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| USC US-China Institute：Talking Points - Summer Vacation Issue |
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| 2016/7/11 6:01:40 ｜ 浏览：2493 ｜ 评论：1 |
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Talking Points
Vacation Issue, Summer 2016
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Dear Zhenying:
Over 330,000 Chinese are studying in the US and on average more than 8,000 Chinese come to the US everyday to study, do business and travel. Many tourist destinations have caught on, beginning with Los Angeles, New York, amusement parks and outlet malls. But the tourists are increasingly visiting a greater variety of places, including national parks.
This week, the Idaho Falls newspaper reported that the flow of Yellowstone-bound Chinese tourists had caused one local hotel to hire a Chinese-speaking receptionist and other businesses were printing information in Chinese. The Billings, Montana paper reported that Yellowstone had recruited three Chinese-speaking rangers to offer guided walks, introductions to the park and more.
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Yellowstone and other national parks seek to serve visitors from all over the world. At some of the visitor centers exhibition explanations are available in several languages including Chinese. |
By chance, we tied a Montana business training program into a quick visit to the park just last week, encountering more than a few of the visiting Chinese. Many were students in pairs or families, but others were on package tours.
In some of the park's visitor centers you displays include Chinese translations（though they are inexplicably listed as 普通话 rather than 简体字中文）along with translations in Spanish, Japanese, and other languages.
Sadly, we don't know if visiting Chinese are stopping at and asking about the use of the yin-yang symbol at the Billings Depot. The symbol is used because it was the symbol of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Billings is named after Fredrick Billings, who was Northern Pacific's president 1873-1881. |
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We do know that some of the region's Chinese restaurants are doing a booming business serving hungry tourists, including many arriving on Chinese tour buses.
Cody, Wyoming
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Cody, Wyoming（pop. 9,520 in 2010）has at least three Chinese restaurants. This one, Chinatown（in English, Golden Kitchen 金厨 in Chinese）was quite busy a bit later in the day when tour buses started to pull in. It has a great location just opposite the city park.（Photo taken by Clayton Dube） |
Red Lodge, Montana
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China Garden is a restaurant in Red Lodge, Montana（pop. 2,125 in 2010）. As you travel this summer.（（Photo taken by Clayton Dube） |
Chinese food can be found nearly everywhere. It's easily China's most successful export. Please send us photos you take of Chinese restaurants on your travels（outside of China, Hong Kong/Macau, and Taiwan）. Include your name, the location of the restaurant and when you visited. We'll compile these on our website and will be happy to credit you. Send your photos to uschina@usc.edu.
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Best wishes,
The USC U.S.-China Institute
-- a program of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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The China Card：Politics vs. Policy |
Given the importance and complexity of U.S.-China relations, it is not surprising that American policy toward China has become a larger political issue. On Thursday, September 29, we invite you to join us for our daylong conference on the role of China in American politics and whether or not policies toward China have changed or should change. Speakers will include prominent policymakers, public intellectuals, and scholars. They will examine the positions and actions of interest groups, the concerns and impact of allies, and the role of China and topic specialists. We will ask about perceptions of China and the U.S.-China relationship and the realities of that relationship.
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Topics will include:
- economic ties, including trade, investment, market access, and participation in international economic institutions
- environmental worries, including technology, targets, and monitoring
- security challenges, including regional tensions, weapons proliferation, and alliances
- politics and law, including how we talk about and to each other about civil liberties and legal procedures
- the roles of businesses, business groups, civic organizations, research institutions, and varying levels of government in U.S.-China politics and the making of policies
This conference celebrates the tenth anniversary of the creation of the USC U.S.-China Institute by USC President C.L. "Max" Nikias. Our events frequently sell out, so please register early to save money and to guarantee yourself a place at what is sure to be a compelling discussion.
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WHEN
Thursday, September 29, 2016
WHERE
Radisson Hotel at USC
3540 S Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
COST
General
$75 from now to 8/15
$100 from 8/16 to 9/15
$150 from 9/16 to 9/28
Students
$25 from now to 9/15
$35 from 9/16 to 9/28
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Events
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Forty-five years ago today, President Richard Nixon shook the world when he went into the NBC studios in Burbank, California to announce that he was going to China. At the same time, Premier Zhou Enlai announced that Nixon had accepted China's invitation to visit. Nixon ended his announcement by saying:
"I have taken this action because of my profound conviction that all nations will gain from a reduction of tensions and a better relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
"It is in this spirit that I will undertake what I deeply hope will become a journey for peace, not just for our generation but for future generations on this earth we share together."
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（L）Nixon's first draft of his announcement.（Below）Nixon, Kissinger, and Haldeman arrive at Burbank（Nixon Library）.
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Famed handshake, Nixon and Zhou, Feb. 1972 |
Amb. Liu Jian speaking at the Consulate General of the PRC. July 14, 2016 The July 15, 1971 announcement was celebrated last night in Los Angeles at the Consulate General of the PRC. Ambassador Liu Jian, the consul general and former ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and William Baribault, president of the Nixon Foundation, spoke of the importance of Nixon's journey and the need for the peoples of the two countries to continue to search for common ground. Edward Nixon, the president's youngest brother, spoke of his brother as a kind of teacher, trying to guide others to new ideas.
