Ezra Vogel (Harvard), Selling Deng Xiaoping in China and Japan

Moderator: Susan Pharr 
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics

(Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center, and Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School)

Professor Vogel is a distinguished scholar of China, Japan, and U.S.-East Asia relations. His many books include Japan’s New Middle Class (California, 1963), Canton Under Communism (Harvard, 1969), Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (Harvard, 1979); Comeback (Simon & Schuster, 1988), One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong Under Reform (Harvard, 1989), The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (Harvard, 1991), and Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Harvard, 2011). At Harvard, Professor Vogel has served as Director of East Asian Research Center, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Asia Center; as well as Chairman of the undergraduate concentration in East Asian Studies, Council for East Asian Studies, and Harvard Committee to Welcome President Jiang Zemin (1998). Professor Vogel served as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council, and directed the American Assembly on China in November 1996 and the Joint Chinese-American Assembly between China and the United States in 1998. His many awards include the Japan Foundation Prize and the Japan Society Prize.