The Rise of China's Universities: A Threat to the American Liberal Arts Model?
Elizabeth J. Perry is the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, an independent foundation whose mission is to advance higher education in Asia. Her current research focuses on cultural governance and the politics of higher education in modern and contemporary China.
Perry is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. Perry sits on the editorial boards of over a dozen major scholarly journals, holds honorary professorships at eight Chinese universities, and has served as the president of the Association for Asian Studies.
Her most recent books include Mao's Invisible Hand: Political Foundations Of Adaptive Governance In China (Harvard, 2011); Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition (Berkeley, 2012); and [in Chinese] What Is The Best Kind Of History? (Zhejiang, 2015)
Professor Perry’s Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.