Stephen M. Young, the U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, will present his lecture, “U.S.-China Relations: The View from Hong Kong,” on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 2 p.m. in Scripps College’s Vita Nova lecture hall room 100. The event is free and open to the public.
Ambassador Young joined the State Department in 1980. Most recently, he was a member of the faculty at National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces, located at Fort McNair in Washington, DC. His most recent overseas assignment was as director of the American Institute in Taiwan. Ambassador Young was U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic from 2003 to 2005; he also served in Beijing and Moscow. Within the State Department, he was the director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs; the director of the Office of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh Affairs; and the director of the Office of Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs. Ambassador Young speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and Russian.
The lecture is co-sponsored by Scripps College’s Dean of Faculty office and Malott Commons Office. Refreshments will be provided. Scripps College’s Assistant Professor of Mathematics Winston Ou arranged for Ambassador Young to speak at the College. A Taiwanese-American, Professor Ou has a keen interest in U.S.-China relations. For more information about this event, please contact Professor Winston Ou at (909) 607-1794.