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 2016-2017
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)
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)
Elizabeth Economy
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow
Director of Asia Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
(April, 2007 and April, 2009 presentations)
Edward Friedman
Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science
University of Wisconsin
(April, 2007 presentation)
Thomas Gold
Professor, Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Executive Director, Inter-University Program, Tsinghua University
(March, 2010 presentation)
Harry Harding
University Professor and Professor of 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
Dean of Faculty,
George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies
Director, Chinese Studies Program
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Justin Yifu Lin
Professor, Peking University
Director, New Structural Economics of the National School of Development
(April, 2009 presentation)
Andrew J. Nathan
Class of 1919 Professor, Political Science
Columbia University
(April, 2007 presentation)
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)
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)
Susan Shirk
Chair, 21st Century China Center, and Research Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego
(February 2008 presentation)
Ezra F. Vogel
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
David Zweig
Chair Professor, Division of Social Science
Director, Center on Environment, Energy, and Resource Policy
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
(April, 2007, October, 2009, and October 2011 presentations)
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