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The Eagle and the Dragon: Contact and Impasse in Sino-American Relations - Kenneth Young
10:30 AM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - After studying as an undergraduate in China and Paris, Ambassador Kenneth T. Young received his BA. in 1939 from Harvard University, where he specialized in Far Eastern languages and social science. His M.A. was from Harvard university, in international law and relations. After World War II, Ambassador Young served in the State Department as director of the office of Northeast Asian Affairs and then as director of Southeast Asian Affairs. He attended the Japanese Peace Conference, served as Deputy United States Representative at the Panmunjom talks in 1953-54, and was present at the Geneva conference on Korea and Indochina in 1954 and the Summit Conference in 1955.Ambassador Young was a member of the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1952-53 and 1956. During 1961-63, Ambassador Young was Ambassador to Thailand and and United States Representative on the SEATO Council in Bangkok. In 1964 he was United States Representative and chief of Delegation to the annual session of the United Nations economic commission for Asia and the far East. He is now president of the Asia Society, a private, philanthropic organization for promoting Asian-American understanding and cooperation. He has published a number of books and articles on southeast Asia and is now completing a study of "United States Negotiations and contacts with Communist China, 1954-1966" for the Council on Foreign Relations. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Problem of China

Maoism and Chinese Foreign Policy - Robert Scalapino
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Professor Robert Scalapino, chairman of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, is editor of the journal Asian Survey. he is a consultant for the Rockefeller Founadtion. professor Scalapino is widely known and respected for his knowledge of Asian Communism and was one of those experts called to testify at the 1966 United States Senate Foreign Relations committee hearings on United States policy toward China.Part of the World Affairs Series: The Problem of China

Felix Greene's documentary, "China Now"
4:00 PM – Curtiss Auditorium - Documentary Film

Chinese Communist Philosophy and Traditional Confucianism
11:30 AM – 39 Room, Memorial Union - Informal discussion with professor Munro and Miss Roper in the the Memorial Union (Room 39).

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and China's Educational Policy - Donald Munro
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Professor Donald J. Munro has been an assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, since 1964. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1953, in the Department of Philosophy, and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1964 in the Department of Chinese and Japanese. From 1960 through 1962, Professor Munro was a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellow in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, where he did research on classical Chinese philosophy. he spent the academic year 1965-1966 in Hong Kong on a Social Science research grant, studying Chinese Communist ideology and its application to Chinese educational policy.Part of the World Affairs Series: The Problem of China

The Chinese Drama - Hsi Cheng
4:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Professor Hsi Cheng, born in Peking, China, in 1919 is now an associate professor in the Department of Chinese and Oriental Studies at the state University of Iowa. he received his B.A. in 1948 from Yenching University in China and his M. Litt. in 1963 from Cambridge University. Both degrees are in Oriental literature. professor Cheng is the author of several books on the Chinese language and literature. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Problem of China

Education in China Today - Myra Roper
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Miss Myra Roper, an Australian journalist and educator, received her M.A. at Cambridge University in her native England. She has made four visits to China. Her most recent trip took her to china via the Trans-Siberian route during the summer of 1966. She is particularly interested in Chinese education and the arts in China. Miss Roper is the author of "China-The Surprising Country." Part of the World Affairs Series: The Problem of China

A Chinese Communist Children's Film, "The Little Bell"
4:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - A Chinese Communist Children's Film

Religion-in-Life Week Keynote - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was internationally recognized humanist and 30 years old at the time of his visit. He had earned three degrees and received five honorary ones, as well as 37 other major awards and citations. was invited by the Student Religious Council to be the featured speaker during the Religion-in-Life week's events. Fifteen hundred people heard him speak in the Great Hall with various locations inside the Union to accommodate the overflow crowd. The link to Ames Historical Society website about Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit: http://ameshistory.org/content/dr-king-visits-ames-iowa