发展研究系列讲座2009年春学期第七期
The Public Lectures of the Development Studies

主讲人/Speaker：Professor Mike Parnwell
主题/Topic：Back to the future? Alternative development in Thailand
时间/Time：2:00-4:00pm, 6th July 2009
地点/Venue：CIAD004

主讲人简介
Brief introduction of the speaker

Professor Mike Parnwell is presently in South East Asian Geography at the University of Leeds, England, a Geographer specialising on the development process in East and South East Asia. He has worked extensively on several countries of Asia, including China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. His research interests include rural development, rural industrialisation, regional development, rural-urban migration, tourism, urbanisation, sustainable development, localism, Buddhism and alternative development. He has published 8 books and approximately 80 articles on a wide range of development-related topics. He speaks Thai fluently, and is also conversant in Indonesian/Malay.

Other participants:

Miss Ulrike Immler is a final year undergraduate student at the University of Leeds where she is studying Chinese with Business Studies. She joins the research trip in China as a part of her post-graduate and PhD training course in inter-cultural Human Resource Management in China.