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The 18th 

Washington Seminar on US-China Relations

April 17 & 18, 2008 - Thursday and Friday - 9:00 am - 8:00 pm

Sponsored by

US-China Peoples Friendship Association 

www.uscpfa.org

 

Purpose:  To provide a forum to consider issues relevant to relations between the United States and China through interaction with experts at the leading edge of US-China relations.

 

Topics and Speakers include:

+Managing US-China Relations by Dr. Quansheng Zhao, Professor & Division Director of Comparative & Regional Studies and Director of Center for Asian Studies at American University in Washington, DC, and Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University

+China’s Current ‘Journey to the West'— Recent Developments in its Adoption of a Contemporary Commercial Framework  by Preston Torbert, Partner and a Founder of the China Practice of Baker & McKenzie, International Law Firm in Chicago

 +New U.S. Practice of Assessing Penalty Countervailing Duties on Goods Exported from Subsidized Chinese Companies (working title) by Deputy Assistant Secretary Stephen Claeys, International Trade Administration

+Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in China and WTO Action by U.S. (working title) by Susan Anthony, Attorney Advisor, & Tim Browning, Office of Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office (pending)

+Reconciling Coal with Environmental Protection in China by Kelly Sims Gallagher, Ph.D, Director of Energy Technology Innovation Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Adjunct Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

+Migration and China's Urban Transformation by Dr. Weiping Wu, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning & International Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

+China Briefing at the U.S. Department of State

+National Archives: Rotunda tour (founding documents) & discussion of Chinese immigration from Archive records (pending)

 

Meetings will be at this hotel.   If lodging here, make your reservation soon..

Westin DC City Center Hotel                       Phone: 202-429-1700 or 1-800-996-3426

1400 “M” Street NW                                                            Fax: 202-728-0530

Washington, DC 20005-2750                           

Special Rate: $139/per night-per room for 1-2 people; $25 each for additional person(s)

Rates valid before/after the Seminar, if rooms are available - Indicate your association with US-China Peoples Friendship Association’s Washington Seminar when reserving - Secure with major credit card

 

Seminar Registration Fees (per person)

 USCPFA members: $175 if paid by April 1; $200 after April 1

Non-Members: $200 if paid by April 1; $225 after April 1

 

Seminar Registration Fee Includes:

o Registration Packet    o Entrance to all Seminar events    o Lunch on Thursday and Friday 

o Transportation to some sites   o Presentations by China experts, diplomats, and Chinese officials

Seminar registration does not include Hotel accommodations

 

Direct questions to Kitty Trescott at 618-549-1555, or e-mail: trescott@midwest.net

  

Seminar Registration Form

Send with Seminar fees to Kitty Trescott, 1214 W. Schwartz, Carbondale IL 62901

Name___________________________________E-mail ______________________________

Mailing Address______________________________________Phone ___________________

City___________________State______Zip__________Chapter/Region__________________

For U.S. State Department visit, provide this information and BRING a photo ID:

(US citizen) Driver’s license # ______________________________State issued_____________

(Non-US Citizen) Passport # ___________________Country of citizenship_________________
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos from the October, 2004 Midwest Region Conference

Left to right:  Charles Petersen, Barbara Harrison, Consul General Xu Jinzhong, Scott Stuart (Nelson Atkins Museum of Art), and Mary Warpeha

Kansas City Conference Coordinator Joyce Cox welcoming Conference attendees

Left to right:  "Women in China:  Change and Challenges"  presenters Liu Meiyan and Carolyn Kadel 

Robe and table available for purchase at FaFa Gallery, host of a tea reception following Museum tours

Kansas City Chinese Ensemble entertained an attentive audience with their accomplished performances on the erhu, gaohu, zheng, yang qin and accordion

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Photos from the National Convention

Minnesota attendees posed with Consul General Xu Jinzhong from left:  Wen Li, Linda Mealey-Lohmann, Mary Warpeha, Xu Jinzhong, Barbara Harrison, Charles Petersen,  Judith Swanholm

Consul General Xu Jinzhong offers a promise of assistance in developing a Northern-style Chinese garden  to Minnesota Garden Committee members Barbara Harrison and Linda Mealey-Lohmann, Committee Chair

Minnesota Chapter prize winning T-shirt and peasant painter cards were sold 

Saturday Banquet speaker and Minnesota Region Chair,  Robert Sanborn, with Dr. Keith Krasemann, National Convention Chair, looking on

Consul General Xu Jinzhong at the Saturday evening banquet

click to enlarge

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Three photos of the USCPFA and Beijing sponsored traveling exhibit of Western China

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USCPFA National will host a traveling exhibit of the effects of Soong Ching Ling.  The initial exhibit (one of several being planned)  was displayed at the Southeby's Gallery  in Downtown Chicago.

Barbara Harrison, National Chairperson,  accepts an embroidered reproduction of the diadem displayed on the Soong Ching Ling fashion.  The embroidery was presented by Curators from the Soong Ching Ling Museum and Dr. Charles Li, volunteer and exhibit liaison in the United States.  

Photo of Soong Ching Ling from the traveling exhibit.

Watch for a notice of the exhibit arrival in Minnesota

 

 

 

 
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