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 and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, teaching courses on comparative political institutions, democratic governance, and transitional economies with a focus on China. In his capacity as Ash Center Director, Saich also serves as the director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the faculty chair of the China Public Policy Program, the Asia Energy Leaders Program and the Leadership Transformation in Indonesia Program, which provide training programs for national and local Chinese and Indonesian officials.Saich first visited China as a student in 1976 and continues to visit each year. Currently, he is a guest professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He also advises a wide range of government, private, and nonprofit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia.

Saich is a trustee member of AMC Entertainment Inc., the China Medical Board, and International Bridges to Justice. He is also the US Secretary-General of the China United States Strategic Philanthropy. He sits on the executive committees of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Asia Center, both at Harvard University. He serves as the Harvard representative of the Kennedy Memorial Trust and previously was the representative for the Ford Foundations China Office from 1994 to 1999. Prior to this, he was director of the Sinological Institute at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

His current research focuses on politics and governance in post-Mao China, Chinas urbanization and rural-urban inequality in China; and 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. His most recent books include Chinese Village, Global Market (2012); Governance and Politics of China (Third Edition, 2010); Providing Public Goods in Transitional China (2008); Revolutionary Discourse in Maos Republic (with David Apter, 1998); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996); and Chinas Science Policy in the 80s (1989); He has edited books on China's urbanization (with Shahid Yusuf, 2008), HIV/AIDS (with Joan Kaufman and Arthur Kleinman, 2006), and the reform of Chinas financial sector.

He holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Letters, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He received his masters degree in politics with special reference to China from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and his bachelors degree in politics and geography from the University of Newcastle, UK. Away from the office, he enjoys time with his two children, movies, and soccer.

Courses

Not Offered

  • 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. "Chinese Communist Party." The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics. Ed. Joel Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2012, 170-172.
    • Saich, Anthony. "Tiananmen Square." The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics. Ed. Joel Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2012, 442-443.
  • Books
    • Saich, Anthony, and Biliang Hu. Chinese Village, Global Market: New Collectives and Rural Development: China in Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
    • Saich, Anthony. "China, the USA, and Asia’s Future." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-052, 2012.
    • Saich, Anthony. "Developing Social Citizenship? A Case Study of Education and Health Services in Yantian Village, Guangdong." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-053, 2012.
    • Saich, Anthony. "The Quality of Governance in China: The Citizen’s View." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-051, 2012.