DATE: May August, 2005

NAME: BENEDICT R. STAVIS

EDUCATION, UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE:

    Haverford College, 1963 (Political Science), B.A.
    Columbia University, 1966 (Public Law and Government), M.A.
    Columbia University, 1973 (Political Science), Ph.D.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:

    Political Dimensions of the Technical Transformation of Agriculture
    in China, 1973, Columbia University

CURRENT POSITION:

    Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science,
    Temple University, 1989-

    Director, Asian Studies Program, 1995-2003

    YEAR APPOINTED AT TEMPLE AND RANK AT APPOINTMENT:
        1989; Associate Professor

    YEAR TENURED: Spring 1992

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

    Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science Department,
    University of Iowa, 1987-89

    Visiting Professor Department of World Politics, Fudan University,
    Shanghai, China, Fall, 1986

    Assistant Professor, Political Science Department,
    University of Northern Iowa, 1983-86

    Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard
    University, 1981-1983

    Visiting Scholar, Institute of Asian Research,
    University of British Columbia, 1980-1981

    Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan
    State University, 1977-1982

    Research Associate, Center for International Studies and Programs
    on Policies for Science and Technology in Developing Nations,
    Cornell University, 1972-76
 

PUBLICATIONS:

    BOOKS PUBLISHED:

    China's Political Reforms: An Interim Report.  New York:  Praeger,
    1988.

    The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China.  Ithaca:
    Cornell University Press, 1978.

    We Were the Campaign: New Hampshire to Chicago for McCarthy.
    Boston:  Beacon, 1969.

    EDITED COLLECTIONS OF TRANSLATIONS:

    "Reform of China's Political System," special issue of Chinese Law
    and Government, 20:1 (Spring 1987).

    "China's Cropping System Debate," special issue of Chinese Economic
    Studies, with Hsin-hui Hsu, Caroline Hoisington, and Mitch Meisner,
    Winter 1981-82.

    MONOGRAPHS:

    Agricultural Extension for Small Farmers.  East Lansing: MSU
    Agricultural Economics Rural Development Series, Working Paper No.
    3, 1979.

    Turning Point in China's Agricultural Policy.  East Lansing:
    MSU Agricultural Economics Rural Development Series, Working Paper
    No. 1, 1979.

    Making Green Revolution: The Politics of Agricultural Development
    in China.  Ithaca: Cornell Rural Development
    Committee, 1974, 1975.

    People's Communes and Rural Development in China.  Ithaca:  Cornell
    Rural Development Committee, 1974.  Revised 1977.

    Rural Local Governance and Agricultural Development in Taiwan.
    Ithaca: Cornell Rural Development Committee, 1974.

    China's Green Revolution.  Ithaca: Cornell China-Japan Program,
    1974.

    RESEARCH ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

    "Decay, Conflict Resolution, and Institutions at Tiananmen Square,"
    Conflict Quarterly, 13:1 (Winter 1993), pp. 48-67.

    "Market Reforms and Growth in Crop Productivity in China."
    Pacific Affairs, 64:3 (Fall 1991), pp. 373-382.
 

     "China Explodes at Tiananmen," Asian Affairs, 17:2 (Summer 1990),
    pp. 51-61.

    "Contradictions in Communist Reform: China Before June 4, 1989,"
    Political Science Quarterly, 105:1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 31-52.

    "The Political Economy of Inflation in China," Studies in
    Comparative Communism, 22:2/3 (Spring-Summer, 1989), pp. 235-250.

    "A Survey of Shanghai Joint Ventures," with Ye Gang, China Business
    Review, March-April, 1988, pp. 46-48.

    "Research Report on Management of Joint Ventures in the
    Manufacturing Sector," with Ye Gang (in Chinese), Shanghai
    International Trade, Dec. 1987, pp. 6-11.

    "Reform of China's Political System," Chinese Law and Government,
    20:1 (Spring 1987), p. 3-14.

    "China's Political Reform in Global Perspective," (in Chinese)
    Political Science Abroad (Beijing), no. 4, 1987, pp. 23-27.

    "Some Initial Results of China's New Agricultural Policies,"  World
    Development, 13:12 (Dec. 1985), pp. 1299-1305.

    "Dilemmas in Strategies for Development," Pakistan Academy for
    Rural Development, 1981.

    "Agricultural Research and Extension Services in China," World
    Development 6:5 (May 1978), pp. 631-645.

