Department of International Relations
Director, East Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program
Professor of International Relations and Political Science

Joseph Fewsmith has worked on Chinese elite politics, local governance, and foreign policy for many years.  He is the author of four books, including China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (2001) and Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001).  He is also a regular contributor to China Leadership Monitor (www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org), a quarterly on-line journal that analyses the contemporary Chinese political and economic scene.  His articles have appeared in The China Quarterly, Asian Survey, Orbis, The Journal of Contemporary China, and elsewhere.

For more information see:      http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/fewsmith.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
The Pacific Challenge (IR 275/PO 365)
China: From Revolution to Reform (IR 370/PO 369)
Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China (IR 577/PO 578)
Problems and Issues in Post-Mao China (IR 585/PO 558)