Harry Harding

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Location Charlottesville, VA, United States
Introduction Harry Harding is University Professor and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Virginia and Visiting Professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In addition to several edited volumes, his major publications include Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1966; China’s Second Revolution: Reform after Mao; A Fragile Relationship: the United States and China since 1972; and the chapter on the Cultural Revolution in the Cambridge History of China. He was the founding dean of U.Va.’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and has held positions at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and the Brookings Institution. He served as Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, and as Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group. He has served on the boards of several educational and non-profit institutions as well as on the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Science and Technology and the U.S. Defense Policy Board. A graduate of Princeton in public and international affairs, he holds a PhD in political science from Stanford University.