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Andrew J. Nathan

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Asian Studies

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Andrew J. Nathan's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Government Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Andrew J. Nathan is a professor of political science at Columbia University. He specializes in Chinese politics, foreign policy, human rights and political culture. Nathan attended Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. in history, an M.A. in East Asian studies, and a Ph.D. in political science. He has taught at Columbia University since 1971, and currently serves as the chair of the steering committee for the Center for the Study of Human Rights. His previous appointments include as the chair of the Department of Political Science , and chair of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute .

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AUTHORITARIAN RESILIENCE (2007) (394)
China's Changing of the Guard: Authoritarian Resilience (2003) (300)
A Factionalism Model for CCP Politics (1973) (261)
Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (1986) (215)
The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security (1997) (207)
How China Sees America (2012) (150)
The Tiananmen Papers (2001) (102)
9. China Democratic Values Supporting an Authoritarian System (2008) (76)
China's Transition (1999) (73)
China's New Rulers: The Secret Files (2002) (71)
Democratizing transition in Taiwan (1987) (61)
China's crisis: Dilemmas of reform and prospects for democracy (1990) (60)
Karachi: : Ordered disorder and the struggle for the city (2016) (59)
Human Rights In Contemporary China (1987) (59)
How China Sees America: The Sum of Beijing's Fears (2016) (58)
Information for Autocrats: Representation in Chinese Local Congresses. (2016) (58)
China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent.@@@Intellectuals and the State in Modern China: A Narrative History. (1982) (57)
Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Policy (1994) (52)
A history of the China International Famine Relief Commission (1965) (51)
Elite parties, poor voters: : How social services win votes in India. (2015) (49)
Left and Right With Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China (1996) (48)
China's search for security (2015) (48)
Peking politics, 1918-1923 : factionalism and the failure of constitutionalism (1977) (47)
Factionalism: A New Institutionalist Restatement (1995) (44)
Negotiating Culture and Human Rights (2000) (39)
China at the Tipping Point?: Foreseeing the Unforeseeable (2013) (37)
Authoritarian Resilience Revisited: Joseph Fewsmith with Response from Andrew J. Nathan (2018) (35)
The Puzzle of the Chinese Middle Class (2016) (35)
Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia. (2016) (34)
Is Chinese Culture Distinctive?—A Review Article (1993) (32)
Policy Oscillations in the People's Republic of China: A Critique (1976) (30)
1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Democratic Legitimacy in East Asia (2008) (29)
China's Overstretched Military (2012) (27)
What's wrong with American Taiwan policy (2000) (26)
China’s hidden children: : Abandonment, adoption, and the human costs of the one-child policy (2016) (24)
Japan: : The precarious future (2016) (24)
4. Sources of Chinese Rights Thinking (1986) (22)
The Legislative Yuan Elections in Taiwan: Consequences of the Electoral System (1993) (22)
China's Constitutionalist Option (1996) (22)
The Puzzle of Authoritarian Legitimacy (2020) (22)
"Good coup" gone bad: : Thailand's political developments since Thaksin's downfall (2014) (20)
Will China Democratize (2013) (19)
Maoism at the grassroots: : Everyday life in China’s era of high socialism (2016) (18)
Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (2003) (18)
China ’ s Changing of the Guard (16)
China Since Tiananmen: Authoritarian Impermanence (2009) (16)
Dilemmas of Reform in Jiang Zemins China (1999) (15)
China: Getting human rights right (1997) (15)
Anxious wealth: : money and morality among China's new rich (2014) (14)
Asia's Challenged Democracies (2009) (14)
Modern China, 1840-1972 : an introduction to sources and research aids (1974) (13)
Imperialism’s effects on China (1972) (13)
7. Japanese Attitudes and Values Toward Democracy (2008) (13)
