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Andrew J. Nathan

 
     
 
Andrew J. Nathan
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics, foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. Nathan received his degrees from Harvard University: B.A. in history, summa cum laude, in 1963; M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies in 1965; and a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1971. He has taught at Columbia University since 1971; prior to that he taught at the University of Michigan (1970-71).

In addition to publishing several books, he has also published articles in  World Politics, Daedalus, The China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Asian Survey, and The New York Review of Books. His current research involves collaborative survey-based studies of political culture and political participation in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other Asian societies.

 
 

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Selected Publications:
  • Peking Politics, 1918-1923 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976)
  • Chinese Democracy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985)
  • The Tiananmen Papers, edited with Perry Link (New York: Public Affairs, 2001)
  • China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files, with Bruce Gilley (New York: New York Review Books, 2002; second edition 2003)
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    Link: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/fac-bios/nathan/faculty.html
     
    Last Updated: May 23, 2007


     
     

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