Three-time Pulitzer winning journalist and columnist Thomas L. Friedman will speak about his new book That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back, which he co-wrote with Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum. The book analyzes the four great challenges America faces -globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and a pattern of excessive energy consumption.

4 pm, Sept 7. Shanghai Gallery of Art, 3F, 3 Zhongshan Road E1, Shanghai. 021-5350 0059.