Source: Charles Reagan, 785-532-6221, reagan@k-state.edu
http://www.k-state.edu/landon
Pronouncer: Zhou Wenzhong is Joe Wuhn Jawng
News release prepared by: Beth Bohn, 785-532-6415, bbohn@k-state.edu
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008
CHINESE AMBASSADOR'S LANDON LECTURE AT K-STATE RESCHEDULED FOR FEB. 11
MANHATTAN -- Chinese Ambassador H.E. Zhou Wenzhong's Landon Lecture at Kansas State University has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, at McCain Auditorium.
Zhou's lecture was originally scheduled for Oct. 10, 2007, but was postponed at his request. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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 so pleased that Ambassador Zhou was able to reschedule his 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.