IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
| DATE: | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
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| TIME: | 1:30-3:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | The Women's Faculty Club |
| FORMAT: | Lecture and book signing |
| SPONSOR: | Institute of East Asian Studies |
In China Hands James Lilley reflects on his extraordinary life and career in espionage and diplomacy between America and Asia during and after the Cold War. Lilley served for twenty-five years in the CIA in Laos, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Taiwan before moving to the State Department in the early 1980s to begin a distinguished career as the top-ranking US diplomat in Taiwan, ambassador to South Korea, and finally ambassador to China. Lilley takes the reader inside the CIA, the White House, and other US government agencies, all around Asia, and illuminates a number of important historical events. From helping Laotian resistance insurgent forces assist the American efforts in Vietnam to his posting in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, he was in a remarkable number of crucial places during challenging times as he spent his life tending to US interests in Asia.
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