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China Crossroads and The Georgetown Alumni Club cordially invite you to:

Can We Trust North Korea’s Kim Jung Un?

Sebastien Falletti
Shanghai Correspondent for Le Figaro, Author of La Piste Kim on Kim Jung Un.
Moderated by Arnaud Duval, Author of Le Dernier Testament de Kim Jong Il.

Saturday, November 24th, 2018
16:15pm – 17:30pm

Cafe Sambal
259 Jiashan Lu, Jiashan Market, Block A, No 37, near Jianguo Xi Lu
嘉善路 259 弄 37 号嘉善老市 A 栋, 近建国西路, 地铁九号线嘉善路站

Admission: 100RMB for one drink

16:00 – Doors Open
16:15 – Lecture
17:00 – Q&A
17:30 – Mixer

RSVP to Frank Tsai of Hopkins China Forum (http://www.shanghai-review.org/lecture-series/) at editor@shanghai-review.org.

Join us for a discussion with Sebastien Falletti, Shanghai/Seoul correspondent of Le Figaro, and author of the just-published La Piste Kim, Voyages au Coeur de la Corée du Nord (“Searching for Kim Jong Un: A journey into the Heart of North Korea”). As Kim Jong Un is gearing up for another summit with Donald Trump, Sebastien will look at the rationale behind his diplomatic charm offensive, and whether his denuclearization pledge should be taken seriously. Based on his decade long reporting on the Korean peninsula, he will discuss findings about the family background, education and psychology of Kim; the prospects for peace on the troubled peninsula; and the risks China and the region face if the current North Korea-US relationship breaks down.

Sebastien Falletti, is the Shanghai correspondent for Le Figaro, the leading daily newspaper in France. He has been covering North East Asia for a decade, from Seoul, then Shanghai with a special focus on North Korea, where he travelled several times. His last book La Piste Kim (2018) won applause in the French press, including Le Monde, Le Figaro or Liberation. Sebastien has also published A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea (2016) with defector Eunsun Kim. He has also published Corée du Sud, le Goût du Miracle (2016), which is a personal introduction to South Korea. He has contributed to Jane’s Defence Weekly and other publications including the Financial Times. Before moving to Asia, Sebastien Falletti covered EU affairs as correspondent in Brussels. Sebastien Falletti was born in Paris, and studied at the Sorbonne and London School of Economics.

The Hopkins China Forum and The Georgetown Alumni Club cordially invite you to:

World War II in Europe: The American Experience and the World They Made

Frank Lavin
Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, Former Undersecretary for International Trade, CEO and Founder of Export Now
SAIS ’92 and Georgetown ‘85

Thursday, November 8th, 2018
19:00pm – 20:15pm

Wooden Box
9 Qinghai Lu (just to the South of Nanjing West Road)
青海路 9 号, 近南京西路, 地铁二号线南京西路站

18:45 – Doors Open
19:00 – Lecture
19:45 – Q&A
20:15 – Mixer

RSVP to Frank Tsai of Hopkins China Forum (http://www.shanghai-review.org/lecture-series/) at editor@shanghai-review.org.

In tonight’s talk, the speaker will first discuss his book, Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II (https://www.amazon.com/Home-Front-Battlefront-Teenager-Society-ebook/), which is a history told through the story of his father, combat infantryman Carl Lavin, based on official military histories, conventional history sources, personal letters of the time, and taped recollections. It is a story of ordinary Americans, thrust into a harsh and dangerous world, where G.I.’s grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home – all in the same day. It displays the best and the lowest of the human experience, including examples of heroism, compassion, and sacrifice along with cowardice, pettiness, and plain foolishness. It is the war-time juxtaposition of the trite and horrific; the banal and bizarre that gives this narrative emotional impact.

Through discussion of the book, the speaker will take us back to what it was like for U.S. soldiers to serve in Europe and draw some implications from America’s role in the war for the contemporary world.

Frank Lavin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lavin) is the CEO and founder of Export Now (https://www.exportnow.com/), a U.S. firm that operates e-commerce stores in China for international brands. He has served as Undersecretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Director of White House Political Affairs, and in positions at the Department of Commerce, Department of State, and the National Security Council.

In the private sector, Lavin served in senior finance and management positions in Hong Kong and Singapore with Edelman, Bank of America, and Citibank. He is a columnist for Forbes.com, and co-author of Export Now: Five Keys to Entering New Markets (2011) and Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II (2017), an account of his father’s service in World War II.

He holds a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, M.S. in Chinese from Georgetown University; M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS; and MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Join us for a very special event with the Shubnum Khan, the author of “Onion Tears”.

About the author: Shubnum Khan is a South African Indian author. Her first novel, Onion Tears was published when she was 25 by Penguin and was shortlisted for the Penguin Prize for African writing and long listed for the UJ Debut Fiction Prize. Her focus is South African Indian Muslim women. In 2012 she was selected as the Mail and Guardian’s 200 young South Africans. She holds an MA in English and has taught Media studies at the University of Kwazulu Natal. Currently she is an Artist in Residence working on her second novel at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai.

The event will take place on April 15th.