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The 17th Annual Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture with Professor Thomas G. Rawski
The Sigur Center holds their 17th Annual Memorial Lecture featuring Professor Rawski and his talk on China's economic prosperity
When:
April 22, 2013 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Where
Join us for the 17th Annual Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture! This year, Professor Thomas G. Rawski will lecture on the topic of "China's Boom -- Why Not Earlier? Why So Long? Can it Last?"
Reception 5:00 - 5:30 pm
Lecture 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Thomas G. Rawski is Professor of Economics and History at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Rawski has also been an External Fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham (UK) since 2009. He received both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and speaks Chinese, Japanese and German. He has taught courses ranging from economic development to to the economy of China and Japan. He is a contributer to and co-editor of China's Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia (2010) and China's Great Economic Transformation (2009).
Please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/sigurmemorial.
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