Towards a More Universal Universalism: Western and Chinese Perspectives

Wednesday, April 2, 2014
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
(Pacific)
Stanford Center at Peking University
Speaker: 
  • Timothy Garton Ash,
  • Li Qiang

Date:             April 2, 2014 (Wednesday)

Time:             16:00 – 17:30

Language:      English

Venue:           Stanford Center at Peking University, Langrun Yuan, Peking University

 

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of In Europe’s Name, History of the Present, Facts are Subversive, and other books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last thirty years. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian.

Li Qiang is Professor of Political Science at the School of Government at Peking University, Director for Development Planning Department, and Director of Center for European Studies at Peking University.