Director of the Grassroots China Initiative; Senior Research Professor of China Studies
Expertise Geographic Areas
China Issues
culture, religion and politics | governance | rural development Background and Education
As director of the Grassroots China Initiative, works with local NGOs in China; former associate professor at SAIS and assistant professor at Fordham University; former China staff member at the Social Science Research Council; recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Endowment for the Humanities; member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations; Ph.D., political science, University of California, Berkeley Foreign Languages
Chinese Publications
Muddling Toward Democracy: Political Change in Grassroots China (1998); China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC (1994, 2nd revised edition); The Private Life of Chairman Mao, co-author (1994); A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident (1991); Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of China's Intellectuals During the Great Cultural Revolution (1987); Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China, co-editor (1983); many book chapters, reports and articles in academic and popular journals and newspapers, including "In a Chinese Orphanage" in The Atlantic Monthly (April 1996) |