Chinese democracy: The lessons of failure (1993) (12)
The bullet and the ballot box: : the story of Nepal's Maoist revolution (2014) (12)
China leadership monitor. (2015) (12)
Introduction: Culture and Human Rights (2001) (10)
The barefoot lawyer: : A blind man’s fight for justice and freedom in China (2016) (10)
Is China Ready for Democracy? (2008) (10)
From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. By Shelley Rigger. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. 232p. $49.95 (2003) (9)
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping (2021) (9)
Present at the Stagnation: Is China's Development Stalled? (2006) (9)
6. Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of “Women’s Rights as Human Rights” (2001) (9)
China's Goals in the Taiwan Strait (1996) (9)
Chinese Political Culture (2001) (9)
Spying for the people: : Mao's secret agents, 1949-1967 (2014) (8)
Seizing the Opportunity for Change in the Taiwan Strait (2007) (8)
China's Crisis (1947) (8)
3. Mass Public Perceptions of Democratization in the Philippines Consolidation in Progress (2008) (7)
China at the Tipping Point? (2012) (7)
Appealing the Tiananmen Verdict: New Documents from China's Highest Leaders (2001) (7)
China and international human rights: Tiananmen’s paradoxical impact (2010) (6)
4. How Citizens View Taiwan’s New Democracy (2008) (6)
Peking Politics, 1918-1923 (1977) (6)
China's Path from Communism (2008) (6)
Peking Politics, 1918-1923: Factionalism and the Failure of Constitutionalism (1977) (6)
Globalization as a Security Strategy: Power and Vulnerability in the “China Model” (2013) (6)
My Tibetan childhood: : when ice shattered stone (2014) (5)
Will China Democratize? “Even Our Caution Must be Hedged” (1998) (5)
The future of United States naval power (1979) (5)
13. Universalism: A Particularistic Account (2001) (5)
The Tiananmen Papers Revisited (2004) (5)
The Tiananmen Papers: An Editor's Reflections (2001) (4)
In the shadow of the rising dragon : stories of repression in the new China (2013) (4)
Asia and the Pacific (2011) (4)
Patronage and power: : local state networks and party-state resilience in rural China (2014) (4)
The pakistan paradox: : Instability and resilience (2016) (4)
Does China Have the Cultural Preconditions for Democracy?@@@China's Transition (1999) (4)
Authoritarian Resurgence: China's challenge (2015) (4)
The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation/South Korea’s New Nationalism: The End of “One Korea”? (2016) (4)
Social Benefits in Urban China Determinants and Impact on Income Inequality in 1988 and 2002 (2006) (4)
1. Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights (2001) (4)
China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China. By Dreyer June Teufel. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. 333. $14.00.) (1978) (4)
The Writings of Mao Zedong 1949-1976 (1988) (3)
Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat. (2016) (3)
The Tiananmen Papers . Compiled by Zhang Liang. Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 513 pp. $30.00 (cloth). (2001) (3)
An economist in the real world: : The art of policymaking in India (2016) (3)
4. Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions (2001) (3)
8. Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective (2001) (3)
China’s influence and the Center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific (2020) (3)
Introduction: Some Paradigmatic Issues in the Study of Chinese Political Culture (2016) (2)
10. Conclusion Values, Regime Performance, and Democratic Consolidation (2008) (2)
The U.S.-china military scorecard: : Forces, geography, and the evolving balance of power, 1996–2017 (2016) (2)
Deng Xiaoping’s long war: : The military conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979–1991 (2016) (2)
Domestic Factors in the Making of Chinese Foreign Policy * (2016) (2)
7. Repositioning Human Rights Discourse on “Asian” Perspectives (2001) (2)
My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident (2012) (2)
Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrityby Alan M. Wachman (2008) (2)
Trading With the Enemy: The Making of U.S. Export Control Policy Toward the People’s Republic of China. (2016) (2)
Historical Perspectives on Chinese Democracy: The Overseas Democracy Movement Today (2019) (2)
Men to devils, devils to men: : Japanese war crimes and Chinese justice. (2015) (2)
