China Hands

Madelyn Ross is President Emeritus of the US-China Education Trust (USCET) and was one of the first American students in China following normalization, studying at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1979-1980. Before coming to USCET, she was at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) as the Executive Director of SAIS China and Associate Director of China Studies. She did similar work at George Mason Un...

Madelyn Ross is President Emeritus of the US-China Education Trust (USCET) and was one of the first American students in China following normalization, studying at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1979-1980. Before coming to USCET, she was at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) as the Executive Director of SAIS China and Associate Director of China Studies. She did similar work at George Mason Un...

Geoffrey (Geoff) Newman is an expert in business development in the aerospace industry, linking China, the Asia Pacific, and the United States. During his studies as the first exchange student from Columbia University at Peking University in 1980, he conducted research in collaboration with the daughter of one of the first Chinese students at Columbia University on the life of her father. 

Afterwards working as one of the ...

Geoffrey (Geoff) Newman is an expert in business development in the aerospace industry, linking China, the Asia Pacific, and the United States. During his studies as the first exchange student from Columbia University at Peking University in 1980, he conducted research in collaboration with the daughter of one of the first Chinese students at Columbia University on the life of her father. 

Afterwards working as one of the ...

Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading Chinese nongovernmental think tank. Previously, Dr Wang held various Fellowships at leading American institutions like Harvard University and Brooking Institution and Adjunct Professorships at leading Chinese universities like Peking and Tsinghua University.

The 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index by the University of Penns...

Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading Chinese nongovernmental think tank. Previously, Dr Wang held various Fellowships at leading American institutions like Harvard University and Brooking Institution and Adjunct Professorships at leading Chinese universities like Peking and Tsinghua University.

The 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index by the University of Penns...

As one of China's leading experts on Sino-American relations and US Security & Foreign policy, Da Wei is the Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University, where he is also a Professor at the Department of International Relations of the School of Social Sciences. Prof. Da also led one of the first Chinese student delegations to the United States, which he extensively covers on...

As one of China's leading experts on Sino-American relations and US Security & Foreign policy, Da Wei is the Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University, where he is also a Professor at the Department of International Relations of the School of Social Sciences. Prof. Da also led one of the first Chinese student delegations to the United States, which he extensively covers on...

Frank Hawke was amongst the first American exchange students to China, after which he had a long and distinguished career in banking, finance, and consultancy in Asia. More recently, he was the previous Director of the China Program for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

Prior to his exchange with Peking University in 1979, Frank completed his BA in Economics and MA in Political Science at Stanford Unive...

Frank Hawke was amongst the first American exchange students to China, after which he had a long and distinguished career in banking, finance, and consultancy in Asia. More recently, he was the previous Director of the China Program for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

Prior to his exchange with Peking University in 1979, Frank completed his BA in Economics and MA in Political Science at Stanford Unive...

Frank Hawke was amongst the first American exchange students to China, after which he had a long and distinguished career in banking, finance, and consultancy in Asia. More recently, he was the previous Director of the China Program for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

Prior to his exchange with Peking University in 1979, Frank completed his BA in Economics and MA in Political Science at Stanford Unive...

Joining us today is Andrew Andreasen, the Resident Director of the Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University and previous Executive Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. 

One of the first American exchange students to China, Andrew sailed with the United States Merchant Marine Corps before attending Stanford University for his MA and PhD in Linguistics and East Asia ...