China Week - Keynotes

Keynote Addresses

Monday, October 5, 2009                

7:00 - 8:30 pm

Dr. Susan Shirk
Director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California
Topic: China's Rise to Power and the Impact on Sino-American Relations and World Politics
Biography: http://irps.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/susan-shirk.htm 

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

7:00 - 8:30 pm  

Dr. Walter Hixson
Distinguished Fulbright lecturer at the China Foreign Affairs University, Distinguished professor of history at The University of Akron, and President of Akron AAUP
Topic: Walls, Haze, Hope and Fear: Contemporary China and Sino-American Relations Today
Website: http://www3@uakron.edu/history/hixson

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

7:00 - 8:30 pm

 

Dr. Annping Chin
Yale University
Topic: Discovering Confucius through the Analects.
The Analects is the most reliable source on the life and teachings of Confucius. But the book is a collection of incomplete records with no logical organization. This lecture will focus on reading the Analects to find the humanity in Confucius and the key to his teachings.
Biography: http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/chin.html  

Thursday, October 8, 2009

 7:00 - 8:30 pm  




Shawn Chen
President and Chairman, Sias University
Topic:  Entrepreneurship with China and the United States
Website:    http://www.sias.edu.cn/en/

* all keynote addresses will take place from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre

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