Future of East Asia
VIEW EVENT DETAILS2015 is a significant year for East Asia and its neighboring countries. Korea and Japan celebrated their 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations; in March, foreign ministers of Korea, Japan, and China held a summit for the first time in 3 years; President Park Geun-Hye of Korea is expected to host the next trilateral leaders summit this fall; China has officially started construction of its section of the eastern gas pipeline route known as the "Power of Siberia"; and President Xi Jinping of China will pay his first formal state visit to the U.S. in September. Additionally, Iran’s recent nuclear deal has been serving as an ideal blueprint for negotiations with North Korea. In this regard, the Asia Society Korea Center and the East Asia Foundation will co-host a special panel discussion titled "Future of East Asia" to explore how the recent events in East Asia will affect its relationship with the U.S., and what we need to do differently in order to achieve global prosperity and stability. The discussion will offer high-level perspectives on the shifts in economics, culture, policy, and security.
Moderator
John Delury
Senior Fellow, Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society
Associate Professor of International Studies at Yonsei University
Panelists
Sung-Joo Han
Global Council member, Asia Society
Former Foreign Minister, Republic of Korea
Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society
Andrei Lankov
Professor of History, Kookmin University
Jin Canrong
Professor for International Relations, Renmin University
Shen Dingli
Professor of International Relations, Fudan University
PARTICIPANTS’ BIO (Alphabetical order)
Andrei Lankov
Lankov was born on July 26, 1963, in Leningrad, Soviet Union (modern-day Saint Petersburg). He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Leningrad State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. He also attended Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung University in 1985.
Following his graduate studies, he taught Korean history and language at his alma mater, and in 1992 went to South Korea for work; he moved to Australia in 1996 to take up a post at the Australian National University and moved back to Seoul to teach at Kookmin University in 2004. Lankov has a DPRK-themed Livejournal blog in Russian with occasional English posts, where he documents aspects of life in North (and South) Korea, together with his musings and links to his publications. He also writes columns for the English-language daily The Korea Times and for Al Jazeera English. Lankov is fluent in Russian, Korean, and English.
Han Sung-Joo
Han Sung-Joo is chairman of the International Policy Studies Institute of Korea (IPSIKOR). He is also the president emeritus at Korea University. Han previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-94), UN secretary general’s special representative for Cyprus (1996-97), a member of the UN Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1999), chairman of the East Asia Vision Group (2000-01), ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States (2003-05), and acting president of Korea University (2002, 2006-07). Han is a graduate of Seoul National University and received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Previously, he taught at City University of New York (1970-78) and was a visiting professor at Columbia University (1986-87) and Stanford University (1992, 1995). He was also a distinguished fellow at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1986-87). His English publications include Korean Diplomacy in an Era of Globalization (1995), Korea in a Changing World (1995), and Changing Values in Asia (1999). He has many publications in Korean, including Nam Gwa Puk, kurigo Sekye (The Two Koreas and the World) (2000).
Jin Canrong
Dr. Jin Canrong is a professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies at the Renmin University of China. He is also a visiting professor at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, in 2003 and 2007, and the “Weilun” Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, in 2006.
His education background includes a BA from Shanghai Fudan University in political science, a MA from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and a PhD from the School of International Studies at Peking University. Before joining Renmin University, he worked for the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) from 1987 to 2002. He has traveled to over 40 countries or regions so far. His studies focus on American politics (US Congress in particular), American foreign policy, Sino-US relations, and China’s foreign policy. His main publications include over 100 academic papers, over 800 articles for mass media, 7 books, and 5 translated books, including Liberal Tradition in America by Louis Hart; Between Hope and History by President Bill Clinton, and Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger. As the first columnist in international politics in mainland China, Dr. Jin wrote for the column “Focusing on America” on World Affairs (a half-monthly), from 1995 to 1998.
His social positions include Vice President of China National Association of International Studies; Vice President, the Pacific Society of China; Senior fellow of China International Institute for Strategic Society; Standing Councilor of China Reform Forum, Adviser for the United Front Department of CPC, Chair Professor of the Forum of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Adviser for the State Oceanic Administration of PRC, Adviser for the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of PRC, etc.
John Delury
John Delury is an Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Yonsei University`s Graduate School of International Studies and Underwood International College in Seoul, South Korea.
Delury is currently a Senior Fellow of Asia Society`s Center on U.S – China Relations, where with Center Director Orville Schell he recently co-authored Wealth and Power: China`s Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Random House, 2013).
He was previously the Associate Director of the Center, where he directed the China Boom Project as well as a task force on economic engagement with North Korea. Prior to joining the Yonsei faculty, Delury taught at Columbia, Brown, and Yale Universities, as well as Peking University in Beijing. His areas of expertise include China and North Korea.
Orville Schell
Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are Wealth and Power, China’s Long March to the 21st Century; Virtual Tibet; The China Reader: The Reform Years; and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders. He has written widely for many magazine and newspapers, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Time, The New Republic, Harpers, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Wired, Foreign Affairs, the China Quarterly, and The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
Schell was born in New York City, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s and earned a Ph.D. (Abd) at the University of California, Berkeley in Chinese History. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s.
He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schell is also the Recipient of many prizes and fellowships, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.
Shen Dingli
Shen Dingli is a professor and Associate Dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies. He has taught international security, China-U.S. relations, and China’s foreign policy in China, the U.S., and the Semester at Sea program. His research and publication covers such topics as China-U.S. security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and nonproliferation, and foreign and defense policy of China and the U.S.. He is Vice President of the Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, the Shanghai Association of International Studies, the Shanghai Association of American Studies, and the Shanghai UN Research Association. Shen received his Ph.D. in Physics from Fudan in 1989 and did his post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989 to 1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996, and in 2002 advised then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on strategic planning of his second term. He is on the Global Council of Asia Society and was appointed by the Shanghai Municipality as Shanghai’s Conference Ambassador. He has co-edited seventeen books and published some 2000 papers and articles worldwide.