Lowell Dittmer
Professor of Political Science
Phone: (510) 642-4674
Office Location: 738 Barrows
Office Hours: W 5:30-7:00
Fall 2008 Course: PS39B Freshman,
PS191-3 Comparative Politics in Asia
Professor Dittmer received his Ph.D. from The University
of Chicago in 1971. His scholarly expertise is the study of
contemporary China. He teaches courses on contemporary China,
Northeast Asia, and the Pacific Rim. His current research
interests include a study of the impact of reform on Chinese
Communist authority, a survey of patterns of informal politics
in East Asia, and a project on the China-Taiwan-US triangle
in the context of East Asian regional politics. Professor
Dittmer's recently published books and monographs include
Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications
(University of Washington Press, 1992), China's Quest for
National Identity (with Samuel Kim, Cornell University Press,
1993), China Under Modernization (Westview Press, 1994), and
South Asia's Nuclear Crisis (M. E. Sharpe, 2005).