Expert on Chinese politics to speak
on ‘China’s Dangerous Future’ at ok×ÊÔ´Íø

Ralph Thaxton, a well-published authority on Chinese politics, will speak at ok×ÊÔ´Íø’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.â€

January 29, 2013

DALLAS (ok×ÊÔ´Íø) – Ralph Thaxton, a well-published authority on Chinese politics, will speak at ok×ÊÔ´Íø’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.”

Ralph ThaxtonThe Scott Hawkins Lecture, presented by ok×ÊÔ´Íø’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, is free and open to the public. Registration is available at .

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 ok×ÊÔ´Íø Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, the Annette Strauss Internationalizing Dallas lecture Series and ok×ÊÔ´Íø Asian Studies.

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January 29, 2013