Joseph Fewsmith

Joseph Fewsmith
Department of International Relations
156 Bay State Road
Room 401
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 353-6344
(617) 353-5350 fax 
fewsmith@bu.edu

Director of East Asian Studies Program; Professor of International Relations and Political Science. (BA, Northwestern University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago)

Specialization: Comparative Politics, Chinese Domestic and International Politics

Jospeh Fewsmith is the author of four books: China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (2001), Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (1994), and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1980-1930 (1985). He is very active in the China field, traveling to China frequently and presenting papers at professional conferences such as the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China. He is also a research associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University.

Professor Fewsmith teaches the following courses:

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)

Taiwan: Politics and Transformation (IR 582/PO 582)

Problems and Issues of Post-Mao China (IR 585/PO 558)

Seminar on China in the Contemporary World (IR 764)