Andrew J. Nathan

Andrew James Nathan (Chinese: 黎安友; pinyin: Lí Ānyǒu; born 3 April 1943) is a professor of political science at Columbia University. He specializes in Chinese politics, foreign policy, human rights and political culture. He has taught at Columbia University since 1971, and currently serves as the chair of the steering committee for the Center for the Study of Human Rights. His previous appointments include as the chair of the Department of Political Science (2003–2006), and chair of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (1991–1995).^[1]

Andrew J. Nathan
Born	Andrew James Nathan (1943-04-03) April 3, 1943 (age 82) United States
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation(s)	Scholar, writer, professor
Awards	Berlin Prize (2013)
Chinese name
Chinese	黎安友
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lí Ānyǒu Wade–Giles Li2 An1-yu3

Nathan also serves as an advisor or board member with Freedom House, Human Rights in China,^[2] the National Endowment for Democracy and Human Rights Watch Asia^[3] and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Democracy, China Quarterly, and the Journal of Contemporary China, among others.^[1][4][5] He is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.^[6]

He was awarded a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.^[7]

Education and career

Nathan was born to Paul and Dorothy Nathan. He has a brother Carl F. Nathan, a scientist, and a sister Janet.^[8] Nathan attended Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. in history, an M.A. in East Asian studies, and a Ph.D. in political science.

In 1979 he married Roxane Witke, an historian of China.^[9] The marriage ended in divorce. He is married to Joanne R. Bauer, co-founder of Rights CoLab and an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

Books

• A History of the China International Famine Relief Commission. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University; Harvard East Asian Monographs, 1965).
• Modern China, 1840-1972: An Introduction to Sources and Research Aids, University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies (Ann Arbor, MI), 1973.
• Peking Politics, 1918–1923 : Factionalism and the Failure of Constitutionalism. (Berkeley: University of California Press, Michigan Studies on China, 1976). Reprinted: Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998. ISBN 0520027841.
• Chinese Democracy. (New York: Knopf, 1985). ISBN 039451386X.
• with David G. Johnson and Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, ed., Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. (Berkeley: University of California Press, Studies on China, 1985). ISBN 0520051203.
• Human Rights in Contemporary China (1986)
• China's Crisis (1990)
• with Robert Ross, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security (1997)
• China's Transition (1997)
• with Perry Link, The Tiananmen Papers (2001)
• Negotiating Culture and Human Rights: Beyond Universalism and Relativism (2001)
• with Bruce Gilley, China's New Rulers: The Secret Files (2002, second edition 2003)^[10]
• Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (2003)
• How East Asians View Democracy (2008)
• with Robert Ross, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress, second edition (2009)
• with Andrew Scobell. China's Search for Security. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012). ISBN 0231140509.

Articles and chapters

• Andrew J. Nathan (April 1993). "The Legislative Yuan Elections in Taiwan: Consequences of the Electoral System". Asian Survey. 33 (4): 424–38. doi:10.2307/2645107. JSTOR 2645107.