Dr. Stanley Rosen
Professor, Political Science
and Director, East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California
Stanley Rosen is a professor of political science at the University of Southern
California specializing in Chinese
politics and society and the director of the East Asian Studies Center at USC. In addition, he holds a secondary appointment
at the Annenberg School for Communication.
He studied Chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has traveled
to mainland China more than thirty times over the last twenty
five years. His courses
range from Chinese politics and Chinese film to political change in Asia, comparative
politics theory, and politics and film in comparative perspective. The author or
editor of six books and many articles, he has written on such topics as the Cultural
Revolution, the Chinese legal system, public opinion, youth, education, gender, human rights, film
and the media. His most recent book,
co-edited with Peter Hays Gries, is entitled State and Society in 21st-century China
[RoutledgeCurzon, 2004]. He is the editor of the translation journal Chinese Education and Society and a frequent
guest editor of other translation journals. Among his
current projects are a study of the "reverse brain drain," which examines the situation of those
who had studied abroad and then returned to China (in collaboration with
David Zweig); a study of the Chinese film industry and its efforts to compete with
Hollywood both domestically and internationally; a retrospective volume on the last
hundred years of Chinese film (co-edited with Ying Zhu), a co-edited book on Chinese
higher education (with Gerard Postiglione); the rise of materialism and the changing
values of Chinese youth; and a study of
the reform of higher education at Beijing
University.
In addition to his academic activities
at USC, Professor Rosen has escorted twelve delegations to China for the National Committee
on US-China Relations, been
an invited observer at a series of elections in Taiwan from 1991-2004, and consulted for the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the
United States Information Agency, the state of Oklahoma, the Los Angeles Public Defenders Office and a
number of private corporations and law firms.