Faculty

David Bachman

(Ph.D., Stanford), associate professor of International Studies; Chair, China Studies Program; Director, East Asia Center (Dept. of Education-Title VI Center); and adjunct professor of Political Science who works on Chinese politics and foreign policy, with a particular interest in Chinese political economy. He is the author of Chen Yun and the Chinese Political System; Bureaucracy, Economy and Leadership: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward; and co-editor and co-translator (with Dali Yang) of Yan Jiaqi and China's Struggle for Democracy. His articles have appeared in a number of journals including: World Politics, Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs, International Affairs, Northeast Asian Studies, and Contemporary China. He is a member of the Committee on Advanced Study in China of the American Council of Learned Societies. Current projects include the origins and development of China's Military Industrial Complex and China's regional development as well as the structure and process of Chinese foreign policy making. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level on the Chinese political system, Chinese foreign policy, and (undergraduate level) Asian Development.