About the Author
Kate Hartford is Professor of Political Science at the University
of Massachusetts/Boston, Associate in Research at the Fairbank
Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, and a research
affiliate of the Program on Information
Resources Policy, also at Harvard. During the academic years 2001-2003,
she was Freeman Professor of American Politics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.*
She has published, and will continue to publish, extensively on matters
related to the political economy of socialist reform and market transition
in China, with comparative perspectives drawn from both Central and Eastern
Europe and East Asia. The curious can find a
list of publications here. Her current research work focuses on the
process of "informationization" of China, comprising the development of
IT and telecom industries, networking and Internet growth, regulatory agencies
and policies, and social, economic, and political applications of the technologies,
and the impact thereof.
* The Center is a joint program of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies and Nanjing University,
and is located in Nanjing, the lovely capital city of Jiangsu Province.
See the Nanjing information pages
developed in 2001-3.