    "China and the Comparative Analysis of Land Reform," Modern China
    4:4 (Jan. 1978), pp. 63-78.

    "Agricultural Performance and Policy: Contrasts with India," Social
    Scientist (Trivandrum, India), 4:10/11 (May/June 1977), pp. 58-80.

    "China's Rural Local Institutions in Comparative Perspective,"
    Asian Survey 16:4 (April 1976), pp. 381-96.

    "A Preliminary Model for China's Grain Production, 1974,"  China
    Quarterly No. 65 (March 1976), pp. 82-96.

    "Solving China's Food Problems: Technology and Politics,"
    Christianity and Crisis 35:19 (Nov. 24, 1975), pp. 278-82.

    "How China is Solving its Food Problem," Bulletin of Concerned
    Asian Scholars 7:3 (July-Sept. 1975), pp. 22-38.

    "Why China is not a Basket Case," China Notes 13:2 (Spring 1975),
    pp. 13-16.

    "China's Green Revolution," Monthly Review 26:5 (Oct. 1974), pp.
    18-29.

    "Agricultural Development in China," Understanding China Newsletter
    10:5 (Sept.-Oct. 1974), pp. 1-2 and 8.

    CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS:

    "The Dilemma of State Power: A Solution Becomes a Problem," in
    Victor Nee and David Mozingo, eds., State and Society in
    Contemporary China, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983, pp.
    175-93.

    "Rural Institutions in China," in Randolph Barker and Radha Sinha,
    The Chinese Agricultural Economy, Boulder: Westview, 1982, pp. 81-
    98.

    "Research and Extension in China," in Robert Anderson, Paul Brass,
    Edwin Levy and Barrie Morrison (eds.), Science, Politics and the
    Agricultural Revolution in Asia, AAAS Selected Symposium Series,
    Boulder: Westview, 1982, pp. 241-48.

    "The Impact of Agricultural Collectivization on Productivity in
    China," in Ronald A. Francisco, Betty Laird and Roy Laird, eds.,
    The Political Economy of Collectivized Agriculture, A Study of
    Communist and Non-Communist Systems (N.Y.: Pergamon Press, 1979),
    pp. 157-191.

    OTHER WORKS PUBLISHED:
    NEWSPAPER COLUMNS:

    "China's Violent Tragedy," Daily Iowan, June 12-13, 1989.

    "U.S.'s Effect on China's Human Rights," Des Moines Register,
    March 9, 1989.

    "U.S. Banks' Strategies in China," Asian Wall Street Journal
    Weekly, Feb. 6, 1989, p. 15.

    "How Reform is Changing Communist Nations," Des Moines Register,
    Oct. 6, 1988.

    "National Day in Taiwan," Christian Science Monitor, Oct.  7,
    1987.

    "Student Demonstrations in China," The Nation Magazine, April 11,
    1987, pp. 466-69.

    "Monthly Expenditures of a Foreign Expert," (in Chinese) Fudan,
    Jan. 3, 1987, p. 2.

    "Democracy Rising from Communism?" Des Moines Register, Dec.  25,
    1986.

    "Global Experience with Political Reform," (in Chinese) World
    Economic Herald (Shanghai), Nov. 3, 1986, p. 5.

    "Is China Developing into a Democracy?  Probably Not," Des Moines
    Register, Feb. 27, 1985, p. 7A.

    "Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China: What US Should Do,"
    Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 9, 1984, p. 23.

    "China turns to the West to Reach Modernization," Lansing State
    Journal, May 13, 1979.

    "Sowing the Seed of Political Stability," Far Eastern Economic
    Review, Oct. 4, 1974, pp. 39-40.
 

BOOK REVIEWS:

   Power and Wealth in Rural China, The Political Economy of Institutional
   Change, by Susan H. Whiting, for American Political Science Review, 96:1
  (March, 2002) pp. 252-253.

   Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist  Parties,
   by Bruce Dickson, for Ethnic Conflict Research Digest,
   Vol. 2 No. 2 (Sept.-Oct.) 1999.

    Transitions from State Socialism.  Economic and Political Change in
    Hungary and China by Yanqi Tong, for The Annals of the American
    Academy of Political and Social Science, May 1999, p. 222.

    Social Control in China, A Study of Chinese Work Units by Victor
    Shaw, Journal of Asian Studies, 56:3 (Aug. 1997), pp. 779-780.

    The Distribution of Wealth in Rural China by Terry McKinley for
    China Review International, 4:1 (Fall, 1997), pp. 276-277.

