From: "Charles D'Adamo" <cdadamo-AT-charm.net>
Date: 25 Feb 2008 18:15:53 UTC   (01:15:53 PM in author's locale)
To: "IMC-Announce" <announce-AT-lists.baltimoreimc.org>

Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse presents:

"A Symposium on Giovanni Arrighi's
ADAM SMITH IN BEIJING: LINEAGES OF THE 21st CENTURY"

with critical responses by David Harvey, Xudong Zhang, & Joel Andreas

Wednesday March 5th @ 7PM (doors at 6:30, reception afterwards)
2640 (2640 St. Paul St., Baltimore)
Free, donations welcome

The American economy is in shambles, with a spiraling debt crisis, a
vanishing industrial base, and a plummeting dollar. And, as the
debacle of the occupation of Iraq continues to demonstrate, the US is
finding it increasingly difficult to keep the rest of the world under
its hegemonic thumb through military intervention. Giovanni Arrighi's
new book, Adam Smith in Beijing, situates this global decline of US
power within the context of a epochal shift in the world-system away
from North American dominance and towards Asia. Is China the real
winner of the "War on Terror"? Is it possible to see, in China's
startling emergence as a preeminent economic power on the world stage,
something other than neoliberal capitalism running rampant? What new
possibilities and challenges are in store for struggles against
imperialism and exploitation on a less and less US-centric globe?

GIOVANNI ARRIGHI is professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins
University. His work investigates the historical interplay of
economic and political hegemony in the capitalist world-system. His
recent works include 'The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the
Origins of Our Times' and (with Beverly Silver) 'Chaos and Governance in
the Modern World System.' His current research focuses on trajectories
of development across the global South.

DAVID HARVEY is professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center at
CUNY, and the author of many books examining the links between
capitalism, globalization, and the urban environment, including 'A
Brief History of Neoliberalism,' 'The New Imperialism,' 'Paris: Capital of
Modernity,' and 'Social Justice in the City'. He has also written some
of the definitive works plotting a critical geography of Baltimore,
including the essay "A View from Federal Hill" and the book 'Spaces of
Hope.'

XUDONG ZHANG is professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian
Studies at NYU and one of the preeminent scholars of recent Chinese
cultural politics. He is the author of 'Chinese Modernism in the Era
of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and New Chinese
Cinema' and the forthcoming 'Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: The
Last Decade of China's Twentieth Century,' and was behind recent
translations of the works of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson into
Chinese.

JOEL ANDREAS is professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University,
where he has been investigating the changes in class relations in
China from 1949 to the present. He's also the author of the
bestselling comic-book essay 'Addicted To War.'

Sponsored by the Red Emma's Popular Education Project (PEP Talks).

2640 is a new project of Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, with the
goal of creating an independent platform for political discussion,
education art, and culture. It's located at 2640 St. Paul St. in
Baltimore.

More info:
info-AT-redemmas.org
redemmas.org
redemmas.org/2640

La
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