Edith Terry (Opinion Pages Editor, South China Morning Post)
| DATE: | Friday, May 16, 2003 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Shorenstein Seminar |
| SPONSOR: | Institute of East Asian Studies |
Reception and book signing will follow the presentation.
Japan has, for the past two decades, been seeking new alliances in Asia through trade and aid, in an effort to enhance its security. As its fortunes have risen and fallen in the west, Japan has built enduring ties in East Asia, culminating this year in China replacing the U.S. as Japan's number one trading partner. Could productive economic ties with its neighbors eventually supplant Japan's Cold War pact with the U.S.? Author Edith Terry argues that this quiet progress, with Japan's leadership and China's growth, could create a new regional movement counter to the convergence theories of free markets and globalization. Join us for this forward-looking discussion.
Edith Terry is an author, journalist, and consultant based in Hong Kong. She has been a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Business Week Magazine and Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper, and is currently Opinion Pages Editor of the South China Morning Post. Ms. Terry has been a visiting fellow at research institutes in East Asia and the United States, including the Japan Institute for International Affairs in Tokyo, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, Gaston Sigur Center for Asian Studies in Washington, DC, and the Economic Strategy Institute, also in Washington. She has been the recipient of grants and awards including Journalist in Residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu; an Abe Fellowship from the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation; and a Fulbright Pacific Rim fellowship. Her most recent book, How Asia Got Rich: Japan, China and the Asian Miracle, was published by ME Sharpe in 2002.
