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Mark Frazier, author of The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay, talks to NCUSCR Vice President Jan Berris about his new book and the two cities that form its comparative poles. Mr.

What do patterns of political contention look like? Over the course of the twentieth century, protests and social movements in Shanghai and Bombay changed with the commodification of urban land.

At the National Committee's annual Gala Dinner, President Stephen Orlins delivered remarks on the organization's mission, as well as the current trajectory of U.S.-China relations. Recorded 11/14/19.

Leading Chinese and American economists discuss China's economic outlook for 2020 and beyond.

In 1971, when a junior U.S. diplomat decided to take temporary leave from her diplomatic post in Hong Kong, it barely dawned on her that a year would turn into a lifetime. Forty-eight years later, Jan Berris, vice president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, reminisces about a career that has provided her a front-row seat to chapters of history filled with drama and tumult.

At the National Committee's annual Gala Dinner, Dr. Henry Kissinger spoke extemporaneously on the state of U.S.-China relations, reflecting on the achievement of diplomatic normalization forty years ago. Recorded 11/14/19.