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The Contemporary Importance of Asian American History: Bridging Past and Present

Saturday, June 26, 2021 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm Location: ZoomCost: Free Register for this event Presenter: Dr. Phillip Hutchison, Department of Asian American Studies, CSUN A Short Introduction: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”  I would like to share moments in Asian American history that help us understand the roots of the forever foreigner and model minority… Continue reading The Contemporary Importance of Asian American History: Bridging Past and Present

Lunar New Year Celebration

On February 15, 2025, the China Institute at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), in collaboration with the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSUN-CSSA), hosted its annual Spring Festival Gala at the Northridge Center to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The event welcomed nearly 150 attendees, including faculty, students, and community members, and featured remarks from… Continue reading Lunar New Year Celebration

CSUN Lunar New Year 2026

Grand Salon | University Student Union 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, United States

On February 21, the China Institute at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) presented a vibrant Lunar New Year celebration. The event brought together Vice President and Provost Meera Komarraju; Wei Huang, Education Counselor from the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles; Kent Baxter, Interim Dean of the College of Humanities; Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer and CSUN graduate… Continue reading CSUN Lunar New Year 2026

Student Exchange Program 2025 Presentations

Grand Salon | University Student Union 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, United States

https://youtu.be/JlrYU2mvR0w https://youtu.be/i0iuhq-W90I   Dr. Cao and her students described the week-long immersive program in Wenzhou as both academically enriching and culturally significant. With guided tours of historic sites, bilingual lectures, and hands-on cultural activities—including an introduction to the city’s unique hair-embroidery tradition—the experience broadened students’ cross-cultural understanding and deepened their global awareness. It also helped… Continue reading Student Exchange Program 2025 Presentations

A Lifetime Opportunity!

(By Areeya Lena Tivasuradej, China Council Scholarship Recipient) Chengdu is indeed a layback city as they claim. One thing that grasped my heart was the abundance of tea houses or tea gardens. Walking through a tea house, you can hear the locals chatting loudly in thick Sichuan dialect interrupted occasionally by the sound of crashing… Continue reading A Lifetime Opportunity!

by Areeya Lena Tivasuradej, China Council Scholarship Recipient

Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication Delegation of Three Visits China

This past summer, Dr. Maureen Rubin, the associate dean of the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication (MCCAMC), led Dr. Lynette Henderson and Dr. Meiqin Wang, two Art Department faculty, on a delegation visit to China designed to develop collaboration between CSUN and universities in Shanghai and Wuhan. Wang and Henderson were also… Continue reading Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication Delegation of Three Visits China

This past summer, Dr. Maureen Rubin, the associate dean of the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication (MCCAMC), led Dr. Lynette Henderson and Dr. Meiqin Wang, two Art Department faculty, on a delegation visit to China designed to develop collaboration between CSUN and universities in Shanghai and Wuhan. Wang and Henderson were also on a separate mission to research art education in China, partially supported by a faculty development grant from the China Institute. The three were in China from June 8th to June 22nd 2012 and visited Shanghai Normal University (SHNU), Shanghai Sanda University (SSU), Wuhan University (WU), and Central China Normal University (CCNU). They met with officers from International Offices, vice presidents, deans, chairs, and faculty members from relevant departments from these universities. At each university, Dr. Rubin introduced academic programs of MCCAMC and participated in discussions about the possibility of future collaborative educational programs. On the last day of the visit to CCNU, Dr. Rubin drafted and presented a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to a working meeting scheduled by the International Office of CCNU and participated in by four deans or representatives from CCNU and Wuhan University and all three CSUN delegation members. The MOU aimed to enhance mutual understanding and promote collaboration between CSUN and Chinese faculty and students. It was verbally approved and later developed as the formal agreement, signed on August 15, by CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison and Central China Normal University President Zongkai Yang, who led his delegation’s visit to CSUN. In Spring 2013, both SSU in Shanghai and CCNU in Wuhan plan to send visiting scholars to CSUN’s Art Department to study and hold further conversations about student and faculty exchange programs and collaborative research possibilities between universities. While visiting these universities in Shanghai and Wuhan, the three CSUN members gave lectures to faculty and students regarding art education and journalism in the United States, focusing on CSUN’s distinctive programs. They also met and enjoyed intellectual exchanges with faculty who are researching journalism and art education. The three also visited three elementary schools in Shanghai where they met with art teachers observed art classes. The CSUN visitors were extremely impressed by these schools’ investments in art education. The visit was a successful, productive, and memorable one and by all accounts, it should lead to many mutually beneficial programs and projects in the near future. Picture 1
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