Washington Book Events - Week of July 22

RESISTING IMPERIALISM, RESISTING DECOLONIZATION: MAKING 'CHINA' FROM THE RUINS OF THE QING, 1912-1949. 7/23, 4:00pm. Sponsor: Library of Congress. Speaker: Kenneth Pomeranz, Professor, University of Chicago, President-elect of the American Historical Association, Author, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.

ASIA SOCIETY INTERVIEW: WEALTH AND POWER: CHINA'S LONG MARCH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Asia Society, New York, July 16, 2013

Authors Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, and John Delury, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Yonsei University, in conversation with Jonathan Spence, Professor of History at Yale University, on their new book Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century.

You can find more information on Wealth and Power on the book's website here