China: A Player or Bystander in the Global Economy

China: A Player or Bystander in the Global Economy

Dan Ben-Canaan

about the speech about the speaker
4.5.2011

Dan Ben-Canaan

Dr. Dan Ben-Canaan is a Professor of Research and Writing Methodology at Heilongjiang University, School of Western Studies in Harbin, China. He is the founder and director of Heilongjiang University’s Sino-Israel Research and Study Center, and Visiting Professor for Postgraduate studies at Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin, China. He is a Hon. Research Fellow at the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Heilongjiang Television China English News.

Prof. Dan Ben-Canaan is the director of the cooperation and exchange program between Heidelberg University in Germany and Heilongjiang University, School of Western Studies in Harbin, as well as coordinator of the joint program Cluster of Excellence research program “Transcultural Processes in a Globalized City – Research on the History of Harbin”.

Dan Ben-Canaan (known as Lin-Yidan in China) is a contributing columnist at the Op-Ed pages of the Chinese ‘Global Times’.

Dan Ben-Canaan, a professor of research and writing methodology at the Heilongjiang University School of Western Studies in Harbin, China, gives a Clinton School lecture about China’s changing role in the global economy. The lecture focuses on China’s use of the Internet as a tool for economic and social development, and its need to accelerate policies to build a favorable environment for Internet economics. This lecture is presented in partnership with the Crain-Maling Center of Jewish Culture at Hendrix College.