Talk - 'The Chinese Century? Education, Entrepreneurship and National Power in the 21st Century'

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Talk - 'The Chinese Century? Education, Entrepreneurship and National Power in the 21st Century'

College of Humanities
January 11, 2017

Jan. 19 at 3 p.m.

UA Poetry Center, Rubel Room

Featuring: William C. Kirby, Harvard University

Britain and Germany set global standards in the 19th century. The 20th century has been called "The American Century." What, then, are the prospects for Chinese leadership in the 21st Century? This talk, based on a series of Harvard Business School cases, will explore China's capacity to lead the world in higher education, entrepreneurship, infrastructure, and power (hard and soft) in this century. As Europe and America turn inward, can China lead?

Sponsored by UA Global Studies, Department of History and the College of Humanities’ East Asian Studies. For more information, contact East Asian Studies Program at (520) 621-7505 or east-asian-studies@email.arizona.edu.

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a University Distinguished Service Professor. Professor Kirby serves as chairman of the Harvard China Fund and faculty chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai. At Harvard he has served as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, chairman of the History Department, and dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His current projects include case studies of trend-setting Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States. His most recent book is "Can China Lead?" (Harvard Business Review Press).

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