THOMAS P.BERNSTEIN (Ph.D., Columbia, 1970), member of the Executive Committee of the East Asian Institute, joined the faculty in l975, having previously taught at Yale and Indiana Universities. He is a specialist on comparative politics, with a focus on China as well as on communist systems generally. Comparative studies include  analysis  of the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union and China and of the two famines that each country experienced in the l930s and late l950s. Work on China includes a book on Chinese youth (Yale University Press, 1977) as well as book chapters on the Mao era, on growth without liberalization, democratization, and on education. Most of his recent writings have focused on various aspects of state-peasant relations in China’s reform period. Together with Professor Xiaobo Lu, he co-authored Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural
China (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He also wrote a case study for the PEW Intitiative in Diplomatic Training, “The Negotiations to Normalize US-China Relations” (1988). He serves on the Editorial Committee of Comparative Politics, and on the Editorial Boards of China Quarterly (UK) and China: An International Journal (Singapore)

He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from l986-l989 and again from l991 to l994.