Programme
2.30 p.m
Arrival of Guest and Registration
2.50 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks by
Professor Dr Danny Wong Tze Ken
Director, Institute of China Studies
University of Malaya
3.00 p.m.
Public Lecture
“China’s Rise, America’s Dilemma”
3:45 p.m.
Q & A session
4:15 p.m.
Presentation of Souvenir & Group Photo
4:30 p.m.
Refreshments
5:00 p.m.
End of Programme
Public Lecture
China’s Rise, America’s Dilemma
by
Professor Lowell Dittmer
Abstract
The rise of the People's Republic of China, dramatically accelerated since
Deng Xiaoping introduced "reform and opening" in late 1978, has been one of the
most successful modernization programs in the world. In 1978, China was one of the
poorest countries on earth. The real per capita GDP in China was only one-fortieth of
the U.S. level and one-tenth the Brazilian level. Since 2014, according to the IMF
figures using PPP measures, China has the largest aggregate economy in the
world. Since the historic visit to China by President Richard Nixon in 1972, the
United States has taken a supportive view of China's rise, at first for strategic
reasons, later based on a mixture of trade complementarity and shared interests. But
since around 2008, China-America relations have cooled. Why is this happening?
What does Beijing want, what does Washington want, where are the points of friction,
and how might they be reconciled?
About the Speaker
Professor Dittmer received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1971.
His scholarly expertise is the study of contemporary China. He teaches courses on
contemporary China, Northeast Asia, and the Pacific Rim. His current research
interests include a study of the impact of reform on Chinese Communist authority, a
survey of patterns of informal politics in East Asia, and a project on the ChinaTaiwan-US triangle in the context of East Asian regional politics. Professor Dittmer's
recently published books and monographs include Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its
International Implications (University of Washington Press, 1992), China's Quest for
National Identity (with Samuel Kim, Cornell University Press, 1993), China Under
Modernization (Westview Press, 1994), and South Asia's Nuclear Crisis (M. E.
Sharpe, 2005).
Professor Dittmer is a Professor in the Department of Political Science,
University of California(Berkeley). He is also the Editor of Asian Survey, a widely
respected journal on contemporary political developments in Asia. He is now in the
Institute of China Studies,University of Malaya as an Academic Icon for the first half
of 2015.
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