David Strand is a specialist in the history and political culture of modern China. He is Professor of Political Science at

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in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he holds the Charles A Dana chair.

Career

Strand completed his undergraduate work at

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(BA 1971), and received his graduate degrees from

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(MA 1973, M.Phil. 1974, PhD 1979). He holds the position of Charles A Dana Professor of Political Science and is the current chair of the East Asian Studies Department at Dickinson College. Strand's research interests include 20th century China, particularly Beijing. He is the author of ''An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China'' and ''Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s'', which won the

Joseph Levenson Book Prize Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two English-language books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China. According ...

for 1991. He teaches courses on the history of China and Japan, as well as other courses such as Human Rights, Four Chinese Cities, East Asian Senior Research in the East Asian Studies and Political Science departments.

References

External links

Dickinson College personal webpage
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