Lance Guo

Assistant Professor of Government and Asian Studies

Spring 2008

  • Chinese Foreign Policy (ASIAN 228)
  • Advanced Seminar in Chinese Politics (ASIAN 333)
Phone (207) 725-3801
Title Assistant Professor
Department ASIAN STUDIES
2nd Title Assistant Professor
2nd Department GOVERNMENT
Work Location 204 38 College Street
E-Mail lguo@bowdoin.edu
lance guo

Education

B.A. Beijing Normal University
M.A. Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. University of Washington

Mr. Guo currently teaches Government and Asian Studies courses. Before joining Bowdoin, he was staff researcher at the East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore and before that, a research fellow the Asian Research Center in Perth, Western Australia. He has a Ph.D in political science, an M.A. in sociology and a BA in literature. His teaching and research interests are diverse and interdisciplinary, straddling comparative politics, international relations, political sociology and political economy. His book Market Communism: The Institutional Foundations of China's Post-Mao Hyper-Growth was published by Oxford University Press in 1998 and his articles have appeared in a number of journals and edited books, some translated into other languages. Born and grew up in Mainland China and having studied, lived and worked in various places in the Asian-Pacific as well as the US, Mr Guo brings together a broad range of perspectives to his classes. The Bowdoin courses he teaches include Chinese Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy, International Political Economy, International Relations in the Asian-Pacific, and Politics of Southeast Asia . His current research projects include China's incipient environmental politics, the changing class base of the Chinese Communist Party and party recruitment in the reform era, and regime transformatin in China. He is just back from a year's field research in China during his sabbatical.