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 roughly 10 books, including the seminal "China's Second Revolution," regularly cited by Chinese officials as influencing their present 5-year plan. Harding has a Chinese name: 何汉理 (Pinyin: Hé Hànlǐ).

Biography

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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 (1970-1971) and Stanford University (1971-1983) and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He then became Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-1994), and, later, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a post he held for more than 10 years in total ( 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.

Works

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• Author
  • 1992: A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972
  • 1988: China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension
  • 1987: China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao
  • 1981: Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976

• Editor
  • 2004: India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know
  • 1989: Sino-American Relations, 1945-55: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Debate
  • 1984: China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s

External links

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• Professor Harding's Home Page at Eurasia Group
• Professor Harding's Home Page at George Washington University

1946 births | Living people | George Washington University faculty

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