Minxin Pei, Ph.D.
Department
Areas of Expertise
Teaching Interests
Comparative Politics,Chinese Politics,Democracy in Developing Countries
Research Interests
Chinese Foreign Policy,Politics of Economic Reform,Political Institutions and Governance in China,Democratization,U.S.-China Relations
Education
B.A., Shanghai International Studies University; M.A. and Ph.D, Harvard University
Awards and Affiliations
Robert McNamara Fellow, the World Bank, 1994-1995
Edward Teller National Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1994-1995
LaPorte Preceptorship, Princeton University, 1995-1998
Olin Faculty Fellow, The Olin Foundation, 1997-1998
Research and Publications
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China (forthcoming, Harvard University Press)
List of Local Yearbooks and Gazettes used in The Sentinel State
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (Harvard 2016)
China's Trapped Transition: The limits of developmental autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006)
From Reform to Revolution: The demise of communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994)