Washington National Cathedral will host a special program exploring the dramatic shifts underway in China with keynote speaker Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer and activist who escaped house arrest in northeast China and took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing before obtaining a student visa to enter the United States. The planned event entitled “In Search of China’s Soul: Money, Politics, and the Pressure for Social Change” is this year's Ignatius Program, scheduled on January 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cathedral nave.
The panel will include: Jerome Cohen, a law professor at NYU and one of America's foremost experts on China and Chinese law, Cheng Li, director of research and a senior fellow at the Brookings John L. Thornton China Center, and Dorinda Elliott, Global Affairs Editor of Conde Nast Traveler and editor at large at ChinaFile, the Asia Society's new China website. Moderating the panel will be James Fallows, national correspondent at The Atlantic.
