Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Fields: Comparative Government and International Relations (China and Vietnam)

Author of Foundations of Mao Zedong’s Political Thought, 1917-1935; Politics in China 3rd ed. (with James Townsend); editor of Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective; Media and the Chinese Public; Electoral Reform in China; author of more than fifty journal articles and book chapters on Asian politics, Fulbright Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Mellon Fellow, and recipient of numerous research grants. Current research interests include relations between China and Vietnam; the relationship of public authority and popular power in China; provincial diversification in China; domestic politics and foreign policy in Vietnam; China’s relationship with Southeast Asia. Former Director, East Asia Center.

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