EZRA VOGEL HAS A BIRTHDAY

EZRA F. VOGEL 

b. July 11 

Author of the biography of 
DENG XIAOPING 
and other seminal works 
on China and Japan 

More on Ezra Vogel here and here; 
on Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, here and here; 
on China, here; 
on Japan, here 

EZRA VOGEL DISCUSSES "DENG XIAOPING AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA"

EZRA VOGEL

ON HIS MASTER WORK

ON DENG XIAOPING

EZRA F. VOGEL

Author

DENG XIAOPING AND

THE TRANSFORMATION

OF CHINA

Prof. Vogel spoke this evening at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he taught at Harvard for many years (a notice of the event is here). A good source of background information on Vogel's work on the book can be found here, and a number of reviews, here.

More Vogel here; more Deng here.

Tomorrow: the next president of China is due in Washington, D.C.; see here.

CHINA THEN & NOW: GUANGZHOU (CANTON) WALKOVER

CHINA THEN & NOW:

GUANGZHOU

CANTON (GUANGZHOU), 

GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA,

WALKOVER IN 1981

THEN:

Guangdong province was "ONE STEP AHEAD,"

wrote Ezra Vogel.

AND NOW:

According to the New York Times,

"Defying Global Slump, China Has Labor Shortage" --

and one of the places it has hit is Guangzhou (Canton),

the capital of Guangdong.

One of a series

To be published in

"HERE BE GIANTS"