    Black Hands of Beijing by George Black and Robin Munro, for
    Political Science Quarterly, 108:4 (Winter 1993-94), pp. 753-54.

    "Sinology and Social Science," review article of Avery Goldstein,
    From Bandwagon to Balance-of-Power Politics, David Bachman,
    Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China, Dorothy Solinger,
    From Lathes to Looms, China's Industrial Policy in Comparative
    Perspective, 1979-1982, and Ronald Glassman, China in Transition,
    Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy, for Journal of Politics
    55:3 (August 1993), pp. 806-811.

    George Crane, The Political Economy of China's Special Economic
    Zones, for Journal of Developing Areas 25:4 (July 1991), pp. 571-72.

    Orville Schell, Discos and Democracy, for Journal of Asian Studies,
    48:1 (Feb. 1989), pp. 148-49.

    Pat Howard, Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl: Prospects for Socialism in
    China's Countryside, for Journal of Developing Areas, 23:2 (Jan.
    1989), pp. 292-94.

    Dwight Perkins and Shahid Yusuf, Rural Development in China, for
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 35:4 (July, 1987), pp. 896-99.

    On Kit Tam, China's Agricultural Modernization, for Journal of
    Developing Areas, 20:4 (July 1986), pp. 559-60.

    Jurgen Domes, The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of
    Transition, for The Journal of Politics, 48:3 (Aug. 1986), pp.
    819-821.

    Akhter Hameed Khan, The Works of Akhter Hameed Khan, Vol.  I-III,
    for Pacific Affairs 58:4 (Winter 1985-86), pp. 727- 728.

    Chi-ming Hou and Tzong-shian Yu, eds., Agricultural Development in
    China, Japan and Korea, for Pacific Affairs 57:4 (Winter 1984-85),
    pp. 676-77.

    Clifton Pannel and Christopher Salter, eds., China Geographer, no.
    11, for Pacific Affairs 55:1 (1982), pp. 111-112.

    Louis J. Walinsky, ed., Agrarian Reform as Unfinished Business:
    The Selected Papers of Wolf Ladejinsky, for Asian Forum 10:2
    (Winter-Spring 1980), pp. 140-143.

    Victor Nee and James Peck, China's Uninterrupted Revolution, for
    Contemporary Sociology 6:2 (March 1977), pp. 236-37.

    "The New Mao Literature," Monthly Review 28:6 (Nov. 1976), pp.  57-
    60.

    Shahid Javed Burki, A Study of Chinese Communes, 1965, for American
    Political Science Review 70:4 (Dec. 1975), p. 1326.

    Richard P. Suttmeier, Research and Revolution, for Journal of
    Asian Studies 35:1 (Nov. 1975), pp. 136-138.

    Sung-hsing Wang and Raymond Apthorpe, Rice Farming in Taiwan,
    Three Village-Studies, for Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 7:3
    (July-Sept. 1975), pp. 71-72.

    Kang Chao, Agricultural Production in Communist China, 1949-1965,
    for Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4:3 (Winter 1974), pp.
    509-512.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

    International Political Science Association:
        August, 1988:  "The Long Road to Reform in Urban China,"
        Washington D.C.

    American Political Science Association:
        September 1990:  "Was Violence Inevitable?  Conflict of
        Interests and Processes of Conflict at Tiananmen"
        September 1988:  "Post Mao Political Reforms in China."
        September 1977:  "The Impact of Agricultural Collectivization
        on Productivity in China."

    Northeast Political Science Association:
        Nov. 2001:  Chair and commentator on China panel

        October 1991: "Directed Political Succession, Persistence and
        Problems."

    Mid-West Political Science Association:
        April 1989:  "The Political Economy of Inflation in China."

    Third World Studies Association
        October 1991: "Urban Uprisings: Repression and Change" (with
        Hee Bong Park)

    Association for Asian Studies:
        March 1976:  Discussant on panel on irrigation management in
        Asia.
        April 1975:  "Commune Institutions in Rural Development:  A
        Comparative Analysis."
        April 1974:  Discussant of paper on "Rural Change in a North
        China Village."

    International Association of Agricultural Economists:
        September 1979:  Discussant on paper about China.

    American Agricultural Economics Association:
        August 1984:  "Some Results of China's New Agricultural
        Policies."

    American Association for Advancement of Science:
        January 1980:  Commentator on research and extension systems.

