Armstrong Atlantic State University Presents Free Lecture on China

Savannah, GA—January 6, 2004—Hear about China’s past and present in a free lecture, China: The Sleeping Giant Wakes, from Dr. Edwin Williams. Formerly a college professor and director of International Studies, Williams currently serves as president of TraveLearn, Inc. He will discuss present day China at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 29, in room 110 of Solms Hall at Armstrong Atlantic State University. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Williams has traveled to China nine times in the past 20 years and has witnessed firsthand China's spectacular economic growth since the inception of a "free-market economy" in the early '80s. He was in China a few months before the 1989 uprising in Tienamen Square; he was honored as "An Ambassador of International and Cultural Understanding at the 2,550 Birthday Celebration of Confucius at his birthplace in Qufu, Shandong Province. He also traveled on the Yangzte River during the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1999. He also was in China during the 16th Party Congress of the Communist Party that announced a change in leadership and also brought successful capitalist entrepreneurs into the party. Most recently, he observed the newly completed Three Gorges Dam Project, China's most ambitious project since the Great Wall.

For more information about the China lecture or AASU Learning Vacations for Adults, contact the Department of Professional & Continuing Education at 912.927.5322 or by email at conted@mail.armstrong.edu.