Anthony Saich

Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
Director
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Office Address
124 Mt. Auburn - Suite 200N-214
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 74
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-5713
Fax: 617-495-4948
Email: Anthony_Saich@harvard.edu
Assistant
Jessica Eykholt (617-496-0264)
Anthony Saich

Profile

Anthony Saich is the Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, the Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Faculty Chair of the China Public Policy Program. This work includes significant training programs for national and local officials from China. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the Fairbank Center and the University's Asia Center. In addition, he is the Harvard representative of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this, he was Director of the Sinological Institute at 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 Asia 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 Mao's China (1994, with David E. Apter); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996);Providing Public Goods in Transitional China (2008) and The Governance and Politics of China (2011, 3rd edition). He has edited books on the reform of China's financial sector (2005, with Yasheng Huang and Edward Steinfeld), HIV/AIDS (2006, with Joan Kaufman and Arthur Kleinman) and on China's urbanization (2008, with Shahid Yusuf). He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in China, England, Holland, and the U.S. Away from the office, he enjoys time with his two children, movies, and soccer.

Courses

Spring

  • DPI-450 The Political Economy of Transition in China

Media Expertise

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Research

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

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Book Chapters
    • Saich, Anthony. "Citizen Satisfaction with Government Performance: Public Opinion in Rural and Urban China." Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life. Ed. Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Weiming Tu. Routledge, 2010, 199-214.