    Midwest Regional Asian Association:
        December 1983:  "Initial Results of Agricultural Reforms
        in China."
        December 1980:  "Standard of Living in China."

    Iowa Political Science Association:
        December 1983:  "Initial Results of China's Agricultural
        Reforms."

UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH REPORTS:

    "Rural Development Program II -- Bangladesh," for World Bank, April
    1979.

    "Social Soundness Analysis of Ethiopia's Minimum Package Program
    II," for USAID (AFR/DR/ESAP), July 1977.

INVITED ADDRESSES:

   Speaker at Philadelphia World Affairs Council, treacher training program,
      April 21, 2004, China in Change.

   Commentator at Conference sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research
    Institute, Philadelphia, Sept. 3, 2003, on paper about problems in China.
      see: http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/FPRI-conf-Sept-03.htm

   Speaker "Changing China," World Affairs Council, Reading PA, Dec. 11, 2001.

   Speaker on China: Forging an Open Market," sponsored by Pennsylvania
    Partnership for Economic Education (Temple University Economics Department),
    at Villanova University, Nov. 3, 1999.
 

    Speaker on "China and Asian Financial Problems," at Kaiserman YMCA,
    Jan. 8, 1998.

    Speaker, "China and Taiwan after Hong Kong," World Affairs Council,
    Philadelphia, Sept. 29, 1997.

    Speaker, "Briefing, China After Deng," Foreign Policy Research
    Institute, Philadelphia, March 13, 1997.

    Speaker, Cheltenham Adult Education Program, Speaker on "Great
    Decisions: Strategic Issues in Northeast Asia," March 5, 1997.

    Speaker, Jewish Community Center, Philadelphia, on "U.S. Policy
    Toward China," Jan. 27, 1997.

    Invited Speaker, Foreign Policy Research Institute Teach-In on
    "U.S. Policy Toward China," La Salle College High School, Dec. 5,
    1995.

    Speaker, Philadelphia Council on World Affairs program for high
    school students, on Great Decisions about China, March 9, 1995.

    Lecturer and Consultant on Chinese studies for Thiel College,
    Greenville PA, Sept. 28-29, 1994.

    Speaker, Temple University of Japan, "China's Current Views on
    Political Reform," June 8, 1993.

    "The future of democracy in China," Haverford College, Haverford
    PA., Oct. 30, 1992.

    Speaker, Philadelphia Council on World Affairs program for high
    school teachers, Nov. 5, 1991.

    Interviews, background briefings, and appearances for local
    television stations (KCRG, KGAN), radio (WSIU, WMT), and newspapers
    (Iowa City Press Citizen, Cedar Rapids Gazette)
     about Chinese politics, May-June, 1989.

    "Post Mao Political Reforms in China," at Conference on Political
    Reform in East Asia, sponsored by Carleton University, Ottawa,
    Canada, March 10, 1989.

    "U.S. Bank Perceptions and Strategies in the China Market," at
    "Doing Business in China: Joint Venturing, Licensing, and Sourcing"
    Conference at U. of Wisc., Sept.  8-9, 1988.

    Participant "Doing Business in China: Industry's Experience"
    Conference at U. of Wisconsin, Sept.  10-11, 1987.

    Invited speaker at "International Symposium on the Economic
    Development in the Pacific Region and China," Shanghai China,
    August 1987.

    Spoke on joint ventures in China, to the International Traders of
    Iowa, March 19, 1987.

    Invited speaker at conference on China, Iowa State University, Ames
    Iowa, Dec. 6, 1979.

 RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:
    "Shanghai, a Developmental City."
    "Urban Political Uprisings in Comparative Perspectives."
    "Directed Political Succession, Persistence and Problems."
    "The Rational Choice Perspective and Comparative Politics."

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
    Grant in Aid, Temple University Provost Office, summer 1999
    Summer Travel Grant from Center for East Asian Studies, 1993
    Selected as Fulbright Professor in China, 1989-90.
        (Program cancelled for political reasons)
    Successfully nominated Prof. Wang Huning of Fudan University for
    the Committee on Scholarly Communication Visiting Scholar Program,
        1988.
    Travel grant from the United Board for Christian Higher Education
    in Asia for travel to teach at Fudan University, 1986.
    Mellon Fellowship, for study and research at Harvard University,
    1981-82.
    National Science Foundation, Doctoral Research Grant, for field
    research in Hong Kong, 1971-72.

