Is China's Rise Inevitable? What Might Go Wrong?

Is China's Rise Inevitable? What Might Go Wrong?
Principal speaker

Mr Martin Jacques

The Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and Asialink would like to invite you to:


‘Is China’s Rise Inevitable? What might go wrong?’

Presented by Mr Martin Jacques, globally renowned Public Intellectual and Economist.

 

Martin will discuss key problems, both economic and political, that China will face in the process of becoming the dominant global power. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from and engage in Q&A with a world authority on China and the changing world order.

Martin Jacques is the author of the global best-seller When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, which has been translated into fifteen languages. His TED talk on how to understand China has had over 1.2 million views. He is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at IDEAS, a centre for diplomacy and grand strategy at the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also a Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC.

Martin has previously been a Visiting Professor at Renmin University, the International Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University, Nagoya, and Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was formerly the editor of the renowned London-based monthly Marxism Today until its closure in 1991 and was co-founder of the think-tank Demos. He has been a columnist for many newspapers, made many television programmes and is a former deputy editor of The Independent newspaper. He took his doctorate while at King’s College, Cambridge.

  • Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Cultural Precinct, South Bank
  • Tuesday 27 August 2013
  • 6:00-7:00pm, doors open at 5:30pm

Guests are welcome to join us for refreshments prior to the seminar. Please RSVP to Natasha Vary by Thursday 22 August 2013 on telephone 07 37355322 or email n.vary@griffith.edu.au
 

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  • Location GOMA- Cinema B, Stanley Place, South Bank | South Bank campus
  • Time 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm
  • date Tuesday 27 August 2013