Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University. He was Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and Chair of the Government Department. He was the founding editor of “The China Quarterly”, and has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In previous personae, he has been a journalist, a TV commentator, and a Member of Parliament. His most recent books are Mao’s Last Revolution (jointly-authored; Harvard, 2006) and The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China (editor; Cambridge, 2011).
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