{"665605":{"#nid":"665605","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CANCELED: China Research Center Memoir Series \u2013 Crossing Borders: A Memoir by John Garver","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis is the first book in the China Research Center\u0026rsquo;s newly launched memoir series. The Center helps to publish China-related memoirs by scholars around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn W. Garver, professor emeritus in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, discusses his memoir \u003Cem\u003ECrossing Borders: The Making of an American Asian Specialist,\u003C\/em\u003E a thought-provoking and personal account of his life that lead to him becoming an expert on China\u0026rsquo;s foreign relations.\u0026nbsp;Garver\u0026rsquo;s memoir traces his evolution from a 1960s Student for a Democratic Society radical committed to socialist revolution to an American patriot trying to understand and explain China\u0026rsquo;s quest for wealth and power. Several years of encounters with variants of dictatorship in the USSR and Eastern Europe, China including both Taiwan and Mainland China, and Burma, shaped his rethinking of United States global containment. Over a career of 30\u0026nbsp;years at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Garver evolved from a revolutionary activist surveilled by the FBI to a leading academic authority on China\u0026rsquo;s foreign relations, including Sino-Soviet\/Russian, Sino-Indian, and Sino-Iranian relations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGarver\u0026rsquo;s book brings to light the shifting geopolitics throughout recent history that have shaped China\u0026rsquo;s position within the global political landscape through the lens of one who has traveled and studied in much of Asia to gain firsthand knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Emeritus John W. Garver\u2019s new book \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d follows the author\u2019s academic journey to becoming an expert on China\u2019s foreign policies and its impact on the global scale."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2023-02-08 19:09:05","changed_gmt":"2023-02-13 21:38:08","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-02-16T09:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-02-16T10:45:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-02-16T10:45:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-02-16 14:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-02-16 15:45:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-02-16 15:45:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"665604":{"id":"665604","type":"image","title":"China Research Center Memoir Series","body":null,"created":"1675882335","gmt_created":"2023-02-08 18:52:15","changed":"1675882335","gmt_changed":"2023-02-08 18:52:15","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251720","name":"China Research Center Memoir Series 1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/China%20Research%20Center%20Memoir%20Series%201.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/China%20Research%20Center%20Memoir%20Series%201.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2113103,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/China%20Research%20Center%20Memoir%20Series%201.png?itok=7Uf9nPfc"}}},"media_ids":["665604"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChris McDermott\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nchris.mcdermott@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}