TEACHING:
    COURSES TAUGHT IN LAST FIVE YEARS:

    Temple University, Political Science and Asian Studies (1997- )
        P.S. 52:      Foreign Governments and Politics
        P.S. 215      Comparative Politics: Developing Nations
        P.S. 236:     China: Politics and Revolution
        P.S. 238:     East Asia and the United States
        P.S. 440:     Comparative Politics (Core Course)
        P.S. 442:     The Third World: Politics and Development
        A.S. W300:      Seminar in Asian Studies

    INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSES:
        Fall 1999, Sharron Moore, U.S. Policy in East Asia
 

    PH.D. COMMITTEES SINCE 1990:

    Chair of dissertation committee, completed:

        Ju Wu,  (Ph.D., 2005) Administrative aspects of China's Reforms
        Gyungwoo Yun, (Ph.D., 2002) Reforms and personal connections
                 in China
        Chieke Ihijirika (Ph.D., 2000) Acceptance of Democratic Elections
                 in Africa
         Sharon Gramby (Ph.D., 1997) Civil Society and Structural
            Adjustment in Ghana
        Ming Xia (Ph.D., 1997), Provincial People's Assemblies in
            China
        Aaron Neba (Ph.D., 1995), Elites in Cameroons
 

    Member of Dissertation committee, completed:
         Na Chen, Sociology, (Ph.D., 2001) Distribution of Status in a
            Rural Chinese village
        Tengli Lin, (Sociology, Ph.D., 1999) The Development of the
            Computer Industry in Taiwan.
         Meltem Muftuler (Ph.D., 1992), Turkey Enters a United Europe
         Rashida Didi, Analyses of Persian Gulf War
    Member of dissertation committee
        Maame Adwoa Gyekye, consolidation of democracy in Ghana

SERVICE:
    SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
    Member, Advisory Council of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Association of
        Asian Studies, 1991-92
    Referee for Professional Journals:
        American Political Science Review
    World Development
        Journal of Developing Areas
        Chinese Geography and Environment
        Corruption and Reform: An International Journal
        Government and Policy
        Studies in Comparative International Development
        Policy Studies Journal

    SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY:
        Member, College of Arts and Sciences, Representative Faculty
            Senator, 1993-96
        Member, TUJ Advisory Committee, 1991-96

    SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE:
        Director, Asian Studies Program, 1995-2003
        Webmaster, Asian Studies, 1996-
        Member, Asian Studies Advisory Committee, 1992-

    SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT:
        Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Summer 2003- Jan 2004
         Member, Undergraduate Committee, 2002-
        Webmaster, 1996-
        Member, Graduate Committee, 1990-95, 98-2000
        Graduate Placement Director, 1993-2000
        Chair, Department Technology Committee 1990, 1999-
        Member, Oversight Committee for Teaching P.S. 52, 1991-
        Search Committee member, comparative politics AY 1996/97, 2000
        Chairman, Graduate Committee, 1991-93
        Member, Policy and Personnel Committee, 1991-93
        Chair, Subcom'e on Implementation of Graduate Reforms, 1991
        Chairman, Lecture Committee, AY 1990-91
        Member, Comparative Search Committee, 1990

     SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY:
        Member, Iowa Sister-State Friendship Committee, 1984-90.
        Helped plan and spoke at a briefing program for Des Moines
        Friendship Force, concerning their mission to China, April 11,
        1987; helped host numerous Chinese visitors in Iowa.

        Board of Advisors, U.S.-China Education Foundation, 1984-

PAID CONSULTANCIES:
    Lecturer and Consultant on Chinese studies for Thiel College,
    Greenville PA, Sept. 28-29, 1994.
    Tour guide for Haverford Alumni tour of major historical cities in
    China, summer 1986.
    Consultant to General Bureau of Animal Husbandry, People's Republic
    of China, to design monitoring and evaluation systems of livestock
    development projects, summer 1982.
    Consultant to the International Fund for Agricultural Development,
    on animal husbandry and soil reclamation projects in China, June
    1980.
    Consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development, to
    help prepare projects for integrated rural development and farmer
    training programs in Cameroon, September-October 1979.
    Consultant to the World Bank to review the social context of
    integrated rural development projects in Bangladesh, March-April
    1979.
    Consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development, on
    rural development projects in Nepal, September-October 1977.
    Consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development, on
    agricultural extension programs in Ethiopia, April-May 1977.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
    American Political Science Association
    Association of Asian Studies
    Foreign Policy Research Institute