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WHO: Lionel Jensen, associate professor and director of the program in Chinese
Studies at CU-Denver, and Timothy Weston, assistant professor at CU-Boulder
WHAT: will discuss and sign China Beyond the Headlines, a book they
co-edited
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 25, 2000
WHERE: The Tattered Cover Book Store, Lodo
16th and Wynkoop
China, the most populous nation in the world with more than 1.3 billion people and a history stretching back 3,500 years, has become an increasingly significant force in the world. It's a nation just beginning to flex its economic and global muscle.
It is also a very complex nation facing problems, many of which receive little or no attention outside its borders, according to Jensen and Weston.
"In this book, we want to explore a more complex China than usually gets presented to Americans by the media," Weston said. "What we found, and what we think needs to be understood, is that China and the United States are facing many similar challenges as nations."
According to Jensen and Weston, this book strives to address issues like environmental degradation, unemployment, growing inequality, and ethnicity and human rights, in an accessible and self-reflective way that brings modern China to life, while dispelling the myth that it is nothing more than a faraway country to be feared.
A range of authors, many of whom teach at the University of Colorado, wrote the bookıs 14 chapters. The book was published by Rowman & Littlefield.