Associate Professor
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Elizabeth Freund Larus(Ph.D., University of Virginia) --areas of specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations (East Asia), Politics of China and Taiwan; --scholarly achievements: Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, Lingnan College, Hong Kong; Pacific Cultural Foundation Research Grant, Taiwan. Author of Economic Reform in China 1979-2003: The Marketization of Labor and State Enterprises (2005), numerous book chapters and articles on contemporary politics in China and Taiwan, including Soft-power versus hard cash: Retaining diplomatic allies,” in Taiwan and the International Community (2008), and “Taiwan Republic of China,” in Encylopedia of Modern China (2008). and articles in Policy Studies Review, American Asian Review and Asian Affairs. 2007-08 Academic Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington, D.C. Professor Larus is on academic leave for fall 2008 to write a textbook on contemporary Chinese government and politics. To send e-mail to Professor Elizabeth Freund Larus: elarus@umw.edu |
