Forums 2008


The JACKSON/HO CHINA FORUM is funded by the William Sharpless Jackson, Jr. Endowment.

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Friday, November 14, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China Forum - Laura Tyson Li presented "Dragon Lady or Global Stateswoman: Legacy of Madame Chiang Kai-shek in US-China Relations." Laura Tyson Li is the author of "Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady," the first English-language biography of one of the world's most influential, colorful, and controversial women in modern history.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China Forum - Cheng Li presented "China's Emerging Generation of Leaders: Trajectory for the Future." Dr. Li is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center in Washington, DC, and the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College in New York.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - Jackson/Ho China Forum - Larry Diamond presented his new book "The Spirit of Democracy: The Expansion, Recession, and Future Prospects of Democracy around the World."
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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.
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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).
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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. Her memoir Socialism is Great was published by Atlas Books in New York.
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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 came to the United States for graduate work in Buddhist studies at Berkeley in 1998.
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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.
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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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