The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century / Thomas L. Friedman

 

Speaker: Gordon Chang
Date: 7 March 2006 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Language: English

 

About the Book

In this book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

 

 

About the Speaker

Gordon G. Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. He has served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.

His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, The Weekly Standard, and the South China Morning Post.

He is the author of The Coming Collapse of China, his first book (Random House, August 2001). His next book, Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, will be published by Random House in January 2006. Showdown will focus on nuclear proliferation in general and the North Korean crisis in particular.