Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Convention of Paris

author: Zhou Hanmin, et al.

price:RMB 42.00

isbn:7-5439-2957-0

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introduction:

IN THIS special edition of the Bulletin and on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Convention, signed in Paris on 22nd November 1928, the International Bureau of Exhibitions evokes its history, evolution and adaptation over the years and its future.

Chapter one, “Origins of the Convention”, an excerption from a book originally published in 1936, by Mr. Maurice Isaac, the first Director of the International Exhibitions Bureau between 1931 and 1939, explains the reasons to constitute the Convention, its mechanism when first created, and the origin of BIE.

Chapter two, “The International Exhibitions Bureau, its powers relating to the application of the Convention of 22nd November 1928” by Mr. A. De Geouffre de la Pradelle, Professor in law of people at the Faculty of Paris and Director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, introduces why the BIE was established and how it exerted its powers to apply the 1928 Convention.

Chapter three is excerpted from the book published in 1983, by Mr. Charles Piat, French Delegate of the BIE, to review the “52 years of the Convention” after its inception.

Chapter four, “The crisis of the nineteen eighties” (2004), by Mr. Marcel Galopin, Former member of the French Delegation of the BIE, analyzes how the changing world is challenging the 1988 Amendment to the Convention.

Epilogue “International Exhibitions in the 21st century”, by Mr. Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales, Secretary General of the International Exhibitions Bureau, puts forward his ideas about what would be the foundation, engine, state and perception of the success of world expositions.

（2007-1-22）