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JACKSON/HO CHINA FORUM -The DENVER CHINA
FORUM was renamed to the JACKSON/HO CHINA 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).
RSVP required to CCUSC@du.edu or 303-871-4474 for all forums.
For questions about the program, contact Dr. Sam S. Zhao at 303.871.2401
or szhao@du.edu. If you would like to receive email invitations for
CCUSC events, please email CCUSC@du.edu or call 303-871-4474.
For disability accommodations, please contact Yvette Peterson at 303-871-4474 or ccusc@du.edu as soon as possible with your request.
SPRING QUARTER 2010
Jackson/Ho China Forum - The China Center's guest, Charles Freeman, will present "US-China Relations in a Time of Shifting Power.” Dr. Freeman holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. He concentrates on the political economyof China and other parts of East Asia; and on U.S.-China relations, particularly trade and economic relations. A second-generation “China hand,” he has lived and worked between Asia and the United States for his entire life. He has acquired his career-long expertise in China’s economic and political emergence from senior positions in government, business and the non-profit sector. During his government career, he served as assistant U.S. trade representative (USTR) for China affairs in the Executive Office of the President. In this capacity he was the United States’ chief China trade negotiator and played a primary role in shaping overall trade policy with respect to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Mongolia. During his tenure as assistant USTR, he oversaw U.S. efforts to integrate China into the global trading architecture of the World Trade Organization.
The free forum will be held from 12:00-1:30 pm in Room 201 of Cherrington Hall. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Please RSVP by email to ccusc@du.edu or call 303.871.4474 no later than Friday, February 19th, 2010.
WINTER QUARTER 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010- Jackson/Ho China Forum - The China Center will hold a “Conversation on China’s Environment” with Dr. Elizabeth Economy. Dr. Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published widely on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent book, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future, won the 2005 International Convention on Asia Scholars Award for the best social sciences book published on Asia, and was named one of the University of Cambridge’s Top 50 Sustainability Books in 2008 and one of the top ten books of 2004 by the Globalist.
The free forum will be held from 4:00-5:00 pm in Room 201 of Cherrington Hall. Please RSVP by email to ccusc@du.edu or call 303.871.4474 no later than Friday, February 5th, 2010.
Dr. Economy will present later in the evening at 7:00pm, “China’s Environmental Future” for the Bridges to the Future event in the Gates Concert Hall of the Newman Center. To RSVP for this event, please visit http://surveys.du.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=8622m72 or email scp@du.edu.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 - Jackson/Ho China Forum - Our guest, Prof. Tun-jen Cheng, will present “Asian New Democracies and Their Political Discontents.” Prof. Cheng currently holds the Class of 1935 Chair Professorship in the Government Department of the College of William and Mary. He also edits Taiwan Journal of Democracy. His primary interests are in comparative political economy and East Asian development. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, co-authored Newly Industrializing East Asia in Transition and co-edited Political Change in Taiwan, Inherited Rivalry, The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific, New Leadership and New Agenda, Religious Organizations and Democracy in Contemporary Asia, and China Under Hu Jintao. Professor Cheng was Editor-in-Chief of the American Asian Review, a major refereed quarterly on Asian affairs.
The free forum will be held from 4:15-5:45pm in Room 201 of Cherrington Hall. Please RSVP by email to ccusc@du.edu or call 303.871.4474 no later than Tuesday, January 12th, 2010.
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