Expert on Chinese politics to speak
on ‘China’s Dangerous Future’ at ˿Ƶ
Ralph Thaxton, a well-published authority on Chinese politics, will speak at ˿Ƶ’s McCord Auditorium in Dallas Hall at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, on “China’s Dangerous Future: Sources of Instability and the Crisis of Communist Party Rule.”
DALLAS (˿Ƶ) – Ralph Thaxton, a well-published authority on Chinese politics, will speak at ˿Ƶ’s McCord Auditorium in Dallas Hall at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, on “China’s Dangerous Future: Sources of Instability and the Crisis of Communist Party Rule.”
Thaxton is a professor of politics at Brandeis University and an expert on Chinese politics, international relations of East Asia, comparative revolutions, and comparative democratic movements. His publications include Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China and China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World. Thaxton received his PhD in Political Science from University of Wisconsin.
The lecture is sponsored by ˿Ƶ Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, the Annette Strauss Internationalizing Dallas lecture Series and ˿Ƶ Asian Studies.
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