The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Dr. Paul Dunscomb
Associate Professor of East Asian History, UAA

“2008: China’s Olympic Gamble and Other Spectator Sports in East Asia”

Friday, 1st February, 2008 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 30th January to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Paul Dunscomb is associate professor of East Asian History at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and Acting Director of UAA’s Regional Center of the Asian Studies Development Program. He has graduate degrees from the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Kansas. He is a specialist in modern Japanese history focusing on the domestic political aspects of the Japanese intervention and occupation of Siberia, 1918-1922. His work has appeared in the Military Review, the Journal of Japanese Studies, Asian Studies Newsletter and East-West Connections. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship for study in Japan and co-recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant to lead a study tour of the Russian Far East. Prof. Dunscomb teaches East Asian Civilization, Modern China, Modern Japan as well as specialty courses in the evolution of the Samurai and the history of the Chinese Communist Party.