Claim OwnershipThe Future of U.S.-China Relations
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USC U.S.-China Institute's inaugural conference explored the multidimensional and evolving U.S.–China relationship.
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Elizabeth Economy is C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Cornell University Press, 2004), won the 2005 International Convention on Asia Scholars award for best social sciences book. Her writings appear often in publications such as Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, and she is a frequent radio and television commentator on U.S.-China Relations. Dr. Economy regularly testifies before Congress and consults for the U.S. government and corporations on Chinese environmental issues. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, her M.A. from Stanford University, and her B.A. from Swarthmore College.
David Zweig is a member of the University of Southern California's U.S.-China Institute’s Board of Scholars. Dr. Zweig is Associate Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he also directs the Center on China’s Transnational Relations. He is the author of four books, including, most recently, Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages (Cornell University Press, 2002) and is editor of the forthcoming volume Globalization and China’s Reforms (Routledge, 2007). He is also co-author of "China's Global Search for Oil," an article which appeared in the September/October 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs.
Richard Louis Edmonds is Visiting Professor in the Geographical Studies Program and Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. His interests focus around historical geography and environmental studies. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996-2002. Dr. Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong. He is the author of Macau (Clio Press, 1989), Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection (Routledge, 1994), and has edited or co-edited: Reappraising Republican China (Oxford, 2000), Managing The Chinese Environment (Oxford, 2000), The People's Republic of China After 50 Years (Oxford, 2000), and Taiwan in the Twentieth Century: A Retrospective View (Cambridge, 2001). Currently, Dr. Edmonds is co-editing a book on environmental NGOs in China and working on environmental problems in China.
Carolyn Cartier is Associate Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Globalizing South China (Blackwell, 2001), "Origins and Evolution of a Geographical Idea: The Macroregion in China," Modern China (vol. 28, 2002), and co-editor with Laurence J.C. Ma of The Chinese Diaspora: Place, Space, Mobility and Identity (Rowman & Littlefiled, 2003). She is currently working on an examination of the changing role of the state in China's administrative re-districting, and an unrelated project on the relationship between avant-garde arts and the political movement in Hong Kong.
Geremie Barmé is a Professor in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. He was recently awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship to pursue a collective research project on the city of Beijing and its histories. His research interests and work in Chinese culture and intellectual history has been interspersed with film, web, and print projects in the United States, China, and Hong Kong. He was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize for Modern China in 2004 for An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975) (University of California Press, 2004) and awarded the John E. O'Conner Film Award from The American Historical Association in 2005 for Morning Sun (2003). His other recent publications include Sang Ye’s oral history of contemporary China, China Candid: the people on the People’s Republic (University of California Press, 2006) and The Great Wall of China, edited with Claire Roberts (Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2006).
Guo Liang is the deputy director of the Center for Social Development in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he directs a frequently quoted survey on Internet usage and impact in China. Mr. Guo is also an associate professor working for the Institute of Philosophy of CASS. He received his M.A. in philosophy from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a B.A. in philosophy from Renmin University.
Orville Schell is Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of fourteen books, board member for Human Rights Watch, the Social Science Research Council and recipient of numerous awards such as the Overseas Press Club Award for the best Foreign Story and the Harvard/Stanford Shorenstein Award for Reporting on Asia. Recently, Dr. Schell has been appointed director of the new Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society.
Stanley Rosen is the Director of the East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California’s College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and a Professor of Political Science at USC specializing in Chinese politics and society. His courses range from Chinese politics and Chinese film to political change in Asia, East Asian societies, comparative politics theory, and politics and film in comparative perspective. The author or editor of six books and many articles, he has written on such topics as the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese legal system, public opinion, youth, gender, human rights, and film and the media. He is the editor of Chinese Education and Society and a frequent guest editor of other translation journals. His most recent book is State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation, with co-editor Peter Hays Gries (Routledge, 2004). He is currently working with collaborators on forthcoming volumes on Chinese higher education, with Gerard Postiglione; the “reverse brain drain,” an examination of the treatment and influence of those who had studied abroad and have now returned to China, with David Zweig; and a retrospective on the 100th anniversary of Chinese film, with Ying Zhu.
Steven B. Sample became the 10th president of the University of Southern California in March 1991. He is the university's first holder of the Robert C. Packard President’s Chair.
June Teufel Dreyer earned her doctorate at Harvard University and is a Professor in the University of Miami’s School of Business, winning numerous teaching and research awards. Prof. Dreyer’s research focuses on Chinese politics and defense issues. Among her many books is The Chinese Political System: Modernization and Tradition which is now in its sixth edition. She is currently at work on a study of Sino-Japanese relations. Prof. Dreyer’s public service includes work as a commissioner of the Congressionally-established United States Economic and Security Review Commission, service as Asia adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations; and a stint as Senior Far East Specialist at the Library of Congress. Prof. Dreyer is currently a fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and serves on the USCI Board of Scholars. She is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London and of the editorial boards of Orbis and The Journal of Contemporary China.
