CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
“Engaging the Dragon: Economic Diplomacy in China”
Thursday, October 16th 2014
6:15 to 8:30 PM Webcast and Panel Discussion
GSU Buckhead Center, Tower Place 200, Suite 1200
3348 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30326
Please register here: World Affairs Council
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ eighth annual CHINA Town Hall will take place on Thursday, October 16. The event is designed to give audiences an in-depth understanding of U.S.-China bilateral relations, and is co-organized by the World Affairs Council and the China Research Center.
The program is a national webcast and local panel discussion.
The program will start at 6:15 pm with presentations by Hank Levine and Dr. Andrew Wedeman, Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and associate of the China Research Center, who will be introduced by Dr. Penelope Prime, Professor of international business at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University and Director of the China Research Center.
The webcast, from 7:00-8:00 pm, will feature President Jimmy Carter who will discuss current issues in Sino-American relations and take questions from a nation-wide audience moderated by National Committee president Steve Orlins.
This will then be followed by comments from Mr. Levine and Dr. Wedeman, and a Q&A session with the audience. The program will conclude at 8:30 pm.
Hank Levine is currently a Senior Director with the Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG), a strategic advisory firm in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining ASG, Mr. Levine spent 25 years with the State Department as a Foreign Service officer. He served twice at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and as U.S. Consul General in Shanghai. He also served for three years as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia at the U.S. Commerce Department. In that capacity he was the senior China advisor to two secretaries of Commerce and a lead negotiator for the annual U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade.
Dr. Andrew Wedeman is currently professor of political science at Georgia State University. Prior to this appointment, he spent eighteen years with the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), where he also served as the Director of the Asian Studies Program and the Director of the UNL International Studies Program. In addition he has held posts a visiting research professor at Beijing University, a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing University Center for Sino-American Studies and a Fulbright Research Professorship at Taiwan National University during 2001-2. His publications include Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China (Cornell); From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China (Cambridge); articles in a academic journals including China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China; and China Review; and chapters in numerous edited volumes. Professor Wedeman is now beginning a new book project examining social unrest in China.
Dr. Penelope Prime is professor of international business at the Institute of International Business, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Her teaching and research focus on international trade and development of emerging markets, with a particular emphasis on China’s economy and business environment. Her most recent books are Global Giant: Is China Changing the Rules of the Game? (co-edited with Eva Paus and Jon Western, Palgrave McMillan, 2009) and Taiwan’s Democracy: Economic and Political Challenges, (co-edited with Robert Ash and John W. Garver, Routledge, 2011). Dr. Prime is also the founder and director of the China Research Center (ChinaCenter.net), a non-profit organization dedicated to research and education about contemporary China based at the Institute of International Business at the Robinson College of Business, GSU.
