Lynn T. White
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, in the Department of Politics, Woodrow Wilson School, and East Asian Studies Program
221 Bendheim Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Office Hours: W 2:10-4:10
Phone: 609.924.1665
Fax: 609.258.0482
E-mail: lynn@princeton.edu
Specialization: Political development; political sociology; China; Thailand; the Philippines
Lynn is a specialist in Asian development with an emphasis on China. His particular interests include post revolutionary reforms, politics in non-state institutions, urban politics (esp. in Hong Kong and Shanghai), the modernization of economic institutions, Chinese media, ecological approaches to politics, concepts of corruption, political anthropology, the effects of economic booms on local politics in East and South East Asia, the Taiwan Strait issue, and the use of Chinese materials to refine theories of comparative politics. He is the author of Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966; Shanghai Shanghaied? Uneven Taxes in Reform China; Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution; Unstately Power (two vols.); and co-editor of Political System and Change and Social Policy Reform in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Lynn is also the author of many articles and essays on Chinese politics. For more information, please see http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~lynn/
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Link to: Personal Web site