Book talk and Reception with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister, will discuss his new book, On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World (Oxford University Press, September 2024). Ambassador Rudd’s book argues that there have been large shifts in China’s ideological worldview under Xi Jinping, creating a new form of “Marxist-Leninist Nationalism” which informs Beijing’s approach to politics, economics, and foreign policy.

Speakers

The Hon. Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. In March 2023, Kevin Rudd assumed his role as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States in Washington DC. Kevin is recognized as a leading analyst of China and, prior to his ambassadorship, served as the inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York from 2015. In 2020, he was appointed President and CEO of the Asia Society globally and, in 2022, he founded the Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.

Lulu C. Wang, CBS ’83 (moderator), is the CEO and Chair of Tupelo Capital Management, which she founded in 1998. Prior to that, Ms. Wang was a director and executive vice president of Jennison Associates Capital Corporation for 10 years. While at Jennison, she managed major funds for endowments, pensions and mutual funds. Before joining Jennison Associates in 1988, she served as senior vice president and managing director at Equitable Capital Management, responsible for portfolio management, research, and trading of public equities.

Introductions by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Dorothy Borg Associate Professor of the History of American-East Asian Relations, Department of History. Professor Nguyen specializes in the study of the United States in the world, with spatial focus on Southeast Asia and temporal interest in the Cold War. She is co-founder of Vietnam studies at Columbia, and the author of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, which won the Society for Military History (SMH) Edward M. Coffman Prize, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Stuart L. Bernath Prize, the UKY Department of History Alice S. Hallam Prize, was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize, and earned her an invitation to participate in the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.

5pm-6pm: Book talk

6pm-7pm: Reception

This event is restricted to CUID holders only. Registration information to come.