The John M. Pfau Library at Cal State San Bernardino was one of the venues nationwide for the 10thannual CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections that featured a live webcast with Henry Kissinger, arguably the face of U.S. foreign policy from 1969 to 1977.
The free Oct. 18 event, held in PL-5005, was sponsored by by the World Affairs Council Inland Southern California, which is based at the university, and the CSUSB Modern China Lecture Series.
After Kissinger’s presentation, Jeremy Murray, director of CSUSB’s Modern China Lecture Series and an assistant professor of history, led a local discussion on “Diversity in How We Perceive Each Other: Impact on U.S.-China Relations.”
Kissinger — who served as national security adviser and secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, has been credited as being instrumental in opening diplomatic relations with communist China in the 1970s.
For more information on the CSUSB event or the World Affairs Council Inland Southern California, contact Margaret “Peg” Hill, program chair for the World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California, at (909) 537-5648.
For more information on the CSUSB Modern China Lecture Series, contact Jeremy Murray at jmurray@csusb.edu.
The next program in the series will be “Policing Madness in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing,” a guest lecture by Emily Baum, an assistant professor of modern Chinese history at UC Irvine, scheduled for Nov. 3.