The Rise of Chinese Science and Technology: 1979 to 2011
When I first traveled to China in 1982 to market English-language scientific, technical and medical books and journals for Academic Press, Inc. -- then a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, a Fortune 500 publishing company -- Chinese science was weak and not appreciated in the West. At that time, China graduated only 19 Ph.D.s each year.
Today, China is the source of more than 10% of the world's scientific and scholarly papers published annually. China now graduates more than 50,000 Ph.D.s each year, more than any other country and ahead of the United States.
On April 7, 2011, the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) invited me to give a webinar presentation on "The Information Industry of China: An Update." Go to http://nfais.org/page/324-china-april-7-2011-webinar and click on the word "slides" to view this presentation.
If you would like to hear the archived recording of this webinar, please contact NFAIS directly at www.nfais.org.
James Chan, Ph.D., President Asia Marketing and Management (AMM) 2014 Naudain StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19146-1317, USA