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9/17/2014 - Dan Washburn and Karl Taro Greenfeld on The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream Wallis Annenberg Hall, ANN 106 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90007 Time: 7:00 - 8:30PM Cost: Free, please e-mail uschina@usc.edu to RSVP. The Forbidden Game follows the lives of three men intimately involved in China''s bizarre golf scene, where new golf courses are at once banned and booming. Washburn, who lived in China from 2002 to 2011, spent more than seven years researching and writing the book described as "strikingly original" by The Wall Street Journal and "gripping" by The Economist. This event is co-sponsored by Asia Society Southern California.
9/18/2014 - Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China Wallis Annenberg Hall, ANN 106 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90007 Time: 4:00 - 5:30PM Cost: Free, please e-mail uschina@usc.edu to RSVP. Simmering grievances among China's ethnic minorities and occasional violent outbursts in minority areas or involving minorities challenge not only the ruling party's legitimacy and governance, but also contemporary Chinese national identity and the territorial integrity of the Chinese state. However, of the fifty-five ethnic minority groups in China, only the Tibetans and Uyghurs have forcefully contested the idea of a Chinese national identity. Tackling this question, Enze Han compares the way five major ethnic minority groups in China negotiate their national identities with the Chinese nation-state: Uyghurs, Chinese Koreans, Dai, Mongols, and Tibetans. Han wants to shed light on the nation-building processes in China over the past six decades and the ways that different groups have resisted or acquiesced in their dealings with the Chinese state and majority Han Chinese society. |
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