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Curriculum Vitae

                    

 

               JAMES D. SEYMOUR 司馬晉

 

Home addresses:   260 Riverside Drive,  New York, N. Y. 10025

              94 Po Wah Yuen G/F, Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island, Hong Kong.

                  香港南丫島榕樹灣寳華園94號地下

 

 

Employment: East Asian Institute, Columbia University (since 1981) New York, N. Y. 10027                               

                Phone: 212-854-1770. Fax: 212-749-1497

       E-mail: seymour@columbia.edu

                Current rank: Senior Research Scholar

 

                University Services Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (since 2005).

                Curent rank: Honorary Senior Research Fellow

 

Citizenship:    USA

 

Higher Education:

       Undergraduate:  Yale University, 1953-1957 (Major: History)

 

                Graduate:       Columbia University, 1957-1967 (intermittently)

                     Major:  Public Law and Government

                                                Minor:  Chinese History

                  Degrees, etc:  M. A., 1960

                                East Asian Institute, Certificate, 1961

Ph.D., 1968

       (Dissertation: "The Policies of the Chinese Communists toward China's Intellectuals and Professionals")

 

                Abroad: Shih-fan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1961

 

Specializations:        Chinese Politics; Comparative Human Rights

 

Languages:              Chinese, French

 

Previous occupational experience:  (approx. in reverse chronological order)

Columbia University: Visiting Assoc. Prof., Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures (1978-1979)

New York University, 1967-1981 (various appointments in Washington Square College of Arts and Science [Politics Department chairman, 1970-71], Graduate School of Arts and Science, University Without Walls, and Gallatin Division)

New School for Social Research, 1974-1975

Amnesty International: member, National Advisory Committee (advisor on East Asia); human rights missions, etc. Member of China Coordination Group; founder, Group 9.)

 

 

Publications:

 

Books:

 

China: The Politics of Revolutionary Reintegration (New York: Harper and Row / T. Y. Crowell, 1976)

 

The Fifth Modernization: China's Human Rights Movement, 1978-l979 (New York: Earl M. Coleman Enterprises, 1980). Edited collection of underground essays, with annotation and commentary. Introduction (co-authored with Mab Huang)


 

China Rights Annals, Volume 1: Human Rights Developments in the People's Republic of China, October 1983-September 1984 (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc: 1985)

 

China's Satellite Parties (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1987). Published "internally" in Chinese as Zhongguo de weixingdang (Beijing: Central Socialist Theory Research and Teaching Institute, 1992).

 

Introduction to Comparative Politics (co-author, with 8 others). New York: HarperCollins, 1985-93. Author of China section for three editions.)

 

New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China (with Richard Anderson) M. E. Sharpe, 1998. Chinese version published by Mirror Books (Hong Kong) in 1999 as司马晋, 徒生: 中國勞改營紀實.

 

 

Publications edited:

 

Chinese Law and Government (quarterly published by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.) 1968-1971.   Also, guest editor of special fall 1988 issue, Cadre Accountability to the Law.

Chinese Sociology and Anthropology (quarterly published by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.), Fall-Winter 1982-83: guest co-editor of special double issue comprised of annotated version of "Prison Memoirs" of Liu Qing (co-edited).

SPEAHRhead: Bulletin of the Society for the Protection of East Asians' Human Rights, 1979-1984--a quarterly on human Rights in East Asia which appeared for five years.

The Potomac Conference, October 5 - 6, 1992, SinoTibetan Relations: Prospects for the Future (co-editor). On-line publication: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/area/tibet-potomac/.

Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Spring 1994: guest co-editor of special issue concerning religion in contemporary China.

Tibet Through Dissident Chinese Eyes: Essays on Self-Determination Book co-edited with Cao Changqing. White Plains, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. (Seymour wrote introductions to both English and Chinese editions.)

Zhang Sizhi and the Role of the Defense Attorney in China's Judiciary. Spring 1998: guest co-editor of Chinese Law & Government.

