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Andrew J. Nathan is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His publications include Peking Politics, 1918-1923 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976); Chinese Democracy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985); Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, co-edited with David Johnson and Evelyn S. Rawski (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985); Human Rights in Contemporary China, with R. Randle Edwards and Louis Henkin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986); China's Crisis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990); The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security, with Robert S. Ross (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997); China's Transition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997); The Tiananmen Papers, edited with Perry Link (New York: PublicAffairs, 2001); and Negotiating Culture and Human Rights: Beyond Universalism and Relativism co-edited with Lynda S. Bell and Ilan Peleg (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). His current research involves collaborative survey-based studies of political culture and political participation in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other Asian societies.
Born on April 3, 1943, in New York City, Dr. Nathan received his degrees from Harvard University: the B.A. in history, summa cum laude, in 1963; the M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies in 1965; and the Ph.D. in Political Science in 1971. He taught at the University of Michigan in 1970-71 and at Columbia University since 1971. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and others. He served as Director of the East Asian Institute, 1991-1995, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Political Science Department since 1997.
Nathan was chair of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, Asia, 1995-2000, and continues to serve on this committee and on the board of Human Rights in China. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Democracy, The China Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary China, and China Information, among others. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the Association for Asian Studies, and the American Political Science Association. He does frequent interviews for the print and electronic media, has advised on several film documentaries on China, and has consulted for business and government.
The East Asian Institute is Columbia University's interdisciplinary center for research and teaching on modern East Asia. Its faculty members conduct individual and group research projects. The Institute awards a Certificate in East Asian Studies to students enrolled in the university's various graduate programs.
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