
Professor, Political Science
University of Chicago
(September, 2016 presentation)
David Zweig
Chair Professor Emeritus, Division of Social Science
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
(April, 2007, October, 2009, October 2011, January, 2015 and July, 2020 presentations)
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