Lecture Information:

Topic: Health Diplomacy Lecture Series Ⅱ, Understanding Global Health Diplomacy

Speaker: Zhang Qingmin| Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University

Host: Guo Liping | Professor, School of Health Humanities, Peking University

Time: 13:30-15:00

Date: April 22, 2022 (Friday)

Venue: Room 709, Yifu Building, No.38 Xueyuan Rd, Haidian District , Beijing 100191, China.

Language: Chinese

Content Overview: 

Health Diplomacy is a new interdisciplinary research and practice field. In order to help more teachers and students gain a full knowledge of this field, this lecture will present the following four items: first, the relation between diplomacy and health; second, understanding the positioning and features of health diplomacy from a global perspective; third, the introduction of connotation, development and status quo of China’s health diplomacy based on the situation in China; fourth, the impact of COVID-19 on health diplomacy. 

Speaker:

Professor, Dean and doctoral supervisor of Department of Diplomacy, the School of International Studies Peking University. Chief expert of the textbook for Marxist theoretical research and construction projects: China’s Foreign Relations. He has been engaged in teaching and research of Diplomacy and China’s diplomacy. Representative works: China’s Foreign Relations (both English and Chinese versions), U.S. Arms Sales Policy toward Taiwan: A Decision-Making Perspective, Foreign Policy Analysis, China’s Diplomacy in the 40 years since Reform and Opening up. The translations of Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study, Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, Diplomacy in a Globalizing World: Theories and Practices, etc. He was invited to teach China’s Diplomacy in more than ten universities in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania. He was an associate editor of Foreign Affairs and Policy at Oxford University and has been on editorial board of many professional journals at home and abroad such as, The Hague Journal of Policy, Foreign Affairs Review, Quarterly Journal of International Politics, etc.