Join us for an event featuring Dr. Susan L. Shirk, Research Professor & Chair of 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy. Dr. Shirk will join us for a conversation on her new book Overreach, a follow-up to Shirk’s influential China: Fragile Superpower.

Background:

Dr. Susan L. Shirk is one of the most knowledgeable scholars in the US on China, and she uses her unparalleled insider contacts and decades of research experience to full force in her new book. As the Chinese Communist Party Congress convenes in fall 2022, Dr. Shirk’s perspective will be essential for understanding Xi’s leadership style and how countries like the US should act in response to China’s overreach in the years to come. Overreach will be released in October 2022.

Featuring:

Dr. Susan L. Shirk, Research Professor & Chair of 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy

Dr. Susan L. Shirk is research professor and chair of the 21st Century China Center. She is one of the most influential experts working on U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics. She is also director emeritus of the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). She first visited China in 1971 and has been teaching, researching and engaging China diplomatically ever since. From 1997-2000, Dr. Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.

Dr. Victoria Chonn Ching, Postdoctoral Scholar - Teaching Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at USC

Dr. Victoria Chonn Ching holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Southern California. She also has an M.A. in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her areas of expertise and research include economic policy-making and agency, development and growth, Chinese politics and foreign economic policy, Latin America's political economy, China-Latin America-U.S. relations. Before pursuing a Ph.D., she worked as the Director's Assistant of the Center for China and Asia- Pacific Studies (formely known as the Center for Peru-China Studies) at Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru, where she was also a researcher in the Research Center (CIUP).