CHINA
EXPERT GORDON CHANG TO SPEAK AT THE CLARENCE DILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY ON SUNDAY,
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
China author, columnist, and television commentator Gordon
Chang will speak at the Clarence Dillon Public Library on Sunday, February 8,
2015 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. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is a
frequent co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show.
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.
