ADVISORY/Asia Society Southern California Center and Los Angeles Athletic Club present: CHINA DAWN: The Story of a Business and Technology Revolution.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (March 26) --(BUSINESS WIRE) March 26, 2002, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The Los Angeles Athletic Club Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC) is an athletic club in Los Angeles, California, USA. It awards the John R. Wooden Award to the outstanding men's and women's college basketball player of each year. 431 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , CA 90014 (Between 7th and Olive Street), Parking $3 Members $35; The Los Angeles Athletic Club members $40; Non-members $45 MEDIA WELCOME Panel Discussion with: Dr. Richard Baum, Director of the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Center for Chinese Studies Nina Hachigian is an associate director in the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy at Rand Corporation Rand Corporation, research institution in Santa Monica, Calif.; founded 1948 and supported by federal, state, and local governments, as well as by foundations and corporations. Its principal fields of research are national security and public welfare. . She researches the effects of technology on politics and governance in Asia. David Sheff is the author of CHINA DAWN (HarperBusiness, March 2002) and a contributor and writer to Wired and Yahoo Internet Life. He is the author of Game Over. Stephen Randall (moderator) is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission Annenberg School of Journalism. His novel, The Other Side of Mulholland, was named one of the Best Books of 2001 by the LA. Times Book Review. There new revolution in China, one that intends to unite the people of at this vast and populous nation as never before. Highways, roadways and the information superhighway are being constructed simultaneously, leapfrogging a rural economy into the modern-day information age. "In China, I feel the explosive combination of forces aligning to create the kind of change that alters the course of history," writes David Sheff, the author of China Dawn. China Dawn, researched over three years, is the chronicle of the nascent Chinese technology revolution- a movement with, says Sheff, "the immodest im·mod·est adj. 1. Lacking modesty. 2. a. Offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance; indecent: a bathing suit considered immodest by the local people. b. goal of transforming the lives of more than a fifth of the world's people." His book centers on the entrepreneurs who are trying to spark a social transformation by bringing the latest information technology to the planet's most populous country. |
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