Harry Harding (1946—) is a leading China specialist in the United States. He has advised several US Presidents on developments in the PRC; before the Tiananmen Square demonstrations he was brought to Camp David for informal discussions with the first Bush administration. He has written several books, including the seminal China's Second Revolution, regularly cited by Chinese officials as influencing their present five-year plan. Harding has a Chinese name: 何汉理 (Pinyin: Hé Hànlǐ). 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... PRC is a common abbreviation for: Peoples Republic of China Palestinian Red Crescent Popular Resistance Committees This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) between April 15, 1989 and June 4, 1989. ... The West Wing, see NSF Thurmont (The West Wing). ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ...

Biography

Dr. Harding was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946. He received his B.A. in public and international affairs in 1967 from Princeton University, and his M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1974) in political science from Stanford University. Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...

Dr. Harding served on the political science faculties of Swarthmore College (1970-71) and Stanford University (1971-83) and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He then became Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94), and, later, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a post he held for more than 10 years (January 1995 – June 30, 2005). Dr. Harding is widely credited for making the Elliott School an internationally competitive graduate program. Upon his retirement from that post, Harding accepted a University Professorship at the School. On August 1, 2005, Harding joined Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy, as the firm's Director of Research and Analysis. Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ... Hoover Tower at the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. ... The Brookings Institution is one of the oldest and best known think tanks in the United States. ... The Elliott School of International Affairs is a division of the George Washington University located in Washington, D.C. specializing in foreign affairs and diplomacy. ...   The George Washington University (GWU), or informally, G.W., is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university located in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1821 as the Columbian College, the university has since developed into a leading educational and research institution. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Eurasia Group is a global political risk consultancy, founded in 1998. ...

Selected bibliography

• Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (Stanford University Press, 1981), ISBN 0-8047-1080-5
• China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (Yale University Press, 1984), ISBN 0-300-03207-2 (ed.)
• China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (Brookings Institution, 1987), ISBN 0-8157-3462-X
• China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension (University Press of America, 1988), ISBN 0-8191-6591-3
• Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade (SR Books, 1989), ISBN 0-8420-2333-X (ed. with Yuan Ming)
• A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (Brookings Institution, 1992), ISBN 0-8157-3466-2
• The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (Columbia University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-231-13236-0 (ed. with Francine R. Frankel)

External links

• Professor Harding's home page at George Washington University