Bio

Nancy Hearst (南希) is a Fairbank Center Associate and the former Librarian for the Fairbank Collection in the H.C. Fung Library. Over many years as Librarian, she built up the special collection of materials on post-1949 China by making periodic trips to China and Hong Kong to select new acquisitions.

Nancy is currently a freelance editor, proofreader, and bibliographer for China-related materials and has worked with many scholars and organizations. Some of her current projects include a translation, with Hua Xiaofeng, of Wu Jinglian’s China’s Economic Reform Process (China Translation and Publishing House and Springer, forthcoming); an edited volume, with Elizabeth Perry, Public Matters: Intellectuals and Political Life in China (Asia Center, forthcoming); and preparation of the bibliography for Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun, Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, and the Dismantling of Maoism (Routledge, volume 3 of a trilogy, forthcoming).

Research interests: Contemporary Chinese politics; Chinese political history; China’s economic reform; political and intellectual life in China.