Research

Author: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor in Business, Government, and International Economy at Harvard Business School About the book Relationships between political and business elites are crucial in determining a nation’s political-economic trajectory. Understanding such relationships and why…

Author: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University About the book This book “seeks to unite Chinese history with social science” (Mark Jacobsen, The Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs) by offering a new theory for understanding the process of state-building in…

Editors: Nancy Hearst and Joseph Fewsmith The series, Mao’s Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong’s writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on his life and thought as well as developments in China…

Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years, growing from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history into an encyclopedic, 1.7-million-word introduction to Chinese civilization and the primary and secondary resources and research…

Martin K. Whyte and Mary C. Brinton’s book contains fond reminiscences from 155 diverse individuals to convey what was so extraordinary about the character and life of the late Ezra Vogel, a professor of Chinese Studies at Harvard.

Maura Dykstra’s book, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine, investigates the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state.

Lawrence Zhang’s groundbreaking study investigates how observers and critics of the Qing’s purchase system informs the questionable view that it was anti-meritocratic.

Following the success of The China Questions, a new volume of insights from top China specialists explains key issues shaping today’s United States–China relationship.

Craig A. Smith’s “Chinese Asianism” examines Chinese intellectual discussions of East Asian solidarity, analyzing them in connection with Chinese nationalism and Sino–Japanese relations.

In Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame, Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang’s leadership and legacy by drawing on an extraordinary and uncensored collection of his diaries, telegrams, and speeches stitched together by his secretaries.