RUNDOWN

5:45 pm    Registration
6:00 pm    Opening Remarks
6:05 pm    Dialogue
6:35 pm    Q&A
6:55 pm    Closing Remarks
7:00 pm    Networking Drinks

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Asia Society Hong Kong Center is proud to present a conversation with Li Cheng, professor of political science and founding director of the Centre on the Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong, hosted by Ronnie Chan, Chairman of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, and S. Alice Mong, Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center.

After a long and distinguished career as director of Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center in Washington, Professor Li has recently taken up a new role at HKU, bringing to Hong Kong his keen insights into Beijing, Washington, and Sino-US relations. Join Asia Society Hong Kong Center as Professor Li discusses his views on the state of Sino-US relations after the visits of several high-level US officials to Beijing, and where the relationship is headed in the next few years.

Li Cheng is professor of political science and founding director of the Centre on the Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Li’s research areas include the transformation of political leaders, the Chinese middle class, technological development in China, Sino-U.S. relations, and global governance. Li is the author and editor of 17 books, including more recently Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement, The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China, and Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era.

Prior to joining HKU, Li served as director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center, where he remains a nonresident senior fellow. Dr. Li is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto, a nonresident fellow at Yale University’s Paul Tsai China Center, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Li received an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University.

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