Book Talk – Dr. Terry Lautz, Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic

Date:

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Time:

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Info

The SCGRC hosted Dr. Terry Lautz, Moynihan Research Fellow at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and former Vice President of the Henry Luce Foundation, for an in-person book discussion of Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic(Oxford University Press, 2022) in conversation with Prof. Andrew Mertha, Director of the SAIS China Global Research Center. In his important book, Americans in China, Dr. Lautz provides a series of biographical portraits of Americans who have lived and worked in China from before the Communist era to the present. The book recounts path breaking experiences and offers unique insights and deeply human perspectives on issues that have shaped American engagement with China.

Event Guests

Terry Lautz

Moynihan Research Fellow, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs - Svracuse University

Terry Lautz (Terrill E. Lautz), former vice president of the Henry Luce Foundation, has served as board chair of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Lingnan Foundation, and the Yale-China Association. He graduated from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and holds MA and PhD degrees from Stanford University, where he was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities.

Dr. Lautz is the author of Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic (Oxford, 2022) and John Birch: A Life (Oxford, 2016). After retiring from the Luce Foundation in 2008, he was visiting professor, interim director of the East Asia Program, and a Moynihan Research Fellow at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School.

Earlier in his career he worked for The Asia Society in New York and Washington, DC, and for the Yale-China Association, based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After college, he served with the US Army’s Medical Service Corps in Vietnam.He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former director of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He also has been a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Colorado College, Columbia University, and Wellesley College.