Meeting of Minds
Delegation sent to Chinese Advanced Forum on Visual Arts
A USC delegation, whose members included Shaoyi Sun, lecturer of Chinese literature and film, and four Ph.D. students of the School of Cinema-Television, participated in the Second Chinese Advanced Forum on Visual Arts held at Shanghai’s Fudan University last fall. Headed by Stanley Rosen, professor of political science, the group was sponsored by USC’s East Asian Studies Center. Rosen delivered a one-hour keynote speech titled “Hollywood Global Strategy and Responses and Countermeasures of Domestic Film Markets in Asia” on the first day of the forum. He also chaired the second-day USC panel “Interrogating Transnationality: Image Traveling and Re-Orientation in a Transforming Market.”
The Chinese Advanced Forum on Visual Arts is an annual event attended by top-level university professors and artists of film, television and new media across the nation. With China’s entry to the World Trade Organization, the organizing committee of this year’s forum specifically encouraged overseas involvement. The international look of the forum was enhanced not only by the USC delegation, but also by the co-sponsorship from Germany’s Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Shanghai Project Office. This enabled the forum to bring several German scholars and industry leaders to Shanghai, including Moritz de Hadeln, former chair of the Berlin International Film Festival and current chair of the Venice International Film Festival.
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