The Asia Pacific Center for Justice and Peace is a Washington-based non-profit advocacy organization working toward peace and justice in the Asia-Pacific region through the promotion of better understanding and policy action in the U.S.
Its second annual conference, Focus on China, will be held from January 31 -February 1, 1997 at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C. The goal of the conference will be to gain a deeper understanding of China, both domestically and as a global presence.
Panels will explore:
regional issues (political relations with Asian Countries)(Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation);
questions of sovereignty and self-rule in Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong/Macao;
U.S.-China relations.
Dr. Richard Madsen, author of China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry, will deliver the keynote address.
Issues to be covered in the keynote and/or workshops: the roots of Chinese nationalism and anti-imperialism rapid economic growth and the current state/market hybrid economy spurring rural/urban, coastal/hinterland, haves/have-not tensions
how domestic concerns and realities shape the Chinese government's internal and external policies and attitudes
the evolution of autonomous civil and religious institutions
issues facing women in China
tensions between ecological interests and economic development
human rights concerns
SPEAKERS:
Robert Sutter (Congressional Research Service),
Quansheng Zhao (American University),
Nien Cheng (author, Life and Death in Shanghai),
Chris Flavin (World Watch Institute),
Janet Carroll (U.S. Catholic China Bureau),
Susumu Awanohara (Nikko Research Center),
Albert Keidel (Rock Creek Research, Inc.),
June Teufel Dreyer (University of Miami),
Lodi Gyari (International Campaign for Tibet),
Peter K. H. Lee (Princeton Theological Seminary),
Xiao Qiang (Human Rights in China),
Weishuang Qu (Millennium Institute), and others.
For more information and registration, contact Panravee at APC, 202-543-1094 (phone), 202-546-5103 (fax), or apcjp@igc.apc.org.
