Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Culture
Screening: 2017 Global Exchange Workshop Films
The public is invited to the premiere of new short films by the 2017 Global Exchange Workshop, a collaboration between the University of Southern California School of Cinematic
Arts, and the Communications University of China, School of Theatre, Film & Television.
Data, Society and Inference Seminar: How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
This cross-disciplinary seminar series will feature speakers tackling social science questions with big data and cutting-edge computation, data analysis, and inference techniques.
Elite Mobilization and Social Poilcymaking in an Authoritarian Regime: Evidence from China's National Assemblies, 1983-2007
The University of Texas at Austin Center for East Asian Studies will host Xiaobo Lu for a public talk as a part of the Center's East Asian Political Economy lecture series.
Everlasting Regret
2005 film adaptation of Wang Anyi's award-winning novel.
Chinese Folk Pottery: The Art of the Everyday
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 8, 7:30 - 9 p.m.
Yi Yi: A One and A Two
A part of the Taiwanese Film Series at the Maridon Museum.
From Our Eyes: Community Media and Visual Ethnography in China
This event showcases two recent documentary films produced through community media and participatory video training projects organized by From Our Eyes, a cultural heritage and media NGO based in Kunming, Yunnan Province. The film screenings, including a collaboratively produced short by art students and a Baiku Yao filmmaker and a feature-length documentary by first-time a Tibetan filmmaker from Sichuan Province, will be followed by discussion with two co-directors of From Our Eyes and an anthropologist researching rural media in ethnic minority China.
Screening – Cut Out The Eyes
The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art presents a screening of Xu Tong's documentary "Cut Out the Eyes" which presents a vibrant portrait of folk and popular culture in lnner Mongolia. Er Housheng is an itinerant performer presenting boisterous, musically infused epic poems recounting his life's travails. A survivor of many hardships (the title provides a hint), he is a folk hero to rural audiences, who respond heartily to his roguish charisma and sung summations of universal human foibles.
Patterns of Interaction in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Painting
UC Berkeley presents James Cahill's discussion on observations about cross-cultural borrowings of styles and motifs between the three great East Asian cultures.
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Featured Articles
January 4, 2024
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
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?