• US-China Relations in Flux: Political and Economic Perspectives

    Agnes Scott College Teasley Auditorium, Bullock Science Center 141 E. College Avenue, Decatur, GA, United States

    This forum will discuss current US-China relations from the perspectives of politics and economics. Yawei Liu and Penelope Prime both have earned broad international renown and are widely published in their fields, politics and economics, respectively. Dr. Yawei Liu is Director of the China Program at The Carter Center. He organizes excellent programs on China […]

  • Gung Ho! Industrial Co-ops in Wartime China: New Insights

    Agnes Scott College Teasley Auditorium, Bullock Science Center 141 E. College Avenue, Decatur, GA, United States

    Shang Yaning (Linda Shang), the speaker for this forum, is a respected scholar in the field of Chinese foreign relations before 1949. The focus of her research is the Gung Ho movement to develop industrial cooperatives during Chinaโ€™s war against Japan, with special interest in Edgar and Helen Snow, who helped to establish this movement. […]

  • US – China Peoples Friendship Association Spring Forum

    Agnes Scott College Teasley Auditorium, Bullock Science Center 141 E. College Avenue, Decatur, GA, United States

    โ€œXi Jinpingโ€™s Comm-fucianist Thought: Some Sources and Consequencesโ€ Stephen B. Herschlerย is Associate Professor of Political Science and Interim Director of the Center for Global Education at Oglethorpe University. His presentation will focus on his โ€œdistinctiveโ€ take on Xiโ€™s thought. Dr. Herschler will discuss the relationship between language, thought and action as forms of power, a […]