The Nixon Foundation and Library currently has an exhibition at South Coast Plaza celebrating not just the historic trip, but the many cultural exchanges it helped launch. A wide variety of mostly Southern California institutions including museums and orchestras are featuring China exhibitions and performances through next year. On October 14, the "New" Nixon Library and Museum opens in Yorba Linda.
Amb. Liu's remarks included one thing not known by most Angelenos, even
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H.R. "Bob" Haldeman
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those of us who follow Chinese affairs and who have visited the home of the consul general.
The house was once owned by H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, who became Nixon's chief of staff. In Los Angeles he worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency.
In 1994, a year after his father's death, Haldeman's son Peter wrote the essay "Growing Up a Haldeman," which includes this description of what is now the consul general's residence.
"More often than not, we lived in Hancock Park, a lush enclave near downtown regarded by its inhabitants as a "less flashy" alternative to the West Side. The house I remember most vividly was a shingled Colonial with backyard features that I considered providential：a 60-foot pool, an avocado tree big enough to spend the night in and a badminton court that was better for roller-skating."
Haldeman's crucial role in the administration, including the trip to China, comes through in observations made by Dwight Chapin in the Assignment:China episode and in the observations of Larry Higby, his assistant who spoke in 2010 at a USCI/Nixon Foundation symposium on "The Inside Story of Richard Nixon's 1972 Journey to China"（web | YouTube）.
Haldeman kept a detailed diary during his White House service. In 2015, C-SPAN Radio broadcast Haldeman dictating his China entries. Click here to hear them. During the first entry, Haldeman notes that Secretary of State William Rogers wouldn't be included in the meetings with China's leaders and that in their meetings, Rogers and Michael Green would play "bad cop" to Nixon's "good cop" in discussions regarding Taiwan. Later entries include his observations on what they wanted and got in press coverage and their genuine worries that it was possible the two sides could not settle on a joint communique. Haldeman also took his 8mm film camera along on the trip. Some of his film was included in a film made by the Nixon Library.
Forty-five years ago Nixon and Zhou announced that after two hostile decades that began with US support for the Communist Party's enemy and soon included direct engagement on Korean battlefields, the two sides would meet at the highest level. It was a bold step born out of shared fears that would ultimately yield today's remarkable interconnectedness.
July 17, 2016 - 6:30pm
Los Angeles, California
Ms. Sara Velas, President of the International Panorama Council will present a lecture as an overview of 20th & 21st century panoramas in Asia, with a focus on the panoramas of China. Enjoy the gardens and exhibits of the Velaslavasay Panorama before and after this lecture. Ambient Folk & Classical Chinese music will be performed in the garden after the presentation by musician Susien Cheng.
Rhapsody in Blue with Yuja Wang and Dudamel
July 21, 2016 - 8:00pm
Los Angeles, California
Pure summer magic：the astonishing Yuja Wang plays jazzy classics by Ravel and Gershwin conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel.
August 4, 2016 - 3:00pm
Berkeley, California
Professor Bixiao He presents a talk on Chinese modern journalism and interpreting the particular role of Chinese modern journalism played in the process of the China's transition from an empire to party state. This study puts forward a parallel concept of "national press" and "urban press" to examine the interaction between the two different kinds of modernity-pursuing in the specific spatial-temporal historical context.
Los Angeles, California
The Getty Center hosts the Los Angeles premiere of Dan Duyu's first screen adaptation of "Journey to the West" with live musical accompaniment.
August 27, 2016 - 10:30am
San Francisco, California
This talk will explore the role of Emperors, Empresses, and other imperial men and women of the Chinese courts in the sponsorship, design, and fashioning of paintings, from the 11th through the 18th centuries.
August 28, 2016 - 4:00pm
Los Angeles, California
The Getty Center will provide an overview of the wide spectrum of activities that were undertaken, including scientific research into causes of deterioration of walls paintings.
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Oberlin, Ohio
Allen Memorial Art Museum presents an exhibition connecting past and present art from China, Japan, Korea, the U.S., and Canada.
Washington, District of Columbia
The Energy and National Security Program and the Freeman Chair in China Studies is pleased to host Kevin Gallagher and Bo Kong to discuss the role of Chinese state financing in global energy development and to present findings from two of their recently published studies from the Global Economic Governance Initiative at Boston University.
New York, New York
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt M. Campbell, one of the chief architects of the pivot（also known as the rebalance）, states in his new book, The Pivot：The Future of American Statecraft in Asia, that one of the central tenets of the Obama Administration's pivot was building relationships with emerging Asian powers.
Houston, Texas
"The Way of the Dragon" stars Lee as Tang Lung, a martial arts expert recruited to protect his relatives' Chinese restaurant from gangsters in Rome. The film broke Hong Kong box office records, outperforming The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, Lee's earlier cinematic successes.
