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Xiaobo Lu
International Affairs Building, Room 914
Professor of Political Science; Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Phone: 212-854-7912
xl29@columbia.edu
Biography:
Xiaobo Lu is professor of political science at Barnard College and was the director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Lu's current research interests include Chinese politics and political economy, East Asian politics and economy, comparative political corruption and governance, political economy of regulation, and politics of development in East Asia. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Barnard College (1994–2001).
Lu is the coauthor of Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China and Resistance and Democratization with Thomas Bernstein; he is author of Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party. He has also written numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews.
He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Political Science and a member of the senior editorial board of Crime, Law, and Social Change. Lu has been a visiting assistant professor at the Graduate Program in Pacific Basin Studies at Dominican College (1993–94) and a national fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution (1998–99). He has also served as an international affairs fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations (2001–2002). He was an instructor at Foreign Affairs College in Beijing (1984–85).
Professor Lu holds a BA from the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Studies (1982), an MA from Foreign Affairs College in Beijing (1985), and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1994).