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JACKSON/HO CHINA-EAST ASIA FORUM -The DENVER CHINA FORUM was renamed to the JACKSON/HO CHINA-EAST ASIA FORUM funded by the William Sharpless Jackson, Jr. Endowment in the Fall of 2003.

Pictured Right: William Sharpless Jackson, Jr (center) is pictured with forum speakers Rear Admiral Yang Yi (left) and Zi Zhongyun (2nd from right), Endowment Trustee Diana Yunn Ho Lee (2nd from left) and Forum Curator, CCUSC's Sam Zhao(right).

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SPRING QUARTER 2008

Friday, May 16, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - Kevin O'Brien presented Unrest in Rural China: A Ticking Time Bomb? Dr. O'Brien currently is the Alann P. Bedford Chair of Political Science and Chair, Center for Chinese Studies at the department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Dr. O'Brien received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1987. Professor O'Brien's research focuses on Chinese politics in the reform era. His most recent work centers on theories of popular contention, particularly the origins, dynamics and outcomes of "rightful resistance" in rural China. A book, with his long-time collaborator, Lianjiang Li, was published by Cambridge University Press in early 2006. It is called Rightful Resistance in Rural China , which his presentation is based upon.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - David Lampton presented his new book The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money & Mind. Dr. Lampton is Director of Chinese Studies at The Nixon Center and is George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before joining SAIS and The Nixon Center, he was president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City. The National Committee is the nation's oldest non-profit, educational organization devoted to enhancing mutual understanding among the peoples of the United States and China's mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Friday, May 2, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - Lijia Zhang presented her book “Socialism Is Great!” A Worker's Memoir of the New China. Ms. Zhang was born and raised in Nanjing, China. At age of 16, she was pulled out of school and began her decade-long job at a rocket factory, where she taught herself English. In 1990, Lijia went to England where she pursued her childhood dream of studying journalism. Her features have appeared in many international publications. Her memoir Socialism is Great has just been published by Atlas Books in New York. She is a regular speaker on the BBC, Channel 4 and National Public Radio.
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Friday, April 11, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - Pema Wangyal presented "Tibetan Culture and History: Eyewitness of an exiled Tibetan Scholar on the current Tibetan unrest". Pema Wangyal is a Tibetan native and a Research Analyst of International Campaign for Tibet. He just returned from a two month trip to Tibet and other parts of China. He was born in Amdo, was raised in a Buddhist family and grew up with a Tibetan upbringing and was educated from the local elders. He also took formal spiritual training from many great monastic teachers in Tibet. In 1982, he went to Beijing and completed his higher education at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing where he trained as both a historian and a Buddhologist. Upon receiving his degree in Tibetan studies, he accepted a teaching and research appointment as a professor at the University and taught numerous courses on Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan cultural history between 1986-1997. He came to the United States for graduate work in Buddhist studies at Berkeley in 1998. He is a prolific translator of various Tibetan Buddhist texts.
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Monday, March 10, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - Dr. Jacques deLisle presented "Are 'Gaps' in Law Potential 'Traps' for China's Transition?" Dr. deLisle is Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and a faculty member of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of Asia Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies.
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WINTER QUARTER 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - Mr. Bajin Zhang presented "Paradise Can be Made: The Story of an Entrepreneur in China". Zhang Bajin started work in the Xinzheng cigarette factory as a cigarette roller as his first job. Zhang later started a personal business, and built the first SINO-foreign joint ventures advertising company "Golden Future", which became the biggest CD-Rom producing company in China. Currently, Zhang runs the Beijing Fudaguanghua Investment Consulting Ltd he founded.
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Friday, January 25, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - Mr. Jinkui Li presented "Chinese Urbanization and 'village enclaves in the city'". Jinkui Li is currently director of the China Development Institute and Directive researcher of the Urbanization Management Division. He was awarded the “Most Remarkable personnel of Chinese Urban Construction” by China 's Ministry of Construction in the Great Hall of People.
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Friday, January 11, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China-East Asia Forum - Dr. Tia-Chun Kuo presented "Unlocking Modern China History: Chiang Kai-shek Diaries, 1918-1945". Dr. Kuo is a Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Prior to this position, she was a Visiting Lecturer at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (2003) and Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1997-2000).
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