David Shambaugh analyzes the personal and professional experiences that shaped each of China’s leaders since 1949 and argues that their distinct leadership styles had profound influences on Chinese politics.
Podcasts
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · China’s War on Smuggling, with Philip Thai Philip Thai is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University. He is a historian of Modern
Jennifer Altehenger explains how China’s party-state attempted to mobilize ordinary citizens to learn laws during the early years of the PRC.
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Human Rights in China and the United States, with Carroll Bogert Carroll Bogert (AB ’83, AM ’86) is president of The Marshall Project
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · The Feminist Awakening in China, with Leta Hong Fincher On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · New Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Revolution, with Denise Y. Ho Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University,
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Why Law Matters in Taiwan, with Margaret K. Lewis Why does law matter (and why wouldn’t it) in Taiwan? Professor Margaret Lewis talks
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, with Felix Boecking “No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945” (Harvard Asia
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How to Survive as an Authoritarian Regime, with Martin Dimitrov The collapse of communist regimes at the end of the Cold War led
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · My Life as a Chinese Rock Star, with Kaiser Kuo Kaiser Kuo is a household name among China watchers as host of the