Professor Zhongjie Lin is one of several international scholars who has been invited to present his research at the "Japanese Cities in a Global Context" Symposium, February 26-27, 2012, at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Professor Lin will be speaking on the global impact of Japanese metabolism. This event is sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College, East Asian Studies Department at Haverford College, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at Swarthmore College.