Dr. Xiaobo Lu

Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Dr. Lu was the first Asian American to be appointed to the position of Associate Professor of Political Science. He received an Individual Project Fellowship from Open Society Institute in 1998-99 and was appointed a National Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University for the same year. In 2001, the Council on Foreign Relations named him an International Affairs Fellow. He has published widely on these subjects and is the author of the book Cadres and Corruption (Stanford University Press, 2000) and co-author of Danwei: Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective (1997). He has just finished another book on political and economic changes in the Chinese countryside, entitled Taxation without Representation in Rural China, (Cambridge University, 2003). Professor Lu serves on the editorial board of several academic journals and has received numerous teaching awards. He received his PhD in political science from UC Berkeley in 1994.