3. Political Rights in Chinese Constitutions (1986) (2)
My fight for a new Taiwan: : one woman's journey from prison to power (2014) (2)
A constitutional republic: the Peking government, 1916–28 (1983) (2)
What Is Xi Jinping Afraid Of (2017) (2)
China: Fragile Superpowerby Susan L. Shirk (2008) (2)
Popular Political Support in Urban Chinaby Jie Chen (2005) (2)
China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post‐Imperial World by John W. Garver (2007) (2)
Divided we govern: : Coalition politics in Modern india (2016) (2)
Stopping the Revolving Door: Adopting a Rational System for the Insanity Defense (1980) (1)
Zhao Ziyang's vision of Chinese Democracy (2008) (1)
The China boom: : Why China will not rule the world (2016) (1)
[China's Fourth Generation: The New Rulers and the Secret Files]: Response (2003) (1)
The Soviet Union, China and Korea (1982) (1)
Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping.@@@Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire. (1996) (1)
Is China Unstable? Edited by DAVID SHAMBAUGH. [Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. xi + 177 pp. ISBN hard cover 0–7656–0572–4; paperback 0–7656–0573–2.] (2001) (1)
Globalization and the Construction of Universal Human Rights (2006) (1)
The Oxford handbook of indian foreign policy (2016) (1)
Biden’s China Policy: Old Wine in New Bottles? (2021) (1)
3. Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative (2001) (1)
The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949–1976 . Vol. 1: September 1949–December 1955. Edited by Michael Y. M. Kau and John K. Leung. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1986. xlii, 771 pp. $90.00. (1988) (1)
Appendix A: Universal Declaration on Human Rights (2001) (1)
China Rising: The Meaning of Tienanmen.@@@China's Crisis. (1991) (0)
New Experiences for an Old Visitor (2006) (0)
China’s influence and the pushback (2020) (0)
Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformationby Ming Wan (2007) (0)
Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China by Michael A. Santoro (2000) (0)
American Studies of Contemporary China . Edited by Shambaugh David. [Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1993. 369 pp. Hard cover £44.00, ISBN 1-56324-266-4; paperback £18.00, ISBN 1-56324-267-2.] (1994) (0)
Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power by A. I. Johnston and R. S. Ross (2001) (0)
Symposium on China and Constitutionalism: Introduction (2019) (0)
Confronting a Rising China Begins at Home (2012) (0)
People's Republic of China: The Human Rights Exception . By Roberta Cohen. Corrected edition. A Report to the Parliamentary Human Rights Group. [London: Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1988. 104 pp.] (1988) (0)
Chronology of the Republic of China, Vol. 1, 1912-1925. (1981) (0)
Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973 (review) (2004) (0)
Berkshire dictionary of chinese biography, vol. 4 (2016) (0)
Political Change across the Strait Not Necessarily Parallel (2008) (0)
Sixty Good Books on China: A Basic Collection for the General Reader. (1972) (0)
Guest Editor's Introduction (2003) (0)
Acknowledgement to Referees (2000) (0)
Guest Editor's Introduction (2002) (0)
FROM THE CLASSICS TO TODAY: HOW MUCH HAVE VALUES CHANGED? (2018) (0)
China 1945: : Mao's Revolution and America's fateful choice (2014) (0)
Appendix 2. Research Protocol (2008) (0)
Guest Editor's Introduction (2007) (0)
China and Charles Darwin . By James Reeve Pusey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xi, 544 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $25. (1985) (0)
Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics, 1925–1937 . By Diana Lary. [London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 276 pp. £650. $19·50.] (1976) (0)
The invitation-only zone: : The true story of North Korea’s abduction project (2016) (0)
Searching for the Appropriate Model for the People’s Republic of China (2000) (0)
Appendix 4. Question Wording (2008) (0)
Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective . Edited by Brantly Womack. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 334 pp. Hard cover £35.00, $59.50, ISBN 0 521 41099 1; paperback £12.95, $16.95, ISBN 0 521 42282 5.] (1993) (0)
The Political Process before and after the Tiananmen Square Incident and the Role of Trade Unions ISHII Tomoaki (2008) (0)
