Seminar: "The East Asian Community and current Sino-Japanese Relations”
Language: Chinese & English
Speaker: Dr. Ming WAN. Professor of Government and Politics and Director of Global Affairs Program of George Mason University

Time: 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Place: Charlie Chiang's Van Ness-UDC, 4250 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 966-1916/1942

Metro Accessible: Take the Red Line to Van Ness-UDC. Exit on the West Side. Walk straight ahead less than a block and the restaurant will be on the left (at the corner of Connecticut Ave and Windom Place).

Speaker Introduction:

Dr. Ming WAN Ming WAN is Professor of Government and Politics and Director of Global Affairs Program of George Mason University. His Ph.D. was from the Government Department, Harvard University in 1993. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard from the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Pacific Basin Research Center, and was also a visiting research scholar at Tsukuba University and a George Washington University-Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Luce Fellow in Asian Policy Studies. He has authored The Political Economy of East Asia: Striving for Wealth and Power (CQ Press 2008), Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation (Stanford 2006), Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests (UPenn 2001), and Japan between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance (M.E. Sharpe 2001).

中国协会本月讲座系列定于十一月六日再次举行。本月的主讲人是美国乔治．梅森大学 (George Mason University)政府与政治学教授与全球事务项目主任万明博士。

万明教授1993年获哈佛大学政府系政治学博士学位，主攻国际关系与东亚政治，曾先后在哈佛大学国际事务中心的美日关系研究所、约翰．欧林战略研究所及肯尼迪政府学院的太平洋盆地研究中心人权研究项目从事博士后研究，并曾在日本筑波大学、乔治． 华盛顿大学与威尔逊国际中心作学术研究。其英文著述包括《东亚政治经济学：追求财富与国力》（国会季刊出版社, 2007年）、《中日关系：互 动、逻辑与演变》（斯坦福大学出版社, 2006年）、《中国外交中的人权问题：对国家利益的定义与捍卫》（宾州大学出版社，2001年）与《介于亚洲与西方之间的日本：经济力量与战略平衡》（夏普出版社，2001年）。

讲座时间是7：00PM – 9:30PM，讲座将用中英文进行，主讲人将和听众共进晚餐，费用:中国协会交费会员20$，其他$25。讲座地点是Charlie Chiang's Van Ness-UDC, 4250 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 966-1916/1942。

中国协会为非营利非政党组织，致力于促进中国和世界的相互了解；增进会员之间的友谊，合作和成功；并推动世界的和平与发展。协会向任何对中国及其相关世界感兴趣的人士开放，现有中外各界会员近2500人。