REMINDER: [HKS China Salon] Professor William Kirby (哈佛中国基金主席及费正清中国研究中心主任): "Can China Lead?"
Law, Michael
--China Salon: "Can China Lead?"
– with Prof. William Kirby
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS; Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Chairman of the Harvard China Fund
哈佛大学T. M. Chang 中国研究讲席教授，哈佛商学院Spangler Family 讲席教授，哈佛大学杰出贡献教授，费正清中国研究中心主任，哈佛中国基金主席
Date: March 28, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30 - 6:00pm
Location: Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building G/F, Wiener Auditorium
Working Language: English
Organized by Harvard Kennedy School China Society
Limited seats, please register with us via the link below!
Contact Person:
Michael Law: Micha...@hks14.harvard.edu
Bizhao Zhang: Bizhao...@hks14.harvard.edu
Biography of Professor William KirbyWilliam C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund.
A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby’s work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950s; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China’s relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States.
Before coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of History, Director of Asian Studies, and Dean of University College at Washington University in St. Louis. At Harvard, he has served as Chair of the History Department, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As Dean, he led Harvard’s largest school, with 10,000 students, 1,000 faculty members, 2,500 staff, and an annual budget of $1 billion.
As Dean he initiated major reforms in undergraduate education in Harvard College; enhanced Harvard’s international studies at home and abroad; increased substantially financial aid in the College and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; supported the growth of the Division (now School) of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and oversaw the construction of major new buildings in the Life Sciences, Engineering, and the Arts. During his tenure, the Faculty expanded at its most rapid rate since the 1960s.
Professor Kirby holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and (Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa) the Free University of Berlin. He is Honorary Professor at Fudan University, Chongqing University, Peking University, Nanjing University, East China Normal University, and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He has held appointments also as Visiting Professor at University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
柯伟林教授是哈佛大学T. M. Chang 中国研究讲席教授，哈佛商学院Spangler Family 讲席教授。柯伟林教授曾获哈佛大学杰出贡献教授称号，现在担任费正清中国研究中心主任和哈佛中国基金主席。
柯伟林教授是现代中国史学家，他的研究关注国际环境下的中国商业、经济和政治发展，他的作品主题广涉现代中国商业发展（包括国有与私营商业）、中国公司法和公司组织、中国自由史、1950年代国际范围内的社会主义经济、海峡两岸关系、中欧及中美关系等。他目前从事的研究包括当代中国商业和中美高等教育比较研究。
柯伟林教授是北京大学、南京大学、重庆大学和复旦大学名誉访问教授。他还被海德堡大学、柏林自由大学聘为访问教授。柯伟林教授1992年接受哈佛教席前，曾任华盛顿大学圣路易分校历史学教授、亚洲研究中心主任和大学学院院长（Dean of University College）。在哈佛大学，柯伟林教授历任历史系主任、亚洲研究中心主任和哈佛文理学院院长。
从2002到2006年担任哈佛文理学院院长期间，柯伟林教授不仅推动了对哈佛本科教育的重大改革、促进了哈佛大学在海内外的国际研究、大幅度增加了哈佛文理学院和文理研究院奖学金数量，还支持了工程和应用科学系（如今已经建院）的发展，并主持修建了生命科学、工程和人文艺术各学科的新科研与办公大楼。柯伟林教授在任院长期间，是自1960年以来哈佛文理学院教授数量增长最迅速的阶段。
柯伟林教授毕业于达特茅斯学院、哈佛大学和柏林自由大学（获博士学位）。他也是美国文理学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士。
Michael LawMPA/ID Candidate, Class of 2014Harvard | Kennedy | School