William H. Overholt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He formerly held the Asia Policy Research Chair at RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy and was Director of the Center. He has long been an important analyst of Asia. Dr. Overholt is the author of the forthcoming America and Asia: The Coming Transformation of Asian Geopolitics (RAND, 2007), as well as The Rise of China (W.W. Norton, 1993), which won the Mainichi News/Asian Affairs Research Center Special Book Prize. He has also written or co-written, Political Risk (Euromoney, 1982), Strategic Planning and Forecasting, with William Ascher (John Wiley, 1983), and Asia's Nuclear Future (Westview Press, 1976). In 1976 he founded the semi-annual Global Assessment, with Zbigniew Brzezinski, and edited it until 1988.
Harry Harding is University Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. In 2005, he joined Eurasia Group as Director of Research and Analysis, a political risk advisory and consulting firm headquartered in New York. A specialist on Asian affairs with a particular interest in China, he is the author of A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (Brookings Institution Press, 1992), China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension (University Press, 1988), China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (Brookings Institution Press, 1987), and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (Stanford University Press, 1981). He has published articles in a wide range of scholarly and policy journals, and serves on the editorial boards of the China Quarterly and the Journal of Democracy.
Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History and Presidential Research Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Senior Scholar with the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is an historian of America's foreign relations and has published eighteen books, which include East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World (Columbia University Press, August 2001), and the best known of which is America's Response to China (4th. ed. 2000). In addition to his scholarly publications, he has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affairs, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Nation, New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, and Washington Post. He is also an occasional commentator on National Public Radio, the Voice of America, and the BBC.
Edward Friedman is Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. His teaching and research interests include international political economy, democratization, Chinese politics, revolution, and the comparative study of transitions in Leninist States. His most recent books are Asia's Giants: Comparing China and India, co-edited with Gilley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemmas and International Peace (Routledge, 2005), Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China, co-authored with Pickowicz & Selden (Yale, 2005), What if China doesn't democratize? Implications for war and peace (East Gate Book, 2001), National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China (M.E. Sharpe, 1995), and The Politics of Democratization: Generalizing the East Asian Experience (Westview,1994).
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. He has authored or edited numerous books, including Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, co-edited with Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, and Kavita Philip (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files, with Bruce Gilley (N.Y Review Books, 2002, 2nd ed. 2003), Negotiating Culture and Human Rights: Beyond Universalism and Relativism, co-edited with Lynda S. Bell and Ilan Peleg (Columbia University Press, 2001), The Tiananmen Papers, edited with Perry Link (Public Affairs, 2001); China's Transition (Columbia University Press, 1997); The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security, with Robert S. Ross (W. W. Norton, 1997), and China's Crisis (Columbia University Press, 1990).
Kevin J. O'Brien is the Bedford Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Chinese politics in the reform era. His most recent work centers on theories of popular contention, particularly the origins, dynamics, and outcomes of protest in the Chinese countryside. He is co-author, with Lianjiang Li, of Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge, 2006) and co-editor, with Neil Diamant and Stanley Lubman, of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (Stanford, 2005). Professor O'Brien is currently working on a new book, Popular Contention in China. It will be published in late 2008.
Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and is the author or editor of nine books or monographs. His most recent books include Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law versus Democratization (M. E. Sharpe, 2006), A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford University Press, 2004), Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior (M. E. Sharpe, 2003), China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China (Routledge, 2000), Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Crisis of 1995-96 (Routledge, 1999).
C. Cindy Fan is a Professor in the UCLA Geography Department and Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies. Her research interests center on the regional and social dimensions of transitional economies, focusing specifically on labor migration, gender and migration, regional policy and inequality, and the urban system in China. Her research has been funded by four National Science Foundation grants and an award from the Luce Foundation. She has published more than fifty refereed articles, in leading disciplinary journals such as Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Economic Geography and Political Geography, and in international and interdisciplinary journals such as International Migration Review, Environment and Planning A and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Her book, entitled China on the Move: Migration, the State, and the Household, will be published by Routledge in late 2007. She is an editor of Regional Studies and a senior contributing editor of Eurasian Geography and Economics, and she is on the editorial board of China: An International Journal; Geographical Analysis; and Social Science Quarterly.
Shaoguang Wang is Professor of Political Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the chief editor of the China Review, an interdisciplinary journal on greater China. He studied for his LL.B. at Peking University and his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He taught at Tijiao High School in Wuhan from 1972-1977 and Yale University from 1990 to 2000. He has authored, co-authored, and edited twenty books in Chinese and English. In addition, he has contributed to numerous edited volumes and journals. His research interests include political economy, comparative politics, fiscal politics, democratization, and economic and political development in former socialist countries and East Asian countries. Dr. Wang has also been named a Changjiang Professor at the Tsinghua School of Public Policy and Management.
Andrew Walder is Professor of Sociology and senior fellow of the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is an expert on the sources of conflict, stability and change in communist regimes, and his current research focuses on the impact of China's market reforms on income inequality and career opportunity. He is also conducting historical research on the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1969, with an emphasis on the Beijing Red Guard movement during 1966 and 1967. His recent publications include "Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite," in the American Journal of Sociology, co-authored with Bobai Li (vol.106, 2001); "Politics and Life Chances in a State Socialist Regime: Dual Career Paths into the Urban Chinese Elite, 1949 to 1996," in the American Sociological Review, co-authored with Bobai Li (vol. 65, No. 2, 2000); Property Rights and Economic Reform in China, co-edited with Jean Oi (Stanford University Press, 1999); and Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China (Harvard University Press, 1998).
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