Anthony Saich

Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
Director,
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Office Address
124 Mt. Auburn - Suite 520N-508
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 130
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-5713
Fax: 617-495-4948
Email: Anthony_Saich@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Jessica Eykholt (617-496-0264)
Anthony Saich

Profile

Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He is Faculty Chair of the Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This work includes significant training programs for national and local officials from China, including a program to help Beijing officials prepare for the Olympics. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the Fairbank Center and the Universitys Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this he was the director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He first visited China as a student in 1976-77 and has been there for longer or shorter trips almost each year since. Currently, he is also a guest Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He has advised a wide range of government, private and not-for-profit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia. He is a member of the Trustees of the China Medical Board of New York and International Bridges to Justice. His current research focuses on the interplay between state and society in China and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level. He has written several books on developments in China, including: Chinas Science Policy in the 80s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Maos China (1994, with David E. Apter); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996); The Governance and Politics of China (2004); Providing Public Goods in Transitional China (forthcoming). He has just edited a book on the urbanization of China (2008, with Shahid Yusuf). He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in England, Holland, and the U.S.

Courses

Spring

  • PAL-110 Political Institutions and Public Policy
  • PED-312 The Political Economy of Transition in China

Media Expertise

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Kleinman, Arthur M., Barry R. Bloom, Anthony Saich, Katherine A. Mason, and Felicity Aulino. "Asian Flus in Ethnographic and Political Context: A Biosocial Approach." Anthropology & Medicine 15.1 (April 2008): 1-5.
    • Kleinman, Arthur M., Barry R. Bloom, Anthony Saich, Katherine A. Mason, and Felicity Aulino. "Avian and Pandemic Influenza: A Biosocial Approach." Journal of Infectious Diseases 197 (February 15, 2008): S1-S3.
    • Saich, Anthony. "Citizens' Perceptions of Governance in Rural and Urban China." Journal of Chinese Political Science 12.1 (Spring 2007): 1-28.
    • Saich, Anthony. "China in 2006: Focus on Social Development." Asian Survey 47.1 (February 2007): 32-43.
    • Saich, Anthony. "China in 2005: Hu's in Charge." Asian Survey 46.1 (February 2006): 37-46.
  • Book Chapters
    • Saich, Anthony. "Social Policy Development in the Era of Economic Reform." AIDS and Social Policy in China. Ed. Joan Kaufman, Arthur Kleinman, and Anthony Saich. Harvard University Asia Center, 2006, 15-46.
    • Kaufman, Joan, Arthur Kleinman, and Anthony Saich. "Introduction: AIDS and Social Policy in China." AIDS and Social Policy in China. Ed. Joan Kaufman, Arthur Kleinman, and Anthony Saich. Harvard University Asia Center, 2006, 3-14.
    • Saich, Anthony, and Xuedong Yang. "Selecting Within the Rules: Institutional Innovation in China's Governance." Grass-roots Democracy in India and China: The Right to Participate. Ed. Manoranjan Mohanty, Richard Baum, Rong Ma, and George Mathew. Sage Publications, 2007, 93-122.
    • Saich, Anthony. "The Changing Role of Urban Government." China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, and Policies. Ed. Shahid Yusuf and Anthony Saich. World Bank Publications, 2008, 181-206.
  • Edited Volumes
    • Kaufman, Joan, Arthur Kleinman, and Anthony Saich, eds. AIDS and Social Policy in China. Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.
    • Yusuf, Shahid, and Anthony Saich China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, and Policies. World Bank Publications, 2008.