China and the West

Timothy Cheek ist Direktor des Centre for Chinese Research der University of British Columbia.

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman ist Mitglied des Editorial Board der Monograph series on Song history der Hebei University Press.

Wang Gungwu ist Mitglied des Editorial Board von Monde chinois.

Timothy Cheek ist Organisator der Konferenz Public intellectuals and modern China an der East China Normal University in Shanghai.

Nicola Di Cosmo ist Board Member des Council for Inner Asia and China der Association for Asian Studies. (Vorsitzender 2006-2007).

Keating, Geoffrey. Remarks by the Consul General of Ireland at the Commemoration of the 17th anniversary of the visit of George Bernard Shaw to Shanghai.
http://www.ceibs.edu/ase/Documents/arts/SunYatSen-Shaw/GK-E.htm.
In 1933 George Bernard Shaw came to Shanghai for one day. The famous Irish writer and Nobel prize laureate came to this house to have lunch as a guest of Mme Song Qingling.
This visit received great publicity in Shanghai at the time because of the international celebrity of the writer. It is also an event which has been immortalised through the record of the visit by one of China’s literary giants, Lu Xun. Today we will have the opportunity to listen to that penetrating account.
To read Lu Xun’s account I am particularly pleased to welcome Professor Nicholas Grene, head of the English Department in Trinity College Dublin, who is an expert on Shaw and who has come to Shanghai for this commemoration.
At that lunch Shaw met Lu Xun, Cai Yuanpei and Lin Yutang. That brief meeting was the most significant contact in the 20th century between an Irish writer and thinker with Chinese writers and thinkers. I have no doubt that this century will see the development of many more intellectual and cultural exchanges and much closer contact.
In the modern Shanghai of today, it is hard to believe that a mere seventy years ago, Shanghai still had its international concessions and the city was under threat from both foreign and internal forces. The visit of Shaw had a symbolic value as a gesture of solidarity with the people of Shanghai at a time of difficulty and danger.
Today in a Shanghai that is at peace, open to the world and growing in prosperity, we can celebrate the visit as a unique intellectual encounter between east and west. I am delighted for this reason to be joined today by Professor Alfredo Pastor, Dean of the China Europe International Business School and the Chairman of the Academia Sinica Europaea, a body which seeks to promote better understanding between China and Europe. Please welcome him.

Lynn T. White ist Honory Professor des Centre of Asian Studies der University of Hong Kong.

Hans Kühner ist apl. Professor für Sinologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Kwong-loi Shun ist Mitglied des Board of Consulting Editors der Encyclopedia of Chinese philosophy.

Günter Wohlfart macht einen Forschungsaufenthalt in Shanghai und Hangzhou.

Donald S. Lopez ist Mitglied des Editorial Board der Etudes mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines.

Sherman Cochran ist Direktor des China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program der Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y.

David Shambaugh ist Berater für China der Battelle Laboratories und der Deutschen Bank.

Madeleine Zelin ist Mitglied des Special Committee on the Alumni University der Columbia University.

Eberhard Sandschneider ist Direktor des Forschungsinstituts der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik.

Mei Tsu-lin ist Visiting Professor an der Stanford University, Calif.

Mario Sabattini erhält den Chinese Language and Culture Friendship Award der People's Republic of China.

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard ist Professor of International Business in Asia/China, Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School.

Theodore Huters ist Gastprofessor an der Nankai-Universität in Tianjin.

Peter N. Gregory ist Vorsteher des Department of Religions des Smith College, Northampton, Mass.