The Confucius Institute are delighted to host Professor Kerry Brown to give a talk on Monday 15th May titled: 'The World According to Xi Jinping: What is His Vision for China in the 21st Century.'

Date: Monday 15th May 2017
Time: 6pm - 8pm

Abstract
Since becoming Party Secretary in 2012, Xi Jinping has undertaken the most extensive amount of foreign travel by any Chinese leader ever. He has visited over 45 countries, across the world. During those visits he has been articulating grand narratives of China's relationship with countries like the US, Europe, and the partners in the grand Belt Road Initiative. But what does this story actually mean, when put together, and who is it most directed at - domestic audiences, or the wider world? In the era of a protectionist, introspective US and a benighted EU, what sense can truly be made of the notion of a Global China?'

Speaker Biography

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London. From 2012 to 2015 he was Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this he worked at Chatham House from 2006 to 2012, as Senior Fellow and then Head of the Asia Programme. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippine and East Timor Section.

He has a Master of Arts from Cambridge University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Mandarin Chinese (Distinction) from Thames Valley University, London, and a PhD in Chinese politics and language from Leeds University.

Professor Brown directed the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN) giving policy advice to the European External Action Service between 2011 and 2014. He is the author of over ten books on modern Chinese politics, history and language, the most recent of which are The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China (2014), What's Wrong with Diplomacy: The Case of the UK and China (2015) and the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (in Four Volumes- 2014-2015). His China's CEO: Xi Jinping' was published in 2016 and was an Economist book of the year. China's World', a study of Chinese foreign policy, will be published in June 2017.

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