Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1972 - Nixon visits People's Republic of China
From: Action Speaks
Length: 00:58:59
Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America." Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220. Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!
The 2009 season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.
Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1972 - Nixon visits People's Republic of China?What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of 'Chicken'...the US and China; partners or enablers?
The panelists for the 1972 forum are:
Howard W. French is a Associate Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former reporter for the New York Times, French has served as bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China in Shanghai. French is also an author, documentary photographer and two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize.
Crystal Jiang, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Management at Bryant University's Business College. She received her PhD at Temple University majoring in international business, where she studied the dynamic evolution of Chinese firms and the roles government play. Her research interests include internationalization, innovation strategy, and corporate entrepreneurship of emerging economy firms. Her research work appears in the Oxford Handbook of International Business, Journal of World Business, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and others.
Robert George Lee, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Civilization and Chair of the Department of American Civilization at Brown University, where he teaches such courses as "China in the American Imagination." He has published on a wide range of subjects related to Asian American studies, racial formations, and relations between Asia and America. Three of Lee's well known books are: Dear Miye, Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946, Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture, and Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas.
William H. Overholt, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He formerly held the Asia Policy Research Chair at RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy and served as Director of the Center. A well-known and well-respected analyst of Asian politics, Overholt is the founder of the prestigious journal, Global Assessment, and a frequent publisher. His recent work includes America and Asia: The Coming Transformation of Asian Geopolitics and the award-winning The Rise of China.
Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix. Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.
Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/
Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.
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Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America." Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220. Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!
The 2009 season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.
Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1972 - Nixon visits People's Republic of China?What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of 'Chicken'...the US and China; partners or enablers?
The panelists for the 1972 forum are:
Howard W. French is a Associate Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former reporter for the New York Times, French has served as bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China in Shanghai. French is also an author, documentary photographer and two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize.
Crystal Jiang, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Management at Bryant University's Business College. She received her PhD at Temple University majoring in international business, where she studied the dynamic evolution of Chinese firms and the roles government play. Her research interests include internationalization, innovation strategy, and corporate entrepreneurship of emerging economy firms. Her research work appears in the Oxford Handbook of International Business, Journal of World Business, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and others.
Robert George Lee, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Civilization and Chair of the Department of American Civilization at Brown University, where he teaches such courses as "China in the American Imagination." He has published on a wide range of subjects related to Asian American studies, racial formations, and relations between Asia and America. Three of Lee's well known books are: Dear Miye, Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946, Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture, and Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas.
William H. Overholt, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He formerly held the Asia Policy Research Chair at RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy and served as Director of the Center. A well-known and well-respected analyst of Asian politics, Overholt is the founder of the prestigious journal, Global Assessment, and a frequent publisher. His recent work includes America and Asia: The Coming Transformation of Asian Geopolitics and the award-winning The Rise of China.
Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix. Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.
Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/
Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.
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