Looking Forward: Guest Lineup on Conversations

At last! Friday has arrived! Aren't you glad?

Remember to tune-in tomorrow morning, Saturday, May 14 for our next show at 10:30 a.m. Eastern USA Time/ 10:30 p.m. China Time. 

You're not in our local listening area? Not a problem -go to WGCH.com everywhere and listen! 

Ms. Amy Needle, President and CEO of Historic Philadelphia is my guest on Saturday, May 14. Franklin Square in the City of Brotherly Love is illuminated each night with the first-ever Chinese Lantern Festival in the Northeastern USA. She is my special guest on tomorrow's Conversations segment. See: http://www.historicphiladelphia.org

In the weeks ahead we're looking forward to welcoming an assortment of exciting, interesting guests on Conversations. They include:

Professor Meixu Huang of East China Normal University (ECNU) will be joining us from Shanghai to discuss the internationalization of Chinese higher education. ECNU is one of China's leading universities with a profound culture and high reputation, attaching significant importance to the internationalization of its development and has established strategic cooperative partnerships with many world-renowned universities. See: http://www.ied.ecnu.edu.cn/index_en.asp

You'll be meeting Mr. Eric Jay Dolin, historian and author of When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail. He will be sharing with us the complex history of trade between the newly-independent United States of America and the Chinese Empire as covered in his book. See: 

http://www.amazon.com/When-America-First-Met-China/dp/0871406896

Professor, Poet and Author Afaa Weaver of Simmons College in Massachusetts will also be my special guest. Recently appearing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, he is a man of many interesting paths and experiences -including a Fulbright appointment as a scholar to National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts. Professor Weaver has conducted two international conferences on contemporary Chinese poetry at Simmons College. In 2005 he was awarded a gold fellowship medal from the Chinese Writers' Association in Beijing. Dr. Henry Louis Gates of Harvard University has described Professor Weaver as "...one of the most significant poets writing today." Ed Ochester, professor emeritus at University of Pittsburgh has said Professor Weaver is "...the African American successor to Walt Whitman." We'll learn about Professor Weaver's journeys and his Plum Flower Trilogy and more. See: http://www.simmons.edu/Faculty/Afaa-Weaver

Mr. James B. Heimowitz is the president of the China Institute in America in New York City. Founded in 1926 by a group of distinguished American and Chinese educators, the Institute's mission seeks to advance a deeper understanding of China through its programs in education, business, culture and the arts in the belief that cross-cultural understanding strengthens our global community. Its new headquarters in Lower Manhattan has been the setting for a lecture series I've been attending on China's greatest emperors. See: http://www.chinainstitute.org

In the weeks ahead these amazing personalities and many others will enrich our journey of understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture and the dazzling nations of the Pacific Rim. We'll continue to have our other show features such as Paths to the Past and the weekly Confucius Moment, too!

Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim is made possible by the program's title-sponsor, Beijing AmBridge Culture Development, Ltd., and by CEO Offices and Penang Grill, both in Greenwich, Connecticut USA.