The SAIS China Forum

“U.S.-China Educational Relations: Challenges Ahead”

Panel Discussion with:

Mr. Robert Daly, Director of Kissinger Institute Woodrow Wilson Center

Ms. Karin Fischer, Senior Writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education

Ms. Madelyn Ross, Associate Director SAIS-China

Moderator: Professor David M. Lampton, Director of China Studies, SAIS

Thursday, February 19, 2015, 5:00-7:00 pm

Kenney Auditorium

1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20036

In the thirty-seven years since the restoration of U.S.-China academic relations in 1978, enormous progress has been made in China’s domestic educational system and in U.S.-China educational relations.  Of course, there also have been periodic bumps in the road along the way, recent ones including Confucius institutes, academic freedom, and the effect of western values in the Chinese educational milieu. In this panel discussion, several keen observers of U.S.-China educational exchanges and educational developments in China will examine current trends in China’s domestic educational and propaganda system, the many positive stakes that both societies have in an ever-strengthening intellectual and cultural relationship, and U.S. interests and policy as we move into the future.

We hope that you will join us for a discussion of these issues that are so important to China’s development and the U.S.-China relationship     

Reception follows the presentation