EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Research Seminar: U.S.-China Decoupling: Implication for Innovation in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
CBSI-AP Presents US-China Decoupling: Implication for Innovation in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond with Peter Li, Ph.D., Roger Chen, Ph.D., Mary B. Teagarden, Ph.D., Ker Gibbs, and Liang Wang, Ph.D.
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PREVIOUS EVENTS INFORMATION
Out of Gobi: My Story of America and China with Weijian Shan
Hosted by Asia Society and Co-sponsored by CBSI
We are very excited to announce a CBSI Co-sponsored Asia Society event to feature our distinguished USF Alum Dr. Weijian Shan on August 20, 2019, at 11:00 am.
Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America is a powerful memoir and commentary with the potential to reshape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.
Shan, a former hard laborer who is now one of Asia's best-known financiers, is thoughtful, observant, eloquent, and brutally honest, making him well-positioned to tell the story of a life that is a microcosm of modern China, and of how, improbably, that life became intertwined with America. Out of the Gobi draws a vivid picture of raw human energy and the will to succeed against all odds.
Agenda
11:00 AM Weijian Shan Discussion on Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America (Lunch Served)
12:45 PM Book Signing
1:00 PM Conclusion
Location
Sidley Austin LLC, 1001 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Please RSVP and we look forward to seeing you at this event.
The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future
Hosted by Asia Society and Co-sponsored by CBSI
Tue 13 Aug 2019. At 6 - 8:30 p.m.
Bechtel Conference Center
500 Washington St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Tensions between the world’s superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. But between these hubs of high-level politics, an entirely new reality is emerging. The People’s Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, and these interactions make California a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the twenty-first century.
In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections. He follows a celebrated Chinese AI researcher who leaves Google to challenge his former employer from behind the Great Firewall. Sheehan joins a tour bus of wealthy Chinese families shopping for homes in the Bay Area, revealing disgruntled neighbors and raising important questions about California’s own prejudices and perceptions of immigration and the American Dream. Join Asia Society Northern California for a conversation between author Matt Sheehan and Rui Ma, formerly of 500 Startups, for a series of stories about Chinese companies, families, and people from his book.