Leading Experts Consider China's Future Role
When:
Thursday, February 7th, 2002
Where:
TIAA-CREF Building
730 Third Avenue
Wharton Auditorium, 17th Floor
New York, NY
In the past year alone, U.S. officials have referred to China as a
strategic competitor, a global and regional economic power, and an
anti-terrorism partner. How does China view its own role in Asia and the world?
Is there a dominant rationale emerging for Chinese economic and strategic
policy, or will there continue to be a tense struggle between contradictory
impulses? And how will China's policies affect the U.S-China relationship? On
February 7th, four distinguished Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences will examine the future of China in the context of its modern
history.
Participants:
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History & Political
Science, Harvard University Roderick MacFarquhar is also chair of Harvard
University's Department of Government and the former Director of the John King
Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. His publications include: The Hundred
Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals; Sino-American Relations,
1949-1971; The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao; the final two
volumes of the Cambridge History of China; The Politics of China, 1949-
1989; and a trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. He
is the founding editor of The China Quarterly and a former member of the
British Parliament.
Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History, Yale
University Professor Spence teaches Chinese history from 1600 to the present,
including Western images of China since the medieval period. His books include: The
Death of Woman Wang; The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci; The
Question of Hu; God's Chinese Son; and The Search for Modern
China.
Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University
School of Law Professor Cohen teaches in the areas of Chinese law and society,
international business transactions with China and East Asia, and international
law. His publications include: Investment Law and Practice in Vietnam; Contract
Law of the People's Republic of China; People's China and International
Law; and The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China,
1949-63: An Introduction.
Tu Weiming, Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and
of Confucian Studies, Harvard University Professor Tu is the Director of the
Harvard-Yenching Institute. Among his many publications are: The Humanities and
the Public Intellectual; Confucianism and Human Rights; and Confucian
Spirituality. He is a member of Harvard's Committee on the Study of
Religion and the chair of the Acadamia Sinica's advisory committee for the
Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy. He is a member of the Group of
Eminent Persons for the Dialogue Among Civilizations appointed by the
Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is currently interested in
interpreting Confucian ethics as a spiritual resource for the global community.
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