EVENT: Feb 15 - Jonathan Spence speaks at free public lecture

The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University is pleased to announce a free public lecture by

Jonathan Spence

Sterling Professor of History, Yale University

with introductory remarks by

Rice President David W. Leebron

CHINA AND THE WORLD: THE ENIGMA OF

TRANSNATIONAL CONTACT

Friday, February 15, 2008, at 4 p.m.

The Shell Auditorium, Janice and Robert McNair Hall

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management*

Rice University

Jonathan Spence is arguably the most eminent and accomplished historian of China in the United States today. He is the author of more than a dozen highly acclaimed scholarly books, including his most recent work, Return from Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man an intellectual biography of the famous 17th-century Chinese scholar, Zhang Dai. Among his many scholarly awards and distinctions are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William C. DeVane Medal of the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Los Angeles Times History Prize, the Vursel Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a MacArthur Fellowship, and election to the American Philosophical Society. In 2001, he was named Companion of the Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, an honor bestowed by the Queen of England for outstanding achievement. Spence was elected president of the American Historical Association in 2004, and in 2006, he was named a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University.

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