Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
The Taiwan Issue in American Politics and US-China Relations
The George Washington University holds a lecture on the Taiwan issue.
Speaker:
Shelley Rigger -- Brown Professor and Chair of Political Science, Davidson College
Dr. Rigger will lecture on historical and modern-day relations between Taiwan, China, and the United States. Afterwards, we will have open student discussions on cross-strait relations between Taiwan and China. Refreshments will be provided.
Shelley Rigger has a Ph.D in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai (2006). She is the author of Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (2011) as well as two books on Taiwan's domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (2001). She has published articles on Taiwan's domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her monograph, "Taiwan's Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and 'Taiwan Nationalism'" was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006. Her current research studies the effects of cross-strait economic interactions on Taiwan people's perceptions of Mainland China.
Please RSVP to cdubwang@gwmail.gwu.edu.
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