 

 

Articles (partial listing):

"[Constitutional history of the] Korean People's Democratic Republic," in Constitutions of the Countries of the World, edited by A. P. Blaustein and Gisbert Flanz (1972; revised version, 1978 [new constitution])

"[Constitutional history of the] Republic of China [Taiwan]," in Blaustein and Flanz, (1974)

"The American Student Movement and China's Red Guards: A Comparative Study," in Renwu yu sixiang (Hong Kong), November 1969 (in Chinese)

"Questions Concerning Human Rights in China," Observer Monthly (Hong Kong), March 1979. (In Chinese)

"Homosexuality in the People's Repubic of China," RFD, Spring 1979

"Gansu" (unpublished paper--part of project on Chinese provincial politics/history/economics organized by Edwin Winckler)

"Indices of Political Imprisonment," Universal Human Rights,  January 1979


"Supporting Democracy in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan)." With Raymond D. Gastil. In Freedom House's Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1983, edited by R. D. Gastil.

"The Abortive Attempt to Democratize China's Political System," in Ronald A. Morse, ed., The Limits of Reform in China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1983)

"Remove the Fetters from Taiwan's Press." The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, 16 July 1984.

"Bones in the Eggs?" Index on Censorship (London), August 1984. (About China's campaign against "Spiritual Pollution.")

"The Mind of the Censor." Index on Censorship, (London), May 1985. 

Commentary for minutes of Taiwan Garrison Command meeting: "Taiwan's Thought-Police." Index on Censorship June and August, 1985. (Two-part series.)

"Taiwan Pays the Price of Repression." Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, Aug. 5, 1985.

Commentary for Xu Wenli's "My Self-Defence," Index on Censorship, May 1986.

"China's Satellite Parties Today," Asian Survey, September 1986.

"Dark View from a Taiwan Prison," Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, Sept. 29, 1986

"What's Ahead for Hong Kong," Journal of Commerce, March 13, 1987. (Tranlsated in Zhongbao, April 1, 1987.)

"Taiwan in 1987: A Year of Political Bombshells," Asian Survey, January 1988.

"Taiwan in 1988: No More Bandits," Asian Survey, January 1989.

"Cadre Accountability to the Law," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1989, pp 1-27.

"Human Rights and the Law in the People's Republic of China," in Victor Falkenheim, ed., Chinese Politics from Mao to Deng, (New York: Paragon, 1989)

"The Position of the Executive in [Hong Kong's] Future Special Administrative Region, Da Xue (Academia), December 1989

"The International Reaction to the Crackdown in China," in China Information (Leiden), April 1990, pp. 1-14. A Chinese translation was published in Shijie ribao (New York).

"Four Steps to Taiwan Political Reform," Asian Wall Street Journal, June 29, 1990.

"Hong Kong: The Outlook for Human Rights," Newsletter of the Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for Democracy and Human Rights," 2:14, Dec. 9, 1990.

"China's Minor Parties and the Crisis of 1989," China Information, Spring 1991.

"Political Imprisonment in China Since Tiananmen," Proceedings of the 33rd International Congress of Asian and North African Studies," vol. 4 (Queenston, Ontario: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)

"National Assembly Elections: No `Level Playing Field,'" Taiwan Communiqué, January 1992.

Four entries in Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, edited by Edwin Leung (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.)

"A Half Century Later," in Roger Jeans, ed., Roads Not Taken: The Struggle of Opposition Parties in Twentieth-Century China (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992)


"Human Rights and Tibet: The Many Layers of Contradictions" (in Chinese, translated by Liao Jianming), Human Rights Tribune, III:1, Spring 1992, pp. 37-39.

"China's Democracy Movement: What the Agenda Has Been Missing," in Susan Whitfield, ed., After the Event: Human Rights and Their Future in China (London: Wellsweep, 1993).

"Review Essay: Toward an East Asian Confederation of Independent States?" Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1993, 24: 3.

