<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>Hope you all had an enjoyable Spring break!</div>
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<div>We welcome you back this week with Prof. Perkins on the impact of the global crisis on China. Prof. Perkins is a very prominent economist and expert on China. Please note that this week the talk is from 4-5:30pm on Thursday instead of our usual time from 6-7:30pm due to a forum event. Please kindly forward the announcement to your respective groups.</div>
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<div>Thank you very much!</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Carol Yu</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: right 6.5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Topic: </span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Global Crisis and China's Short- and Long-Term Growth Prospects</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: right 6.5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Speaker:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Dwight Perkins, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. Previous positions include </span><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Associate Director of the East Asian (now Fairbank) Research Center. Professor Perkins is an expert in the economies of East and Southeast Asia.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 方正细等线简体"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">April 9:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Marty Whyte, </span><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Professor Martin Whyte, Harvard University. Expert in sociological study of contemporary China and post-Communist transitions. “</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality in Contemporary China.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">April 16:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lobsang Sangay, </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Research Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
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