China author, columnist, and television commentator
Gordon Chang will speak at the Clarence Dillon Public Library on Sunday,
October 16, 2016 at 2:00 pm. He will
offer an insightful perspective on where China is headed and its influence on
the world.
Gordon Chang is the author
of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, released by
Random House in January 2006. Showdown focuses on nuclear
proliferation in general and the North Korean crisis in particular. His
first book is The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, August 2001).
He is a contributor at Forbes.com and blogs at World Affairs Journal and a
resident of Bedminster, New Jersey.
His writings on China and North Korea have
appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Far
Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary,
The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Barron's.
He has spoken at Columbia,
Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The
Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the
American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other
institutions. He has given briefings at the National Intelligence
Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the
Pentagon. He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including
Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais
Securities Asia. Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He has
appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the
BBC, and Bloomberg Television.
The program will take place in the
downstairs meeting rooms of the library.
Admission is $5.00 which is payable at the door. Registration is recommended but not required. Please register by calling the library at
908-234-2325 or by email ref@dillonlibrary.org or in person at the circulation desk.