Walking the Cat Back: Why Social Scientists Misunderstood Chinese Politics–Joe Fewsmith discusses his new book, Rethinking Chinese Politics (Weds. Nov 10, 2021)
Join us as BU Professor Joe Fewsmith (BU Pardee School of Global Studies) discusses his new book Rethinking Chinese Politics.
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021 from 4-6pm ET
at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Boston University (or you can join us virtually by zoom)
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About the speaker:
Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Boston University Pardee School. He is the author or 
editor of nine books, including, most recently, Rethinking Chinese Politics (June 2021). Other works include The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013), China since Tiananmen (2nd edition, 2008), and China Today, China Tomorrow (2010). Other books include 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, 1890-1930 (1985). He is one of the seven regular contributors to the China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly web publication analyzing current developments in China.
Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in 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 an associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University.
Professor Fewsmith’s areas of expertise include comparative politics as well as Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy.
Click here for additional details about Fewsmith’s new book, Rethinking Chinese Politics.