Washington, District of Columbia
Kara Wai gives a powerful performance in the world premiere of Andy Lo's directorial debut. In her role as a woman suffering from Alzheimer's, she takes under her wing an aimless young man（Chan）who has come to Hong Kong to look for the father who abandoned him.
Washington, District of Columbia
Kara Wai won her first Hong Kong Film Award for her effervescent performance in this delightful kung fu comedy. She plays a young student who marries her dying teacher to keep his inheritance away from his untrustworthy relatives.
Houston, Texas
Asia Society Texas Center presents a mid-summer family film screening of one of the earliest U.S.-created animated features with a focus on China.
New York, New York
The film will be followed by a Q&A with actors Kara Wai and Carlos Chan.
New York, New York
Danielle Chang, founder of LUCKYRICE, brings night markets, grand feasts, and dumpling-making sessions to America's biggest cities.
New York, New York
In this Tibetan Buddhist art workshop you will learn how to draw the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion according to the Tibetan thangka tradition. Avalokiteshvara（"One who hears the cries of the world"）is the Bodhisattva of Compassion and protector of Tibet. He is the Buddha of the famous mantra om mani padme hum, and the Dalai Lama is considered to be the earthly incarnation of Avalokiteshvara.
July 23, 2016 - 7:00pm
Houston, Texas
Continuing its summer film series, Asia Society Texas Center presents the first title in the Rush Hour franchise, which spawned three films and a recent television series. Global icon Jackie Chan stars as Detective Inspector Lee, who is tracking down a Chinese crime syndicate in Los Angeles after Hong Kong's transfer from British rule. Chris Tucker plays an LA police officer, assigned to divert Lee from an FBI investigation into the kidnapping of the local Chinese Consul's daughter.
July 24, 2016 - 2:00pm
Washington, District of Columbia
See the micro-budget sci-fi omnibus that beat Star Wars：The Force Awakens at the Hong Kong box office. Chinese authorities considered Ten Years so dangerous that they banned it from theaters and even blacked out broadcast of the Hong Kong Film Awards simply because it was nominated. Made for the equivalent of about $70,000, this collection of five short films, each by a different director, speculates darkly on what Hong Kong will look like in 2025.
July 25, 2016 - 8:30am
Seattle, Washington
China's Past：New Strategies for Teaching the Sources of Chinese Civilization will use primary sources, rich text, and images to build an understanding of selected topics in early Chinese history and civilization. The week will focus on adapting content and materials to one's own classroom in grades 3-8.
July 29, 2016 - 7:00pm
Houston, Texas
Detective Inspector Lee and Detective Carter return in the second installment of the Rush Hour franchise, this time both venturing to Lee's home of Hong Kong. Chinese cinematic superstar Zhang Ziyi joins the star-studded cast, along with Don Cheadle and Roselyn Sánchez.
July 30, 2016 - 2:00pm
Washington, District of Columbia
Based on Design for Living, a popular stage play by Sylvia Chang（who stars in the movie alongside the eternally suave Chow Yun-fat）, Office depicts the ups and downs-romantic and financial-of a financial firm's staff during 2008's global economic turmoil.
July 31, 2016 - 2:00pm
Washington, District of Columbia
In the third installment of this popular franchise, Donnie Yen reprises his role as the real-life kung fu master best known for having trained a young Bruce Lee. In this edition, which was nominated for eight Hong Kong Film Awards, Ip is settling into life as a family man, but he's soon called to protect Hong Kong from a ruthless American businessman（with surprisingly strong boxing skills）who is trying to make a land grab.
August 6, 2016 - 1:00pm
Washington, District of Columbia
The Blade is Tsui Hark's masterful tribute to the martial arts films of his youth. A reimagining of director Chang Cheh's 1967 wuxia landmark The One-Armed Swordsman, this phantasmagoric action film moves like an out-of-control freight train.
August 6, 2016 - 3:30pm
Washington, District of Columbia
Zhang Yimou and Gong Li-then China's cinematic power couple-star as an imperial soldier and the woman who brings him back to life after he's spent centuries encased in clay in the emperor's tomb.
August 7, 2016 - 2:00pm
Washington, District of Columbia
The first African American to be inducted into the Hong Kong Stuntman's Association, Bobby Samuels worked with some of Hong Kong's biggest movie stars during his career there in the 1990s.
August 18, 2016 - 12:00pm
Houston, Texas
Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 18-21 in Asia Society Texas Center's Louisa Stude Sarofim Gallery. During this ritual, millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place in order to purify and heal the environment and its inhabitants.
August 20, 2016 - 7:00pm
Houston, Texas
Robed in magnificent costumes and playing traditional Tibetan instruments, the Drepung Loseling monks will perform ancient temple music and dance intended to kindle world healing.
August 21, 2016 - 4:30pm
Washington, District of Columbia
Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles（Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries）accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk down memory lane as Jia revisits his hometown and other locations from his ever-growing body of work.
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