William C. Kirby
Encyclopedia
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University
, where is he concurrently the Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund. He is the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
. After a four-year tenure he announced on January 27, 2006 that he would resign as Dean.
A historian of modern China, his work examines China's economic and political development in an international context. He has written on China's relations with Europe; the history of modern Chinese capitalism; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950's; and relations across the Taiwan Strait. Kirby received his A.B. from Dartmouth College
and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His current projects include: the foreign relations of post-1949 China; Chinese business organization, past and present; and a global history of the 20th century.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, where is he concurrently the Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is a post-graduate research center promoting the study of modern and contemporary China from a social science perspective. -History:...
and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund. He is the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the largest of the seven faculties that constitute Harvard University.Headquartered principally in Cambridge, Massachusetts and centered in the historic Harvard Yard, FAS is the only division of the university responsible for both undergraduate and...
. After a four-year tenure he announced on January 27, 2006 that he would resign as Dean.
A historian of modern China, his work examines China's economic and political development in an international context. He has written on China's relations with Europe; the history of modern Chinese capitalism; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950's; and relations across the Taiwan Strait. Kirby received his A.B. from Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His current projects include: the foreign relations of post-1949 China; Chinese business organization, past and present; and a global history of the 20th century.
Publications
- A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (forthcoming)
- China and the World: Internationalization, Internalization, Externalization (Zhongguo yu shije: guojihua, neihua yu waihua) co-editor (2007)
- Global Conjectures: China in Transnational Perspective, co-editor (2006)
- Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History, co-editor (2006)
- Realms of Freedom in the Modern Chinese World, editor (2004)
- State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars, author (2001)
- Germany and Republican China, author (1984)