KEYNOTE

Orville Schell

Journalist & Long-Time China Watcher

For more than 30 years, Schell, Director of the Asia Society's new Center on US-China Relations in New York City, has been widely admired for his original and resourceful journalism on China. His 10 books on China include Virtual Tibet and Mandate of Heaven. Detailed CV.

SPEAKERS

Minxin Pei

Expert on Economic & Political Reform

Director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., raised in China & armed with a Harvard Ph.D., Pei is a cautious pessimist on U.S.-China relations and economic reform and governance in China. Detailed CV.

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy

Former Ambassador to China with 45 years of Regional Diplomatic Experience

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, Former Ambassador to China with 45 years of Regional Diplomatic Experience. Born in Nanjing, China to American missionary parents, Roy offers the wisdom borne of 45 years of experience with the U.S. Department of State, including his service as Ambassador to Singapore (1984-86), the People’s Republic of China (1991-95), and Indonesia (1996-99). He joined the strategic consulting firm of Kissinger Associates, Inc. in 2001. Detailed CV.

Jonathan Spence

Leading Historian on Modern China

Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, is widely recognized as the foremost scholar of Chinese civilization. His critically acclaimed The Search for Modern China is one of the standard texts on the last several hundred years of Chinese history, and his concise and accessible biography, Mao Zedong (Penguin Classics) is not to be missed. Detailed CV.

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