Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a discussion on newly published book, The Dispute Over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands：How Media Narratives Shape Public Opinion and Challenge the Global Order. Contributors Tom Hollihan, Patricia Riley, and Zhan Zhang will share their research and to discuss responses to their work.
11/5/2014 - Xiao Lin（肖林）, Shanghai Free Trade Zone： The First Year and Beyond
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, ASC G34
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Time： 4:00 - 5:30PM
In 2013, the Shanghai government announced the establishment of a "pilot free trade zone"（自由贸易试验区）, a 29 square km area. The announced aims for the zone include opening up new sectors for investment and trade, loosening currency controls to facilitate internationalization of the yuan, and advancing China's global competitiveness. Xiao Lin, one of the architects of the zone, will discuss the progress made over the first year and prospects for the future.
Xiao Lin is director of the Shanghai Development Research Center, a think tank serving the Shanghai municipal government. He earned his doctorate at Shanghai Jiaotong University and is an adjunct professor there and at several other universities. He heads the Shanghai Academy of Development and Reform. Prior to joining government service, Dr. Xiao worked in the private sector. Since joining the government, he's primarily worked in Shanghai, but also served the State Council's Research Office. Dr. Xiao's principal research areas are finance and asset managment and macroeconomic analysis and policy design. He is among the principal architects of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and is part of the team conducting the first year evaluation of the zone.
10/30/2014 - Media Narratives and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, Room TBA
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Time：4:00 - 5:30PM
Cost：Free, please e-mail uschina@usc.edu to RSVP.
"Let me reiterate that our treaty commitment to Japan's security is absolute, and Article 5 covers all territories under Japan's administration, including the Senkaku Islands."
Pres. Barack Obama, Tokyo, April 24, 2014
Most Americans have never heard of these small uninhabited islands, but after World War II the U.S. used them for bombing practice. Japan has administered them since 1972, but the Chinese and Japanese governments both consider them inseparable parts of their nations. The U.S. says that it takes no position on which nation the islands belong to, but says that resolution of the dispute must be done through peaceful means.
Long a point of contention between the two countries, the issue heated up and garnered global attention in 2012 when China protested the Japanese government's nationalization of the islands. Large protests broke out, sometimes including violence, organizations were mobilized, and there were confrontations at sea. China established a new air defense identification zone including the islands. Depictions of the islands and the dispute in traditional and new media in China, Japan, and the U.S. have done much to shape public opinion and to influence how political leaders discuss the issue. A newly published book, The Dispute Over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands：How Media Narratives Shape Public Opinion and Challenge the Global Order （Palgrave Macmillan）details this. Three contributors to the volume will join us to share their research and to discuss responses to their work.
Tom Hollihan is professor of communication at USC Annenberg and chairs the USCI executive committee. He edited the book and wrote the introduction and a chapter on the depiction of the dispute in the U.S. media. Zhan Zhang 张展 is a researcher and project coordinator at China Media Observatory at the Università della Svizzera italiana. She contributed a chapter on how Chinese traditional media discuss the issue. Patricia Riley is associate professor of communication and directs the Global Communication masters degree program at USC Annenberg. She looks at what the controversy shows about the conduct of public diplomacy in a new global media environment. Hollihan and Riley recently completed a book tour through Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo and will also discuss responses to their arguments.
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
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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.
Please
join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a discussion with Xiao Lin, director of
the Shanghai Development Research Center, on the progress of the "pilot free
trade zone" established in Shanghai last year.
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