Appendix 3. Coding Scheme for Open-Ended Question on Understanding of Democracy (2008) (0)
Politics: Reform at the Crossroad (2019) (0)
A Comparative Survey of DEMOCRACY , GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT Working Paper Series : No . 23 Traditional Social Values , Democratic Values , and Political Participation (2004) (0)
Appendix 1. Sampling and Fieldwork Methods (2008) (0)
12. Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction (2001) (0)
Remembering Liu Xiaobo (2017) (0)
Captive Spirits: Prisoners of the Cultural Revolution. Yang Xiguang , Susan McFadden (1999) (0)
China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, 1912–1949 . By James E. Sheridan. [New York: The Free Press, 1975. The Transformation of Modern China Series. 338 pp. $12.95.] (1979) (0)
Appendix C: Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights (2001) (0)
Sources of Tibetan tradition/The Tibetan history reader (2014) (0)
Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain Warby John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai (2008) (0)
Modern China's Original Sin (2014) (0)
Documents on Democracy (2003) (0)
8. Redefinitions of Freedom in China (2002) (0)
14. Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature (2001) (0)
Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US–China Rivalry by Lyle J. Goldstein. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2015. 400 pp. $29.95. (2016) (0)
Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights.Ann Kent (1995) (0)
China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900.R. J. Rummel (1994) (0)
American Strategy toward China (2016) (0)
Some Trends in the Historiography of Republican China (2021) (0)
Factionalism in China from a New Institutionalist Perspective (2002) (0)
Remarks at the Memorial Service for C. Martin Wilbur, September 4, 1997 (1999) (0)
Liu Xiaobo’s Death and Chinese Regime’s Fear (2020) (0)
Mplications of the 16th Party Congress for the Institutionalization of the CCP (2003) (0)
9. Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals (2001) (0)
By all means necessary: : how China's resource quest is changing the world (2014) (0)
Appendix D: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (2001) (0)
2. Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal (2001) (0)
Reflections on Studying China: Changes Over Four Decades (2006) (0)
Guest Editor's Introduction (2002) (0)
China Research, 1895–1949 (1976) (0)
The Broken Mirror: China After Tiananmen.George Hicks (1991) (0)
Education and Attitudes towards Internal Migrants in China (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Power by Design: Constitution Making in Nationalist China.Suisheng Zhao (1997) (0)
China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance . By Ann Kent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xiii, 328 pp. $22.50 (paper). (2000) (0)
Rebellion and Factionalism in a Chinese Province: Zhejiang, 1966–1976 . By Keith Forster. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1990. Studies on Contemporary China, xiii, 338 pp. $45.00. (1991) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
Great game East: : India, China, and the struggle for Asia’s most volatile frontier. (2015) (0)
Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, edited by David JOHNSON, (2016) (0)
Mao's China: A History of the People's Republic . By Maurice Meisner. New York: The Free Press (The Transformation of Modern China Series), 1977. xiv, 416 pp. Map, Selected Bibliography, Index. $17.95. (1979) (0)
Pyongyang Republic: : North Korea’s capital of human rights denial (2016) (0)
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Selected Titles (2020) (0)
Jing Huang, Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 458 pp. (2001) (0)
A Discussion of Daniel A. Bell’s The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (2016) (0)
10 Searching for the Appropriate Model for the People’s Republic of China (2000) (0)
For Further Reading (1953) (0)
A China of Citizens (2017) (0)
Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong: Issues and Implications of the Basic Law.@@@Sovereignty and the Status Quo: The Historical Roots of China's Hong Kong Policy.@@@The Future of the Law in Hong Kong. (1991) (0)
Blood, dreams, and gold: : The changing face of Burma (2016) (0)

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