The Rise of China?s Soft Power

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Forum: The Rise of China’s Soft Power

Panelist bios:

Kennedy School Professor Joseph S. Nye Jr., is also the former dean of the Kennedy School. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, did postgraduate work at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs, chair of the National Intelligence Council, and deputy assistant secretary of state for security assistance, science and technology. In 2004, he published Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, Understanding International Conflict (5th edition), and The Power Game: A Washington Novel.

Lan Xue bio can be found at http://policy.gmu.edu/innovations/bio_pdf/Bio_Xue_05.11.pdf

After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan in 1950 and serving two years in the U.S. Army, Harvard Professor Ezra F. Vogel studied sociology in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, receiving his PhD in 1958. He then went to Japan for two years to study the Japanese language and conduct research interviews with middle-class families. In 1960-1961 he was assistant professor at Yale University and from 1961-1964 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, studying Chinese language and history. He remained at Harvard, becoming lecturer in 1964 and, in 1967, professor. He retired from teaching on June 30, 2000. Vogel succeeded John Fairbank to become the second director (1972-1977) of Harvard's East Asian Research Center and chair of the Council for East Asian Studies (1977-1980). He was director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs (1980-1987) and, since 1987, Honorary Director. He was chair of the undergraduate concentration in East Asian Studies from its inception in 1972 until 1991. He was director of the Fairbank Center (1995-1999) and the first director of the Asia Center (1997-1999). Vogel was chair of the Harvard Committee to Welcome President Jiang Zemin (1998). He has also served as co-director of the Asia Foundation Task Force on East Asian Policy Recommendations for the New Administration (2001).


Kennedy School Professor Tony Saich is faculty chair of Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program. From 1994 until July 1999, he was representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this, he was director of the Sinological Institute at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His teaching and research focus on the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in determining policymaking and framing socioeconomic development. Saich has written several books on developments in China, including Governance and Politics of China (2001, 2004); China's Science Policy in the '80s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's China (1994, with David E. Apter); and The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996). He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in England, Holland, and the United States.