Global Issues: John Pomfret
Wednesday, March 28, 2018Time 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
John Pomfret, International Journalist and Author
The two-century-old relationship of China and America: What could it mean for today’s geopolitics and for our future?
Wednesday, March 28, 2017 | 4:30pm
John Pomfret is an award-winning journalist and author. He was a correspondent in China for the Associated Press and Bureau Chief for the Washington Post in Beijing. During the 1980s as a foreign correspondent, he covered wars in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Iraq, southwestern Turkey and northeastern Iran. His recent book, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present, is the first narrative history of America’s relationship with China, and describes how deeply America has and continues to inspire the Chinese. He received his BA and MA from Stanford University and was one of the first American students to study in China following the Sino-American rapprochement. He wrote about his experiences and his Chinese classmates at Nanjing University in his 2006 best seller, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China. He speaks and writes Mandarin, was recently a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Beijing and was awarded the Asia Society’s Osborne Elliot premier award for the best coverage of Asia. John and his wife, Mei Zhang, entrepreneur, author and founder of Wild China, have three children and live near San Francisco.
General Admission $35/lecture All four lectures $125
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