Read this Wall Street Journal article, China’s Long March to the Moon, and see if you can connect the dots when you hear Dr. Andrew Morris’ presentation this Friday. After he speaks to you, then come back here and let’s hear about some of your takeaways.

By the way, Dr. Morris was also kind enough to pass along the following invite:

Two films will be featured in a Taiwan Film Exhibit at Cal Poly 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, in Room 220 in the University Union.

The featured films are “Chocolate Rap” (2006), a film about break dancing and love among twenty-something urban residents of Taipei, and “The Last Rice Farmer” (2005), a documentary about rice farming in Southern Taiwan within the sometimes-harsh realities of the globalized economy. Both films will be screened in Chinese/Taiwanese with English subtitles.

Refreshments will be served between the two films, at noon.

The Cal Poly History Department, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, and Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, are sponsoring the film exhibit. For more information, contact Andrew Morris, associate professor of history, at 756-2815.