DePauw University, BA
Harvard University, MA in East Asian Studies 1968
New York University, PhD in History 1996
Adjunct Professor of History
DePauw University, BA
Harvard University, MA in East Asian Studies 1968
New York University, PhD in History 1996
US-Chinese relations since 1949, Washington’s National Security Establishment and US global stratagizing, 20th century debates over US foreign policy in the U.S. and in China.
2016- Pangoal Institution, Senior Fellow, Beijing
2005 – Adjunct Instructor New York University in History and East Asia Departments (seminars on Cold War in Asia and the Vietnam War)
1986-2005. Founder and Director, U.S.-China Book Publication Project and Executive Editor of the Culture and Civilization Project at Yale and the China International Publishing Group in Beijing.
1972-1990 Senior Editor, Pantheon Books, New York. Edited the Pantheon Asia Library as well as books on foreign policy, U.S. politics and history, European history and philosophy. Authors included: Senator J. William Fulbright, E. P. Thompson, George Kennan, Liu Binyan, Edward Said, Alva Myrdal, Sissela Bok, Noam Chomsky, Norodom Sihanouk, Francois Jacob, Franz Schurmann, Stuart Schram, John W. Dower, Jean Chesneaux, Warren Sussman, Gabriel Kolko, Ienaga Saburo, Moss Roberts, Richard Fox, Thomas Edsell, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fred Halliday, Sidney Blumenthal
1970-1972 Co-Director (with Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell), Bay Area Institute (the West coast branch of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C.), San Francisco.
1969-1970 Chair of United States-China Foreign Policy Seminar at the Kennedy Institute of Politics, Harvard University
“On Global Governance,” talk at the 7th World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai, December 2017
Guest Lecture, Tsinghua University, International Affairs Program, “U.S. National Security Views of China,” December 2016
Guest Lecture, Beijing University, Foreign Affairs Symposium, “The Central Misunderstandings Between China and the U.S. since 1949,” December 2015.
Keynote Speaker, Amnesty International Symposium at the Films that Matter Festival at The Hague, March 2012 -- “Human Rights: Ideal Illusions?”
Book Discussion on C-Span with James Hoge: “Ideal Illusions: the U.S. Government and Human Rights, March 31, 2011.