Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Cheng Siwei: Challenges to Re-balancing China's Economy
Cheng Siwei, Chairman of the International Finance Forum (Beijing)will speak at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club.
When:
October 20, 2011 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Where
Cheng Siwei, Chair, International Finance Forum (Beijing); Chairman, World Economic Forum’s Chinese Advisory Council; Recipient, The Asia Foundation’s Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Visiting Fellow Award
The past three decades have witnessed China’s dramatic transformation from a largely agrarian economy to an urban society with a highly skilled labor force in manufacturing, and increasingly in the high-tech industry. Siwei, a noted economist and former vice chair of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, has played a key role in his country’s economic transformation over the last 20 years. As the concurrent chair of the International Finance Forum, Beijing, and president of the Association of Management Modernization, China, he is intimately acquainted with a range of domestic and global issues confronting China today and will provide a unique, insider’s perspective on the country’s outlook for the next five years. In particular, he will discuss strategies for China to sustain an adequate growth trajectory.
Cost:
$7 for Students, $20 for Standard.
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