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Max Fisher, "Gangnam Style," Washington Post, Oct. 18, 2012. How and why K-pop's visual style has triumphed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/10/18/visual-music-how-gangnam-style-exploited-k-pops-secret-strength-and-overcame-its-biggest-weakness/

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Eunjee asks to know more about millennials -- we have videos on this: http://china.usc.edu/video-millennialminds
Please watch and let us know what you think.

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Cindy raises great points. The pressure on all people, but especially women to get married within the "use by" date, is large. Partly parents push it because their own friends and family make a bigger deal out of it over time. But people in China and in America are getting married later and some elect to never pair up. Some elders complain that millennials are too picky or that this shows their immaturity. Others recognize that with rising divorce rates in China and high divorce rates in the US, perhaps pushing folks into early marriage isn't such a good idea.

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Responding to Robert -
The rural collective is largely dead. In some places, collectives still oversee some economic production, but beginning in the late 1970s, land has been assigned to households and most rural enterprises have been contracted to private managers. A lot has been written on this, but let me recommend three books:

the Potters, 1990, China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/anthropology/social-and-cultural-anthropology/chinas-peasants-anthropology-revolution

Friedman, Seldon, et al, 1993, Chinese Village, Socialist State http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300054286

-- 2007, Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9780300125955

Agriculture in the richer eastern part of China is generally done by older people and women caring for children. And in many villages near cities, it is now done by companies from poorer areas which use farmers from those areas. Most older people are still cared for at home, but nursing homes are increasing in China. When I lived in rural China in 1990-92, these were mainly caring for a handful of elderly women whose children had moved away or who did not have children. But now, so many people have migrated that this is becoming a significant industry.
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We screened this film years ago with the director, Micha Peled.

The link above is to a low resolution version. Higher resolution versions are available, including with Spanish subtitles. The dvd, of course, is best. This is an excellent film, made in 2005. Pay particular attention to the negotiations between the foreign buyer and the factory head.

Here is the PBS website for the film: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/film.html

Another resource for those interested in what cheap products "cost" is The China Price by Alexandra Harney. Here she speaks at Michigan about her work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mk1OEuOYxY. Another film that is useful in looking at the links between what we buy and how that stuff gets made is Xmas without China by a couple of USC grads: http://www.xmaswithoutchina.com/. Some of the human cost of the migration that powered China's economic rise is shown in Last Train Home (another film we screened at USC with the director): http://www.pbs.org/pov/lasttrainhome/

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The Taiwanese government has exhibitions at thEirik El Monte culture office:
http://www.ocac.gov.tw/OCAC/SubSites/Home.aspx?site=1756a8a3-884e-45eb-bd26-47cdb8b9d197

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I've only visited Vietnam once, in 2004. I subsequently put together the attached presentation for my UCLA students. The visit included a trip to the Caodai home temple. Janet's presentation is far more detailed and recent. She's an expert. Still, perhaps you'll find this more general look of use. The last several slides were from the Caodai visit.
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One place to begin is Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_China

The accounting firm PwC has this guide to taxation in China: http://www.pwccn.com/webmedia/doc/635671281131435071_cn_tax_facts_figures_2015.pdf

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I've had to compress the presentation and divide it up in order to share it via the forum. Sorry about that.

You are free to use the presentation for your own reference and with your students. Please DO NOT otherwise share or distribute the presentation. This is because I did not seek or receive permission to use some of the copyrighted photos that are included. It's fine to use the presentation in your classroom, but please do not post it to the net or otherwise share the presentation. Thank you.
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Some who were interested in the Paul Solt book on the invention and spread of instant ramen may wish to read this article he wrote on how perceptions of it changed in a rising Japan:
http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/GeorgeSolt-InstantRamen.pdf

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Quick reply to Yan. Japanese investment in LA is no. 1, but in the US as a whole the UK is the top cumulative investor.

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Andrew Higgins writes of Chinese in Vladivostok, many of them thinking that the city and region were rightfully Chinese. See the attached article or read it at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/world/asia/vladivostok-china-haishenwai-tourists.html?emc=edit_ae_20160724&nl=todaysheadlines-asia&nlid=53391876&_r=0

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Japanese state broadcaster NHK has produced stories on Japanese aid and Japanese investment and trade with Africa. This one includes comments about Chinese agricultural assistance. The Japanese trade promotion agency, JETRO, has produced a video on Japan/Africa business.

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Ariang is a Korean network funded by the Korean International Broadcasting Foundation. South Korean government support makes it possible. Click here to see some videos on Koreans in Africa.

You may be particularly interested in this one on Koreans in Uganda. It was released last month.

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Hi Everyone - I'm Clayton Dube and I'm looking forward to getting to know each of you a bit over the course of our week together. I work with Catherine at the USC US-China Institute. I lived in China for a couple of stretches totaling five years. In between I taught in San Diego secondary schools. Afterwards, I taught at Berea College in Kentucky before coming back to California. I worked at UCLA for nine years and just got a letter from the USC president saying "thanks for your ten years here." Hopefully that doesn't mean I'm being dismissed. I love travel, photography, and reading.

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