Harry Harding

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Harry Harding (1946—) is a leading China specialist in the United States. He has advised several US Presidents on developments in the PRC; before the Tiananmen Square demonstrations he was brought to Camp David for informal discussions with the first Bush administration. He has written several books, including the seminal China's Second Revolution, regularly cited by Chinese officials as influencing their present five-year plan. Harding has a Chinese name: 何汉理 (Pinyin: Hé Hànlǐ).

[edit] Biography

Dr. Harding was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946. He received his B.A. in public and international affairs in 1967 from Princeton University, and his M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1974) in political science from Stanford University.

Dr. Harding served on the political science faculties of Swarthmore College (1970-71) and Stanford University (1971-83) and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He then became Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94), and, later, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a post he held for more than 10 years (January 1995 – June 30, 2005). Dr. Harding is widely credited for making the Elliott School an internationally competitive graduate program. Upon his retirement from that post, Harding accepted a University Professorship at the School. On August 1, 2005, Harding joined Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy, as the firm's Director of Research and Analysis.

[edit] Selected bibliography

Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (Stanford University Press, 1981), ISBN 0804710805
China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (Yale University Press, 1984), ISBN 0300032072 (ed.)
China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (Brookings Institution, 1987), ISBN 081573462X
China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension (University Press of America, 1988), ISBN 0819165913
Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade (SR Books, 1989), ISBN 084202333X (ed. with Yuan Ming)
A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (Brookings Institution, 1992), ISBN 0815734662
The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (Columbia University Press, 2004), ISBN 0231132360 (ed. with Francine R. Frankel)