Posted on Apr 30, 2004

Megan
Ferry, Luce
Junior Professor of Chinese, spoke on “Gender, Commodity
Culture, and Transnational Capital in Contemporary China” at the 20th annual
Mansfield Conference on Globalization in China at the Mansfield
Center in Missoula, Montana. Other speakers included China officers for the Ford Foundation, Human Rights Watch,
World Wildlife Federation and scholars in environmental and political sciences
on NGOs and government policy. The Mansfield
Center, founded to honor Mike Mansfield, former senator and
ambassador to Japan under the Carter and Reagan administrations, is devoted to
highlighting the economic, cultural, and political relationships between the
Asia-Pacific region and the U.S.