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The Great Transformation: how China changed in the long 1970s

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LSE IDEAS public lecture

Date: Thursday 22 January 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Chen Jian
Chair: Professor Arne Westad

Update Wednesday 21 January 1.30pm: This lecture will now be taking place in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

Professor Chen offers a historian's overview of China's 1970s transformation and the beginning of global systemic change that this transformation helped create.

Chen Jian is Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2008-09 at LSE. He is the Michael J Zak Chair of the History of US China Relations at Cornell University.

Podcast and Video

A podcast of this event is available to download from the LSE public lectures and events podcasts channel. 

A video of the event can be watched at LSE Live

Media queries: please contact the Press Office if you would like to reserve a press seat or have a media query about this event, email pressoffice@lse.ac.uk 

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