"The Rights of Ethnic Minorities in China: Lessons of the Soviet Demise," American Asian Review, 2:2, Summer 1993, 401-413.

"Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations," in Samuel S. Kim, 3d ed. (China and the World: Chinese Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War Era) and (new essay) 4th ed, (China and the World: Chinese Foreign Policy Faces the New Millennium) (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994, 1998), pp. 202-225.

"Collective Rights and Nationality: Self-determination and the Future of the Chinese Empire," China Rights Forum, English version: spring 1995, pp. 4-7; Chinese version ("Jiti quanli he minzu zizhue"): summer 1995, pp. 42-43+36.

"Taiwan and the United Nations," The American Asian Review, 13:4, Winter 1995-96.

"Hong Kong: The Outlook for Human Rights," American Asian Review, Spring 1996. Chinese version in Ren yu renquan, Summer 1996.

"Zhonguoren kandai Xizang wenti de lishixing zhuanhuan" (Changing Chinese Views on the History of the Tibet Question). Zhongguo zhi chun (China Spring), July 1996, pp. 86-95. Translated by Xiao Hui.

"Zangren zhi Zang bu duixian; Gangren zhi Gang you ru he?" (Tibetan Autonomy Not Honored; Same for Hong Kong?) Xianggang jingji ribao (Hong Kong Economic Journal, Sept. 1, 1997)

"Hong Kong's Politics Under Chinese Rule: A Preliminary Assessment,"  American Asian Review, XVI:2, Summer 1998, pp. 1-19.

"Nationalism of the Lost Nations." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, January-March 1999, pp. 70-73.

"Does the Falun Gong Pose a Political Threat?" Taipei Times, July 15, 1999. (Chinese version appeared in the Hong Kong  Pingguo ribao (Apple Daily), July 27, 1999.

"The Wheel of Law and the Rule of Law," China Rights Forum, Fall 1999.

"Strafvollzug in China," der übrblick, April 2000.

“Well-founded Fear: China Ignores International Law in its Treatment of North Korean Refugees,” China Rights Forum, autumn    2000.

“Xinjiang’s Production and Construction Corps, and the Sinification of Eastern Turkestan,” Inner Asia, 2, 2000, pp 171-193.

China and the International Asylum Regime: Case of the North Korean Refugees.” Institute Reports, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, October 2000.

“Sanctions or Subdued Relations: The International Response to the 1989 Massacre,” in Scott Kennedy, ed., China Cross Talk: The American Debate over China Policy since Normalization (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

“Saving Asia’s Environment,” Critical Asian Studies, 35:2, June 2003, pp. 325-335.

“’The Nation State:’ A Concept Whose Time has Passed” (in Chinese); Hong Kong Apple Daily, March 17,2004.

China’s Environment: A Bibliographic Essay,” in Kristen A. Day, ed., China’s Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 248-273.


China: Background Paper on Human Rights with Special Reference to North Koreans in China (study commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), 2005, http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RSDCOI&id=4231d11d4 .

“Ethnic Conflicts: East Asia,” in Thomas Leonard, ed.,  Encyclopedia of the Developing World, 3 vols., New York: Routledge, 2005, vol 1, pp 602-605.

“Sizing Up China’s Prisons,” in Børge Bakken, Crime, Punishment  and Policing in China,Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, pp 141-167.

“Profit and Loss in China’s Contemporary Prison system,” in Philip Williams and Yenna Wu, eds, Remoulding and Resistance among writers of the Chinese Prison camp: Disciplined and Published. London: Routledge, 2006

“The Exodus: North Korea’s Out-migration,” in John Feffer, ed., The Future of US-Korean Relations: The Imbalance of Power, London, Routledge, 2006, pp. 130-159.

                                                                                                                                               

Also: Book reviews; most of the original material in SPEAHRhead (see above), etc.

