Furman's Riley Institute To Sponsor Major Two-Day Conference On China Oct. 25-26
GREENVILLE, S.C. - China's economy is the fastest growing in the world, and the nation is rapidly becoming the world leader in export manufacturing. With its huge population and low wage costs, many predict that China's gross national product will exceed
that of the United States by the middle of this century.
What does the rise of China, the world's next super power, mean for America?
Furman's Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership will address that question when it sponsors a two-day forum on campus Oct. 25-26. The program, which will feature some of the nation's top experts on China, is titled "China's Global Rise: The Chinese Economy and the United States."
The forum is free and open to the public.
The program will open Monday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Hartness Pavilion with a keynote address by Albert Keidel, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment. The former deputy director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Keidel addresses issues relating to China's economic system reforms for the Carnegie Endowment.
Following Keidel's address, there will be a panel discussion on "Challenges and Prospects: China's Domestic Economy in the 21st Century." The panelists will include Dorothy Solinger, a professor of political science at the University of California at Irvine; Sonia Li, director of the China International Institute of Multinational Corporations in Beijing; and Fei-ling Wang, a professor at The Sam Nunn School of International Relations at Georgia Tech.
The forum will conclude Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center's Watkins Room with an address by Pieter Bottelier, an international economist and China scholar. Bottelier is currently an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and a former senior advisor to the Vice President for the East Asia division at the World Bank.
More complete biographical information about the forum participants is below. For more information, contact Furman's Riley Institute at 864-294-3280 or visit Furman's website at www.rileyinstitute.org.
CHINA FORUM BIOS
Dr. Pieter Bottelier, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, former Senior Advisor to the Vice President for the East Asia division at the World Bank
Dr. Bottelier is an international economist, China scholar and consultant. He has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Dr. Bottelier worked at the World Bank between 1970-1998. He served as Senior Advisor to the Vice President for East Asia, 1997-98; Chief of the World Bank's Resident Mission in Beijing, 1993-97; consecutive directorships for Latin America and North Africa, 1987-93; Division Chief for Mexico, 1983-87; resident Chief Economist in Jakarta, Indonesia, 1979-83. He also carried out various assignments in Africa as an economic analyst between 1970-79. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Bottelier was Economic Advisor to the Zambian Ministry of Finance, 1965-67 and 1968-70; consultant to UNCTAD on the global market for non-ferrous metal, 1968; Lecturer at Amsterdam University, 1964; and Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1963.
Albert Keidel, Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dr. Keidel is currently a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment, where he addresses issues relating to China's economic system reforms, macroeconomy, regional development, and poverty reduction strategy. Until September 2004, he served as deputy director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Before joining Treasury in 2001, he covered economic trends, system reforms, poverty, and country risk as a senior economist in the World Bank office in Beijing. Dr. Keidel speaks six languages, has worked in China, Japan, and Korea, and has taught graduate economics courses on China, Japan, and development. Selected Publications include: "China's GDP Expenditure Accounts," China Economic Review, December, 2001; "China's Economy: A Mixed Performance," China Business Review, May-June, 2001; "Practical Issues in Using the Chinese Statistical System," China Perspectives No. 33, Jan-Feb, 2001
Dr. Sonia Li, Director, Director of China International Institute of Multinational Corporations (Beijing)
Dr. Li has a B.A. in foreign language and literature from Zhengzhou University; M.A. in international relations from Beijing Foreign Affairs College under China Foreign Affairs Ministry; M.S. in international relations in exchange programs from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and her Ph.D in international relations from University of South Carolina at Columbia. Prior to her work with the Institute, Dr. Li was the Senior VP and Chief Representative for Asian operation, American Evaliant Media Resources L.L.C.; General Manager, Sinomonitor Inc.; and researcher under China Academy of Social Sciences.
Dr. Dorothy Solinger, Professor of Political Science, University of California at Irvine
Professor Solinger's field of specialization is Chinese politics with a concentration on political economy. In particular, she has focused on the political decisionmaking and social and political reactions to policy about economic matters. She has been awarded numerous academic fellowships and distinctions for her scholarship, including the 2001 Joseph R. Levenson prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on 20th century China published in 1999 -- Contesting Citizenship in Urban China. Dr. Solinger has done consulting work for the World bank, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and the Public Broadcasting System, and was a member of the Editorial Board of the University of California Press. She also served as Chairman of the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.
Dr. Fei-ling Wang, The Sam Nunn School of International Relations, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Wang boasts an professorships from universities in both the U.S. and Asia with research interests including world politics and international relations, international political economy, institutions and institutional changes, modernization, development, labor allocation, and internal migration, and the political economy and foreign policies of East Asia and China. Dr. Wang's publications include a book entitled From Family to Market: Labor Allocation in Contemporary China (March, 1998), as well as other books and about thirty articles and book chapters in Chinese and English on international affairs and China's political economy and foreign relations.
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