From China’s Rise to The China Dream

Abstract:
Since the beginning of the 21st century, China has attained prominence economically, politically and strategically at a faster rate than any other rising power in world history. It has happened more abruptly than anyone had been able to foresee, including China’s own leaders. Consequently, it has faced Beijing with the twin challenges of defining a new role in world affairs and of presenting this new role to the global public. In order to achieve these objectives, both the substance and the style of China’s diplomacy had to be adjusted, sometimes dramatically so. Peter Harmsen watched this development up close as a foreign correspondent living and working in Beijing without interruption from 1998 to 2009. Hear him talk about his years in China when it was catapulted from relative obscurity to the status of aspiring super power.
 
About the speaker:
Peter Harmsen, a foreign correspondent in East Asia for more than two decades, is now based in Denmark. Peter Harmsen worked with French news agency Agence France-Presse for 15 years, including nearly a decade in Beijing and four years as bureau chief in Taipei. Peter Harmsen also reported from East Asia for Bloomberg News, The Economist Intelligence Unit and Financial Times as well as several Danish media. Peter Harmsen is a M.A. in political science and Russian from Aarhus University and studied history at the National University of Taiwan in Taipei, as well as Mandarin Chinese at Taiwan Normal University. He is the author of two books on China’s modern history:  Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City, 2015, and Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, 2013.

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