Edwin Williams, president of TraveLearn, will discuss “China: The Sleeping Giant Awakes” at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program Monday, March 13, sponsored by California State University, Fresno.

Williams’ presentation and a performance by the Fresno Chinese Chorus will be offered twice, at 3 and 5:30 p.m. in the Alice Peters Auditorium of the University Business Center.

Admission is free for Osher members; $20 for others. Nonmembers may attend on a space-available basis, but should call prior to the event. Seats for the 5:30 p.m. session still are available.

Williams is former director of International Studies at Kean University in New Jersey and has traveled to China 12 times since the early 1980s. He has witnessed first-hand China’s economic growth since the inception of its free-market economy.

He was honored as Ambassador of International and Cultural Understanding at the 2550th birthday celebration of Confucius at the philosopher’s birthplace in Qufu, Shandong province.

Another Osher program scheduled for March, a three-part series on “The Odyssey of the Fresno Armenians,” presented by Fresno State lecturer Barlow Der Mugrdechian, is sold out.

To check on ticket availability for the China program, call 559.278.0008.

(Copy by University Communications student-intern Megan Jacobsen.)

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