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The 1990 Institute is a San Francisco- based not-for-profit organisation with a mission to broaden understanding and build trust between the people of the United States and China through education, philanthropy and collaboration. The Institute has had nearly three decades of impact with programs both within China and the United States and is currently managed by academic, business and community leaders.〔http://1990institute.org/〕 == History == Known for contributions to China's modernization and fostering stronger U.S.- China relations, the 1990 Institute was officially founded in 1990 by a volunteer group of prominent leaders in the community, education and business sectors. The Founding Chairman was C.B. Sung, then Chairman of Unison Group, who brokered nearly 40 Sino-foreign joint ventures in China. The Founding President was Dr. Hang-Sheng Cheng, then Director of the Center for Pacific Basin Studies at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. Other notable early co-founders include Senator Adlai Stevenson III; James Luce; Robert Scalpino, the National Committee of U.S.- China Relations's first chairman; the former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank Linda Tsao Yang; Roz Koo, founding President of Self-Help for the Elderly; and architect Billy Lee. For over 25 years, the Institute has sought to meet the changing Sino- U.S. needs relative to the times. It began in the 1990's as a think tank dedicated to the examination of current issues in China and produced books and issue papers such as ''China's Economic Reform'' by Walter Galenson, which was presented to China's President Jiang Zemin, and ''Fiscal Policy in China Taxation and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations'' by Roy W. Bahl. In addition, it sponsored conferences and symposia on various topics such as the reform of state-owned enterprise governance in China and Women, Leadership & Sustainability. The Institute then expanded its range of its activities to become an action-oriented think tank in the 2000's, setting out to improve the educational opportunities for girls, enhancing cross-cultural communications, and launching direct assistance programs and philanthropy initiatives in China through microfinance and environmental initiatives, and school construction. In the 2010's, the Institute slowly gravitated its focus to running national education and cross-cultural programs in the United States. Noting a series of surveys that had shown significant perception gaps between Americans and Chinese, inaccurate cultural portrayals of each country and its people from widespread media sources, and a pressing need to contribute to the world's most important bilateral relationship of the 21st Century, the 1990 Institute developed its "CHINA NOW" initiatives to create more learning opportunities about contemporary China. Its U.S.-based "CHINA NOW" educational initiatives features youth exchange programs, online video contests, and teacher training workshops and lesson plan contests on modern China material. In addition, with the goal of building a community of U.S.-China thought leaders, 1990 launched its CHINA NOW Speaker Series, hosting prominent speakers including Hank Paulson, Brian Yang of Alibaba, and Hudson Yang from ''Fresh Off the Boat.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The 1990 Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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