China Lunchtime Seminar
The lunchtime seminar series offers an informal venue for visiting academics and practitioners to present their expertise on China-related issues to the Fairbank Center community.


Monday, November 16, 2009            12:15 pm

Sino-Hungarian Cooperation in Pursuit of Economic Reforms
Peter Vamos, Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Peter Vamos will be discussing the formal and informal cooperation that went on between China and Hungary as they pursued economic reforms in the 1980s. Drawing on declassified material from both Beijing and Budapest, he will trace the extensive cooperative links that developed under the auspices of Deng Xiaoping and Janos Kadar. He also will briefly discuss the impact of that cooperation on China's economic policies today.

Peter Vamos is one of the leading Hungarian academic specialists on China. Having been educated at the University of London and Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, and having received additional language training at universities in China, Taiwan, and Russia, he is currently a senior research fellow in Chinese Studies at the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has held numerous visiting fellowships, most recently at the Institute of Sinology at the University of Heidelberg.

Location: CGIS South, Room S153
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: lkluz@fas.harvard.edu

Co-Sponsor

Davis Center for Eurasian Studies

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