This person is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
Shi Tianjian is a specialist in Asian security issues and political participation.
He was associate Professor and before that assistant Professor in Duke University’s Department of Political Science from 1993 to 2008. He was also assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 1992 to 1993, a lecturer in Peking University’s Department of International Politics, 1988 to 1989, and deputy director of The Opinion Research Center of China, 1988 to 1989.
The author of several books, including, Lineage and Village Governance in Contemporary China: Multidisciplinary Research and Political Participation in Beijing, Shi Tianjian also sits on the editorial board of Journal of Contemporary China, and is a present or past member of the editorial board of China Review and of Chinese Social Science Quarterly.