 

 

Papers and presentations (partial listing):

"Maoists and Modernization," University of Connecticut Symposium on the Chinese Communist Movement, 27 March 1971

"The Deparochialization of Political Science," New York University Colloquium on Politics, 28 September 1971

"China as an Actor in World Politics," Conference on Asian Studies, State University of New York / Brockport, 7 October 1971

"Approaches to the Analysis of Chinese Foreign Policy," Columbia University Seminar on Modern China, 25 October 1972

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in Taiwan: Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, June 1974

"The Economics of Human Rights Deprivation: The Case of Taiwan," Midwest Conference in Asian Affairs, 15 October 1976

"Political Prisoners in Mainland China and Taiwan" (co-authored with Mab Huang), Association for Asian Studies conference,

      30 October 1976. (Chaired panel on "Political Prisoners in East Asia")

"Human Rights as a Social Science Sub-discipline," International Studies Association, St. Louis, 18 March 1977. (Chaired panel on "Human Rights and Social Change.")

Official testimony (invitational): "Human Rights in the People's Republic of China," Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 10 February 1978

"World Federalism: The Human Rights Dimension," conference sponsored by World Federalists, New York, 14 May 1977

"Human Rights in the People's Republic of China," New York, 17 April 1978. Meeting sponsored by the National Council of Churches

"Comparative Measures of Human Rights Development," Universities of Colorado and Denver Conference on International Human Rights, 12 May 1978

"Strategy and Promise for Promoting Human Rights: The Case of Taiwan," Syracuse University Human Rights Conference, 7 October 1978

Human rights speaking tour, December-January 1977-78 (seven addresses in Japan, Taiwan, and India)

"Taiwan Politics in the Wake of Normalization," Contemporary China Workshop, Columbia University, 8 March 1979

"The Impact of Carter's China Policy," International Studies Association, Toronto, 23 March 1979

"Human Rights in Asian Societies: Culture and System," Association for Asian Studies, Washington, 23 March 1980 (organizer and chairperson of panel)

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in China: Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, and the Subcommittee on Asia and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1 October 1980

"Political Trials in China," Conference on the Trial of the "Gang of Four," New School for Social Research, 31 January 1981

"A Political Assessment of the 'Gang of Four' Trial," Rutgers University Symposium: "The Trial of the Gang of Four in China," 12 February 1981

"Human Rights in China," St. Johns University conference, 2 March 1981

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in Taiwan: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, 19 May 1981

"Modern Economics without Modern Politics: The Case of Taiwan," American Political Science Association (Northeastern regional meeting), 13 November 1981

"The Question of Democracy in China," Washington, Wilson Center conference on "The Limits of Reform in China," 3 May 1982

"The Spirit of China's May Fourth Movement: What it Means Today," Johns Hopkins University, 4 May 1982.

"The Taiwan Question: Policy Implications for the United States," meeting in Rayborn Office Building, House of Representatives, on the Taiwan question, 20 May 1982.

Spoke at press conference sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy on human rights problems in Taiwan. Senate Office Building, Washington D. C., 10 December 1982. (Represented Amnesty International.)

Spoke at press conference sponsored by Congressman Stephen Solarz  (chairman, House Asia-Pacific Subcommittee), et al, on subject of martial law in Taiwan. Senate Office Building, Washington D. C., 20 May 1983. (Represented Amnesty International.)

"Human Rights and the Law in the People's Republic of China," Third International Congress of Professors World Peace Academy," Manila, Philippines, August 25, 1987.

"Human Rights and the Constitutional Order in China," American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, September 4, 1987.

"The Status of the Taiwan's Political Opposition," Asia Society Conference concerning Taiwan, September 26, 1987.

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in China: Hearings before a plenary session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, September, 1987.

"Recent Human Rights Developments in China," Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Association for Chinese Studies, Washington, October 24, 1987.

"Dulles and the Third World: An Assessment." John Foster Dulles Centennial Conference, Princeton University, February 28, 1988.

"Chinese Intellectuals and the Promotion of Democracy since the May Fourth Movement." Conference on the History of Democratic Movements in Twentieth Century China, sponsored by the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China, Columbia University, May 22, 1988.

