10/14/2014 - U.S.-China Collaboration in Educational Equality

Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, ASC G24

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90007

Time：4:00 - 5:00PM

Cost：Free, please e-mail uschina@usc.edu to RSVP.

Come hear from USC U.S.-China Institute Executive Director, Clayton Dube, and Teach For China alum and recruiter, Jarlene Choy, discuss ways that U.S. and Chinese young leaders are working together to address educational inequality and foster social entrepreneurship in under-resourced parts of China. This is a broader discussion on educational inequality in China and an opportunity to learn how you can make a difference in under-resourced communities in China.

Clayton Dube has headed the USC U.S.-China Institute since it was established in 2006. The institute focuses on the multidimensional and evolving U.S.-China relationship. Dube was trained as an economic historian, lived in China for five years（1982-85 and 1991-1992）and has visited dozens of times for research, to lead delegations, or to lecture or participate in conferences. Dube has won teaching awards at three universities. He's long been committed to informing public discussion about China and about the U.S.-China relationship.

Jarlene Choy served as a Teach For China fellow in Yunnan for two years. She has spent over 3 years working in China, including at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou. Passionate about U.S.-China relations, she's served as a 100K Strong Ambassador and Project Pengyou Leadership Fellow. Currently she is the West Coast regional US Recruiting Manager for Teach For China. To learn more about the Teach For China Fellowship, she welcomes you to contact her at Jarlene.Choy@tfchina.org.

This event is co-sponsored by Teach For China. 

10/14/2014 - 2014 Global Exchange Workshop Screening 

USC School of Cinematic Arts, Room 112

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90007

Time：7:30-9:30PM

The Global Exchange Workshop, now in its eighth year, teams up eight USC SCA MFA students with 8 CUC MFA students, to produce documentaries in a 7-week bilingual course, offered in alternate summers in Beijing and Los Angeles. The course was founded by Professor Marsha Kinder &  Professor Mark Harris.

Films: 

Once Upon a Time in the East, by Zhang Chenzi & Andrew Vasquez

Leftover Park, by Li Hongpei & Craig David Smith
The Boundary, by Zhang Ye & Ge Yufan
Exploring Jerry, by Xing Ya' nan & Evita M. Castine
Lilliput, by Chen XuanYing & Rachel Victoria Byrd
Dama Dance, by Yang Yinglong & Anna Romano
C.U.C. Doesn't Sleep, by Wang Danrui & R. Maynard
To the Quarry and Back, by Lu Xi & Eddie Mattola

10/16/2014 - Teaching Confucius in Beijing

Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, ASC G34

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90007

Time：4:00 - 5:30PM

Cost：Free, please e-mail uschina@usc.edu to RSVP.

This talk will consider the limits of the Confucian revival in China, especially the ways in which rapid modernization works against a macro-political assertion of Confucian principles. Reference will be made to Professor Crane's experience this past summer teaching a course on Confucianism at the International Summer School at Renmin University in Beijing.  

Sam Crane is the Chair of the Political Science Department at Williams College where he teaches, among other topics, contemporary Chinese politics and ancient Chinese philosophy.  His most recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao：Ancient Chinese Thought in Modern American Life（Wiley 2013）, interprets contentious social issues in the US（abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia）using concepts drawn from pre-Qin Confucianism and Daoism.  He blogs at The Useless Tree. 

11/5/2014 - 2014 U.S.-China Summit & Gala Dinner

Millennium Biltmore Hotel

506 South Grand Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Time：9:00-5:00pm

As Hollywood scales new box-office heights in China and Chinese investors and creative talent deepen their roles in Hollywood, Asia Society Southern California presents its Fifth Annual U.S.-China Film Summit. The highly anticipated event, the flagship of the Asia Society's Entertainment and Media in Asia（EMASIA）series, will take place at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, followed by a Gala Dinner.

Featuring five insightful panel discussions, this year's timely Summit will focus on trends in U.S.-Chinese co-production and examine new dynamics in cross-border entertainment, including film finance, development of television programs and the rapid convergence of old and new media in China. 

The program will also feature individual presentations by, among others:

• Guo Guangchang, Chairman of Fosun International, who will deliver a keynote address on the future of Chinese capital in Hollywood. Fosun is investing $200 million in Studio 8, a production company launched by former Warner Bros. executive Jeff Robinov.
• Charles Rivkin, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs and former CEO of Jim Henson Company, who will deliver opening remarks.
• Miao Xiaotian, President of the China Film Co-Production Corporation, who will participate in a luncheon conversation.

Panel topics include:

• Transformers and Beyond：Inside the process of creating U.S.-Chinese tentpole films
• New Players：Fresh forces in cross-border film finance
• Serial Dreams: Opportunities and challenges for developing episodic programs for broadcast TV or digital distribution
• Content Convergence: How BAT（Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent）are changing the world
• The C-Suite View: Big-picture strategies for U.S.-China film 

Click here for more information: asiasociety.org/us-china-film-summit

Registration Now Open! Click here to register

To receive the USC US-China Institute supporting organization discount, please enter the promotional code at check out to reveal the discounted rates: USCIsummit2014

This event is organization by the Asia Society Southern California. The USC U.S.-China Institute is a supporting organization. 

11/19/2014 - China's Green Religion

Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, ASC G34

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90007

Time：4:00 - 5:30PM

Cost：Free, please e-mail uschina@usc.edu to RSVP.

The monumental task that China faces in the 21st century is to create a way of development that does not destroy the ecological foundations for the life and livelihood of its 1.4 billion citizens. This requires a creative leap beyond the Enlightenment mentality and the Western model of industrialization. Can China's cultural traditions, its religious values, ideals and ways of life, play a role in building a sustainable China? James Miller discusses the contribution of Daoism, China's indigenous religion, to this urgent debate.

James Miller is Professor of Chinese Religions at Queen's University, Canada. His research focuses on the social imagination of nature in China, and he has published five books including most recently Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China（co-edited with Dan Smyer Yu and Peter van der Veer, Routledge 2014）.

This event is co-sponsored by the USC School of Religion. 

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Enter at the Figueroa Street Entrance at 35th Street（Entrance 3）
 
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