James Kynge presents:
China Shakes the World

Venue:	Music Room, the Capital Club, 50th Floor, Capital Mansion, 
Xinyuan South Rd, Beijing
	Please note:
¢Ù.	Jeans or athletic clothing are not allowed
¢Ú.	Mobile phones are not permitted to be used in the Club Dining Rooms
Date:	Thursday, 7th September, 2006 
Time:	6:00pm-8:00pm
Cost:	150 Rmb Members 250 Rmb Non Members

In early 2004, slowly at first but with gathering velocity, manhole covers began to 
disappear from streets around the world. In Ulaanbaatar, someone got out of a taxi 
and fell into a hole. In Chicago, 100 manhole covers disappeared in a month. In 
Scotland, there was the "Great Drain Robbery". Thieves everywhere, working under 
the cover of darkness, had the same idea: they levered up the covers and sold them 
as scrap to feed the demand of an industrialising China.
The manhole episode describes one of the first palpable expressions of the 
international pull of China's appetite. To hear more on this subject and about 
other displacements from a rising China, come and listen to James Kynge introduce 
his new book, "China Shakes the World" (Weidenfled and Nicolson, 2006). Kynge, who 
spent 12 years out of a 20-year journalistic career reporting from China, provides 
insights from his on-the-ground reporting in the US, Europe and Asia to isolate 
trends from China's global impact and raise the overarching question:"Can the world 
absorb China's rise?".

Speaker: Mr. James Kynge, Chief Representative, Pearson Group (China).
 
James Kynge has spent 20 years as a journalist in Asia, covering many of the 
events and trends that have helped mould the region into its current form. Posted 
in Japan, China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Malaysia and Taiwan, he spent a decade 
working for Reuters and a decade for the Financial Times, latterly as the FT's 
China Bureau Chief for seven years until 2005. He is the recipient of several 
awards for journalism, including a Business Journalist of the Year award (London) 
2004. 

He now lives in Beijing with Lucy, three children and a dog called Genghis.

Drinks and snacks will be served.

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