"Hong Kong: The Political Challenge." Association for Asian Studies (New England), Harvard University, October 14, 1989.

"Hong Kong: The Human Rights Outlook," Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Chicago, April, 1990.

"The Outlook for Human Rights in Hong Kong." Conference of the Canadian Association of China Scholars, Aug. 19, 1990.

"Political Imprisonment Since Tiananmen." Thirty-third International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), Toronto, August 20, 1990.

"Blue Princes: The Satellization of China's Minor Parties, and Their Behavior During the Crisis of 1989," at conference "Opposition Politics in Twentieth-Century China," Washington & Lee University, Lexington VA, September 20-22, 1990.

Presentation at workship on "The Relationship between political economic and cultural conditions, and Chinese human rights conditions," at the Second North American Community-Based Organization Conference on Human Rights and Democracy in China," Toronto, April 6-7, 1991.

"The Relationship between Political Rights and Economic Development: The Cases of China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC), at panel "Changing Relations Between Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait," sponsored by the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China in North America in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New Orleans, April 12, 1991

"China's Democracy Movement: What the Agenda Has Been Missing," at the conference on "Rights in China: What Happans Next," University of London (SOAS), June 28, 1991.

"Deconstructing the Artificial Nation State: The Implications of the Soviet Disintegration for the People's Republic of China. Conference on "Democracy and Diversity in Asia: Chinese-Tibetan Relations," New York, October 12-13, 1991

"Human Rights and Tibet: The Many Layers of Contradictions," Twentieth Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 31, 1991.

"`The Crux of the Struggle:' Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations," University Seminar on Modern China Columbia University, December 9, 1993

Official testimony (invitational) on the question of Taiwan's admission to the United Nations: Hearings before a joint session of two subcommittees of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 14, 1994.

Briefing prepared for H.H. The Dalai Lama, “Current Trends in Sino-American Relations, with Special Reference to the Question of Tibet,” September 1, 1995

"New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: The Prison Systems of Northwest China." Paper presented to the University Seminar on Modern China, Columbia University, September 12, 1996.

"China's Prison System Today." Paper presented at the Oslo Conference on Crime and Control in China and the West, September 18-21, 1999.

"Thinking Realistically about Today's Prisons System in China," conference on "The Chinese Labor Camp: Theory, Actuality, and Fictional Representation," University of California/Riverside conference, January 15, 2000.


"Ethnic and Special Autonomy in China." Panel chair and discussant at Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 10, 2000.

“Taiwan 2000 Presidential Election,” Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong, March 21, 2000.

"Mounting a Campaign for North Koreans’ Human Rights," Conference on North Korea, Seoul, December 8, 2000.

“Recent Developments in the Management of China’s Prisons,” Association for Asian studies, Mid-Atlantic Region conference, George Washington University, Washington DC, October 26, 2003

Official testimony (invitational) on the subject of China’s prisons, before the Congressional Executive Commission on China, October 27, 2003

“Why the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is Different from China’s Other Autonomous Aras,” Conference on Ethnic Autonomy in China, Hong Kong University, Feb. 21, 2006

Conference on Human Rights Education. Soochow University東吳大學, Taipei, Taiwan, May 22-25, 2006. Keynote speech: “Human Rights: The End of Innocence.” Also panel talk: “China and the International Human Rights Regime.”

 

 

Affiliations, current (partial listing):

 

Association for Asian Studies (Life Member)

China Information (Leiden), member, Editorial Board

China Labor Watch, member, Board of Directors

Chinese Law and Government, founder; now member of Editorial Board)

Columbia University Seminar: Modern China (chair or co-chair, 1979-80, 1986-87, 1998-2005)

Critical Asian Studies (until 2002: Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars), member, Editorial Board

Fire Island Ecology (Executive Director, 1999-   )

Human Rights Watch (member, Advisory Committee)

Human Rights Quarterly (member, Editorial Review Board)

Society for the Protection of East Asians' Human Rights: (Exec. Dir., 1979- )