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Curriculum Vitae (Abridged) Curriculum Vitae (Abridged) [This abridged cv includes only major appointments and major publications. It does not include lesser appointments and publications or unpublished talks and presentations] HARRY HARDING University Professor and Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia Principal positions University of Virginia: University Professor and Professor of Public Policy, 2014- Dean, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy and Politics, 2009-14 National Chengchi University (Taipei): Yushan Scholar and Adjunct Chair Professor of Social Science, 2018- Eurasia Group: Director, Research and Analysis, 2005-07 George Washington University: Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, 1995-2005 Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, 1983-94 Stanford University: Associate Professor of Political Science, 1979-83 Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1973-79 Acting Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1971-73 abridged CV as of 1-31-2020.docx -2- Swarthmore College: Instructor of Political Science, 1970-71 Visiting and adjunct positions: Visiting Professor of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong, January-May 2009. Visiting Scholar, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, November-December 2008. Visiting Fellow, Center for U.S.-China Relations, The Asia Society, 2007-09 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, United College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 1999. Adjunct Professor of History, Georgetown University, 1992-93. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Gaston Sigur Center for East Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Spring 1994. Henry M. Jackson Visiting Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Washington, April 1988. Coordinator of the East Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1979-80 National Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1977-78 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 1977 Consultant, The Rand Corporation, 1969-85 abridged CV as of 1-31-2020.docx -3- Books Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981). China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984). Editor. China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1987). Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1989). Co-edited with Yuan Ming. The Chinese edition appeared as Yuan Ming and Harry Harding (eds.), Zhongmei guanxi shishang chenzhongde yiye [A critical page in the history of Sino- American relations] (Peking: Peking University Press, 1989). A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992). A Chinese edition appeared as Cuiruode guanxi: 1972-nianyilaide meiguo he zhongguo (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, 1993). The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). Co-edited with Francine R. Frankel. Chugoku -- 21 no risku: Kanousei to inpakuto [China - 21 Risks: Probability and Impact] (Tokyo: Japan External Trade Organization, 2007). Project leader for Eurasia Group. Monographs China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension, Asian Agenda Report No. 12 (Lanham, Maryland and New York: University Press of America and the Asia Society, 1987). Articles, chapters, and essays Chinese domestic affairs: "China: Toward Revolutionary Pragmatism," Asian Survey, vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1971), pp. 51-67. abridged CV as of 1-31-2020.docx -4- “Maoist Theories of Policy-making and Organization,” in Thomas W. Robinson (ed.), The Cultural Revolution in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), pp. 113-64. "China: The Fragmentation of Power," Asian Survey, vol. 12, no. 1 (January 1972), pp. 1-15. "Political Trends in China Since the Cultural Revolution," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 402 (July 1972), pp. 67-82. "Leadership Succession in the People's Republic of China," in Perspectives on National Leadership Succession, Report S-2 (Bethesda: Analytic Support Center, Mathematica, Inc., June 1975), pp. 82-86. "The Organizational Issue in Chinese Politics, 1949-1975," in Proceedings of the Fifth Sino-American Conference on Mainland China (Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 1976), pp. 122-56. "China After Mao," Problems of Communism, vol. 26, no. 2 (March-April 1977), pp. 1-18. "The First Year Without Mao" (New York: The China Council of the Asia Society, 1977). Reprinted in Contemporary China, vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 1978), pp. 81-98. "A Political Scientist's Perspective," in Wm. Theodore de Bary, et al., China's Future and Its Implications for U.S.-China Relations, Occasional Paper No. 2 (Washington, D.C.: East Asia Program, The Wilson Center, 1980), pp. 21-31. "The Transformation of China," The Brookings Review, vol. 2, no. 3 (Spring 1984), pp. 3-7. “Reform in China: A Mid-Course Assessment,” Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (Summer 1984), pp. 3-26. Translated as "Zhongguo gaigede huigu yu zhanwang," in Zhishifenzi [The Chinese intellectual] (New York), vol. 1, no. 3 (April 1985), pp. 15-21. "Huigu yu zhanwang" [Retrospect and prospect], Zhishifenzi [The Chinese intellectual] (New York), vol. 1, no. 4 (July 1985), pp. 28-32. "Political Development in Post-Mao China," in A. Doak Barnett and Ralph Clough (eds.), Modernizing China: Post-Mao Reform (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986), pp. 13-37. abridged CV as of 1-31-2020.docx -5- "Political Stability and Succession," in U.S. 99th Congress, 2nd Session, Joint Economic Committee, China's Economy Looks Toward the Year 2000, vol. 1: The Four Modernizations (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986), pp. 49-71. "The Role of the Military in Chinese Politics," in Victor C. Falkenheim (ed.), Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China, Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, vol. 56 (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1987), pp. 213-56. "Lijing shinian gaigede zhongguo: yige meiguorende guancha" [China after a decade of reform: an American observation], Gaige [Reform] (Peking), no. 3 (May 1988), pp. 43-48. "China's Political Reforms," in Charles E. Morrison and Robert F. Dernberger (eds.), Asia-Pacific Report, 1989 (Focus: China in the Reform Era) (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1989), pp. 43-51. "Crises in Communist Reform: Lessons from Tiananmen," The Brookings Review, vol. 8, no. 3 (Summer 1990), pp. 47-51. "The Evolution of Chinese Politics: 1949-1989," in Ramon H. Myers (ed.), Two Societies in Opposition: The Republic of China and the People's Republic of China after Forty Years (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1991), pp. 316-40. China in the 1990s: Prospects for Internal Change (NBR Analysis, vol. 1, no. 1) (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian and Soviet Research: September 1990). This article also appears in slightly different form in Robert A. Scalapino and Gennady I. Chufrin (eds.), Asia in the 1990s: American and Soviet Perspectives, Research Papers and Policy Studies, No. 36 (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1991), pp. 94-111. "The Problematic Future of China's Economic Reforms," in U.S. 102d Congress, 1st Session, Joint Economic Committee, China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problems of Reform, Modernization, and Interdependence (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1991), vol. 1, pp. 78-88. "The Chinese State in Crisis," in Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, vol. 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 107-217. Reprinted abridged CV as of 1-31-2020.docx -6- in Roderick MacFarquhar (ed.), The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 148-247. "China at the Crossroads: Conservatism, Reform, or Decay?", in Asia's International Role in the Post-Cold War Era, Part I, Adelphi Paper No. 275 (London: Brassey's for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, March 1993), pp. 36-48. "'On the Four Great Relationships': The Prospects for China," Survival, 36:2 (Summer 1994), pp. 22-42. “China: What Could Go Wrong?” (Washington: The Atlantic Council, January 27, 2006). “Think Again: China,” Foreign Policy, March-April 2007, pp. 26-32. Chinese foreign policy, military policy, and foreign economic relations: "Chinese Foreign Policy in the Post-Mao Era" (New York: The China Council of the Asia Society, December 1978). "China and the Third World: From Revolution to Containment," in Richard H. Solomon (ed.), The China Factor (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall, 1981), pp. 257-95. "China's Changing Roles in the Contemporary World," in Harry Harding (ed.), China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), pp. 177-223. "China and the World/The World and China" (New York: The China Council of the Asia Society, September 1983). Co-authored with Jonathan Kaufman. "Foreword" to Lillian Craig Harris, China's Foreign Policy toward the Third World (The Washington Papers, vol. 12, no. 112) (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
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