Joseph Fewsmith
Research Fellow
Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
Education
B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Expertise
Comparative Politics, Chinese Domestic and International Politics, Asia Studies.
Biography
Professor 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 and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University.