Source: Charles Reagan, 785-532-6221, reagan@k-state.edu
Landon Lectures: http://www.k-state.edu/landon
News release prepared by: Cheryl May, 785-532-6415, may@k-state.edu
Friday, August 17, 2007
CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO SPEAK AT LANDON LECTURE PODIUM IN OCTOBER
MANHATTAN -- Chinese Ambassador H.E. Zhou Wenzhong will give a Landon Lecture in October. His lecture, the 150th in the prestigious series, will begin at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in McCain Auditorium.
Zhou, whose official title is ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United States, was named to his current post in 2005.
"We are honored to have Ambassador Zhou come to Kansas State University to present a Landon Lecture," said Charles Reagan, associate to the president and chair of the Landon Lecture Series. "He joins Saudi ambassador Prince Turki Al-Faisal, who spoke Jan. 26, 2007, and Japanese ambassador Ryozo Kato, who spoke Oct. 18, 2005, in bringing the views of their countries to the Landon podium."
Previously Zhou served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has held a number of prestigious posts during his career, including Minister of the Embassy to the United States, ambassador to Australia, Barbados and concurrently to Antigua and Barbuda.
Born in Jiangsu Province in August 1945, he joined the Beijing Diplomats Service Bureau in 1970, where he worked until 1973, when he went to the United Kingdom for advanced studies at the University of Bath and London School of Economics.