{"id":19472,"date":"2015-10-21T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=19472"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:00:13","slug":"fallows-shares-insights-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/10\/21\/fallows-shares-insights-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallows Shares Insights on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container fallows-lecture autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-19503\" data-slideshow-name=\"fallows-lecture\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-19503\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-19503_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img 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aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-6\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>6<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-7\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>7<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-8\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>8<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-9\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>9<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-10\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>10<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-11\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>11<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-12\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>12<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-13\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>13<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-14\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>14<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p>At an event organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University<\/a>\u00a0on October 21, 2015,\u00a0<em>Atlantic Monthly\u00a0<\/em>contributor and thought leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/james-fallows\/\">James Fallows<\/a> took attendees on a journey to modern China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/pardeepride\/calendar\/?eid=172175\">&#8220;Soft Power and Success: An Update on China from America&#8217;s Heartland&#8221;<\/a> was cosponsored by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.primarysource.org\/about-us\/history\"> Primary Source <\/a>organization, which supports global education for elementary and secondary education students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our mission is to support global learning for students, to make sure they learn about the world and maybe eventually attend schools like this,&#8221; said Jennifer Boyle, Executive Director of Primary Source, who introduced Fallows. &#8220;China is of course near and dear to our hearts, so we are thrilled to sponsor an event like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Soft\u00a0Power and Success&#8221; was moderated by Professor Erik Goldstein of the Pardee School. It included remarks by Fallows, a discussion period, a reception at the Boston University Castle, and a welcome and video presentation by Pardee School Dean Adil Najam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to host not only such an exciting speaker, but also to partner with an organization like Primary Source in bringing him here,&#8221; Najam said. &#8220;We hope to invite all attendees to continue to be involved with the Pardee School and its vibrant calendar of events on crucial topics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fallows described some of the contradictions of China&#8217;s international image.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is one of those places where people who visit it like it more than people who have never been there. They respond to the people, to the culture,&#8221; Fallows said. &#8220;The irony is that the disconnect comes from the way China projects power on the world stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span> In addition to working for <\/span><i>The Atlantic<\/i><span>,\u00a0Fallows spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as the editor of <\/span><i>US News &amp; World Report<\/i><span>, and six months as a program designer at Microsoft. He is an instrument-rated private pilot. He is also now the chair in U.S. media at the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Atlantic Monthly contributor and thought leader James Fallows took attendees on a journey to modern China. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411],"tags":[8802,1720,1688,1360,8531,8470,9007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47873,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19472\/revisions\/47873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}