"Notes from a Cautious Pessimist: Law in Today's China"

John Pomfret, former Beijing Bureau Chief and present Los Angeles Bureau Chief of The Washington Post

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
3:30 p.m.
Room 250 Hutchins Hall

John Pomfret was raised in New York City and educated at Stanford and Nanjing Universities. He has been a foreign correspondent for 15 years, covering big wars and small in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Iraq, southwestern Turkey and northeastern Iran. Mr. Pomfret spent seven years covering China -- once in the late 1980s during the Tiananmen Square protests (when he was expelled from the country) and then from 1998 until the end of 2003 as The Washington Post's Bureau Chief based in Beijing. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborne Elliot Award for the best coverage of Asia by the Asia Society.

John Pomfret's first book, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, was recently published by Henry Holt.