The City in Communist China

by John W. Lewis (Contributor)

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449 pages, Hardcover

Published December 31, 1971

About the author

Dr. John Wilson Lewis was an American political scientist who taught at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) from 1961 to 1968. In 1968 he joined the faculty of Stanford University (Stanford, California), where he became the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics. While at Stanford he became founding director of the Center for East Asian Studies, serving until 1970 when he, along with the theoretical physicist Professor Sidney D. Drell, co-founded Stanford’s Center for International Security and Arms Control, which in 1983 became the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He served as a co-director of the latter until 1991. From 1983 to 1990, Professor Lewis headed the Northeast Asia-United States Forum on International Policy (now the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center).