"China: The Sleeping Giant Awakes" is the title of a free public lecture by Edwin Williams from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8 in Schulz 1121 at Sonoma State University. The event is sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Willaims has traveled to China 12 times since the early 1980's and witnessed first hand China's spectacular economic growth since the inception of the "free-market economy."
Now president of TraveLearn and former Director of International Programs at Kean University in New Jersey, he was in China a few months before the 1989 uprising in TiananMen Square. He has also visited the Three Gorges Dam project.
He was also in China during the 16th Party Congress of the Communist Party which announced a change to the current leadership and also brought successful capitalist entrepreneurs into the party.
A question and answer period following his lecture will allow for responses to issues related to contemproary China, travel in China and the country's past.
For more information, please contact Joni Boucher at (707) 664-2615.
