Areas of Study
Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Democratization and Development in China; International Relations, US-China Relations, US Policy Towards Asia
Selected Publications
- Author and Editor, Global Studies; China (Guilford, Ct.: McGraw Hill), 10th edition, 2003., 11th edition, 2005., 12th edition, 2007.
- Inklings of Democracy in China, (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press), 2002.
- China’s Unresolved Issues: Politics, Development and Culture, 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995
- Project Director and Chief Editor in collaboration with Kathleen Hartford, Lawrence Sullivan and David Zweig, China’s Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989. (M.E. Sharpe: Armonk, N.Y.) 1992.
Selected Professional Activities
- Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1974-present
- Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, England,1995-1997; 2010
- Visiting Scholar, East Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2011
- Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University, 1995-96, 1997
- Fulbright Lecturer, Foreign Affairs College, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Beijing, 1996-97
- Editorial Board, Journal of Contemporary China
- Evaluator, National Science Foundation
- Evaluator, American Council of Learned Societies
- Evaluator for CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)
- Founding Board of Directors, Greater China Business Council of New England
- Roundtable discussant, “Roundtable: Democracy, Sooner or Later?” China in the Red, Frontline, PBS
- International Monitor for national elections in El Salvador, 1994
- Member of:
- National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
- New England China Seminar (Harvard)
- Grants:
- CASA ASIA, 2010-2011. For study of shared benefits in the Mekong River Basin
Recent Courses Taught
Graduate
- POLS 7379- Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
Undergraduate
- POLS 1160- International Relations
- POLS 3485- Government and Politics in China
- POLS 4937- Government and Politics, Learning Abroad, China
- ARCH 3364- Architecture and Urban Planning, China
