MCLC: UCLA event on Tiananmen

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: chaohua wang <sm.ca.wangchaohua at gmail.com>
Subject: UCLA even on Tiananmen
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UCLA event on Tiananmen (5/13/14)
Tuesday, May 13, 2-5 pm

Documentary screening: Assignment China: Tiananmen Square,
and Panel Discussion: “25 Years since Tiananmen: Then and Now”

 
Twenty-five years ago, a large scale mass protest erupted at the center of
China’s political symbolism, Tiananmen Square in Beijing. From mid April
to early June, the protest lasted for nearly two months and spread to over
a hundred cities across the country. Millions of people from all walks of
the society took part in, before the government brought in the People’s
Liberation Army (PLA) to suppress it on June 3-4.

 
The protest and its bloody crackdown became a defining moment not only in
contemporary China, but also in world media history. It was the first time
when a sizeable group of Western journalists arrived in Beijing. They were
assigned there originally to cover the first leadership meeting in thirty
years between the world’s two biggest Communist Parties, the Soviet and
the Chinese. They were instead taken over by the protests, broadcasting
live from the Square constantly. Their work that spring effected public
perceptions and state policies towards China and her government in many
countries around the world.

 
Assignment China is a documentary series produced by USC’s US-China
Institute, examining the function/contribution of media and journalism in
the two countries unfolding relationship. This latest episode is wrote and
narrated by the institute’s senior fellow Mike Chinoy, CNN’s Beijing
bureau chief 1987-95.

 
People interviewed in the film include: Dan Southerland of the Washington
Post, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn of the New York Times, John
Pomfret, Terril Jones and Jeff Widerner of the AP, Al Pessin of VOA, Dan
Rather, John Sheahan and Richard Roth of CBS News, Bernard Shaw, Alec
Miran, Johnathan Schaer and Mike Chinoy from CNN, Dorinda Elliot of
Newsweek, and many other journalists. Interviews to the former U.S.
Secretary of State James Baker, former U.S. ambassadors to China Winston
Lord and James Lilley, Tiananmen student leader Wang Dan and other
non-journalists are also featured.

 
Panel Discussion “25 Years Since Tiananmen: Then and Now”
 
with 
Dr. Clayton Dube
Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Mr. Terril Jones
Dr. Wang Chaohua
 
Followed by a Q&A session.

 
About the Panelists:

Clayton Dube is Director at the U.S.-China Institute, University of
Southern California. He currently heads a USCI team producing the six-part
Assignment: China <http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=2526>
documentary series on American media coverage of China since the 1940s.
Dube earned his Ph.D. in China studies from UCLA and worked at UCLA’s Asia
Institute before joining USC eight years ago. He has worked on several
projects with the U.S. Department of Education and won teaching awards at
three universities. He is the producer of Assignment China: Tiananmen
Square.

Jeffrey N Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine.
He specializes in China studies with a broad range of interest in issues
concerning student protest, gender relation, globalization, image
presentation, and so forth. His works include Student Protests in
Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford, 1991) and China
in the 21st Century: What everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press,
2010, updated edition 2013, with contributions by UCI graduate student
Maura Cunningham)He also writes continuously for the general public. He is
Editor of Journal of Asian Studies, published by the Association for Asian
Studies, and a co-editor of the Asian Section of Los Angeles Review of
Books.

 
Wang Chaohua was a graduate student and a participant of the 1989
student-led protest in Beijing. She became an exile based in Los Angeles
after the military crackdown 25 years ago. She then enrolled in Chinese
studies program at UCLA, earning her MA and Ph.D degrees in modern Chinese
culture and literature. She is now an independent scholar and a visiting
lecturer in UCLA's Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. She edited
a collection of translated texts by leading Chinese intellectuals,
published with her own introduction under the title One China, Many Paths
(Verso, 2003). The book won a Choice's Best Academic Title recognition.
She has published in both English and Chinese essays on contemporary
Chinese intellectual life and political analyses.

 
Terril Jones is a longtime foreign and business correspondent. He covered
Japan, France, north Africa and the United Nations for 15 years with The
Associated Press, was a founding editor of Forbes Global magazine, was the
Detroit-based automotive correspondent for Forbes and the Los Angeles
Times, and was a Silicon Valley correspondent for the L.A. Times. In
September he completed a three-year assignment in Beijing with Reuters
covering Chinese businesses, domestic politics and foreign policy. He
spent his 8th grade year at a Chinese school in Taiwan, and had numerous
extended reporting assignments in China in the 1980s. He studied Chinese
leadership studies at the University of Michigan for a year as a
Knight-Wallace Fellow, and digital media for six months at Ohio State
University as a Kiplinger Fellow. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese,
Japanese and French.