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Executive Roundtable on Agents of Subversion with John Delury

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The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China

Agents of Subversion

 

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Experience a riveting tale of espionage, subversion, and political intrigue in Asia Society Northern California's (ASNC) exclusive Executive Roundtable on Agents of Subversion. Join us on Thursday March 30, 2023, from 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Pacific in Silicon Valley, for an off-the-record discussion with John Delury, Senior Fellow at Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, as he reveals the harrowing story of John T. Downey's imprisonment by Mao Zedong's government for two decades. Delury's groundbreaking research on this covert mission into Manchuria will offer insights into the futility of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao and highlight the damage it did to American political life. Moderated by ASNC Advisory Council Member, Orville Schell, this private event is exclusively for Innovator, Groundbreaker, Advisory Council, and Board Members. Join us for lunch, and be a part of a compelling discussion that explores the dark side of U.S.-China relations.


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John Delury, Professor of Chinese Studies, Yonsei University

John Delury

John Delury is Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), where he serves as chair of the Program in International Cooperation. He is also chair of the undergraduate Program in International Studies at Yonsei’s Underwood International College (UIC), and founding director of the Yonsei Center on Oceania Studies.

He is the author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century, and is writing a book about US-China relations in the early Cold War. Based in Seoul since 2010, his articles can be found in journals such as Asian Survey, Late Imperial China, and Journal of Asian Studies, his commentaries appear in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Washington Post, and 38 North, and he contributes book reviews for the quarterly journal Global Asia, where he is associate managing editor.
John is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea; he is also Pacific Century Institute board member, Asia Society senior fellow, National Committee on American Foreign Policy leadership council member, and Center on Strategic and International Studies adjunct fellow. He is a member of the Republic of Ireland’s foreign affairs advisory network and is invited to offer his analysis on East Asian affairs with government, think tank, corporate, and civil society organizations globally.
Professor Delury received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University.
 

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Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Vice President, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society

Orville Schell

Asia Society Northern California Council Member Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Vice President 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 15 books, 10 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, The New Yorker, Time, The New Republic, Harpers, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Wired, Foreign Affairs, The China Quarterly, 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 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, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.

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