UCLA's U.S.-China Media Brief Launches Website Featuring Experts, In-depth Policy Analysis, and Other Expanded Features

August 7, 2008

MEDIA CONTACT: Letisia Marquez
lmarquez@support.ucla.edu
(310) 206-3986

Profs. Russell Leong, Don T. Nakanishi
uschinainfo@aasc.ucla.edu
(310) 825-2974 Fax (310) 206-9844

UCLA's U.S.-China Media Website Features "101+ Things Every American Should Know about U.S.-China Relations"

LOS ANGELES, August 7, 2008 - On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, UCLA's Asian American Studies Center today announced a listing of experts and other features than can be found at U.S./China Media Brief www.uschinamediabrief.com. The service is offered as an educational service to journalists, educators, and the public-at-large.

Here's what the one-stop Media Brief online resource offers:

• 101 pages of written content, statistics, and expert viewpoints, intended to provide mainstream U.S. media with quick access to background information on U.S.-China relations and issues. Contains 101+ things every American needs to know about U.S.-China Relations.
• Experts Exchange that gathers leading national and international experts in law, political theory, media, economics and trade, U.S.-China relations, human rights issues, global politics, environmental issues, literature and culture, and more in relation to balancing and broadening the debate on U.S.-China relations.
• Beijing Olympics 12-page special print edition available for downloading in PDF form.
• Here's what the New York Times Olympics blog, said about the U.S./China Media brief: "a handy guide for anyone to peruse, available as a pdf or in greater depth at www.uschinamediabrief.com. Perhaps most useful is the brief's concise explanation of the Sino-American argument over human rights"
• Economy, Trade, Environment, Human and Legal Rights, presented and explained in a succinct balanced format.
• U.S.-China Relations Timeline that covers 200 years of U.S.-China relations from 1784 to 2008, and includes a list of 50 events in which China, the U.S., and Chinese Americans are interlinked culturally, politically, and economically.
• China's eco-cities, the United Nations Human Rights Covenants, and a behind-the-scenes look at the real trade balance between the U.S. and China.
• "Hot button" issues: media and internet, product safety, labor and trade.
• Eight Things to Know about the Chinese Internet.

The Media Brief was developed, researched, written, and edited as an educational service for the U.S. media by a team at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center including: Professor Don T. Nakanishi, director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center); Ms. Sharon Owyang, principal writer and researcher (Harvard-trained writer and Emmy-nominated associate producer of the acclaimed Bill Moyer's "Chinese in America" series for PBS); and Adjunct Professor Russell C. Leong, editor of the UCLA Amerasia Journal (award-winning writer). Additionally, a team of experts and leaders in U.S.-China relations, education, research, and politics also contributed to the Media Brief.

For contacts, and interviews with experts and writers:
E-MAIL: uschinainfo@aasc.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-2974
Fax: (310)206-9844
Web: www.uschinamediabrief.com

Contact: Prof. Russell C. Leong or Prof. Don T. Nakanishi