William C. Kirby is Geisinger professor of history and a scholar of Chinese history and culture at Harvard University and is the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. After a controversial four-year tenure in which he clashed both with the Harvard faculty and its President, Lawrence Summers, he announced on January 27, 2006 that he would resign as Dean.
A historian of modern China, his work examines China's economic and political development in an international context. He has written on China's relations with Europe; the history of modern Chinese capitalism; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950's; and relations across the Taiwan Strait. Kirby received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His current projects include: the foreign relations of post-1949 China; Chinese business organization, past and present; and a global history of the 20th century.
Publications
- A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (forthcoming)
- China and the World: Internationalization, Internalization, Externalization (Zhongguo yu shije: guojihua, neihua yu waihua) co-editor (2007)
- Global Conjectures: China in Transnational Perspective, co-editor (2006)
- Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History, co-editor (2006)
- Realms of Freedom in the Modern Chinese World, editor (2004)
- State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars, author (2001)
- Germany and Republican China, author (1984)
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