China's political and economic transformation; China's foreign trade and foreign investment policy; China's Internet and telecommunications policy; China's automobile industry development
Eric Harwit received a diploma from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing in 1990. He has lived in China for more than five years, speaks fluent Chinese and competent Japanese, and has been in China on political-economic and market research project assignments almost every year since 1982. Dr. Harwit also teaches courses on East Asian political, economic and business development, as well as Asian history and culture.
Recent publications:
- China's Telecommunications Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2008).
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"Building China's Telecommunications Network: Industrial Policy and the Role of Chinese State-owned, Foreign and Private Domestic Enterprises," (China Quarterly, June, 2007).
- "Telecommunications and the Internet in Shanghai: Political and Economic Factors Shaping the Network in a Chinese City," (Urban Studies, September, 2005).
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China's Automobile Industry (M.E. Sharpe, 1995).
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"Spreading Telecommunications to Developing Areas in China: Telephones, the Internet and the Digital Divide" (China Quarterly, December, 2004).
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"The Automobile Industry in China after WTO Entry" (Harvard China Review, Spring, 2004).
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"High Technology Business Incubators in China" (China Business Review, July, 2002).
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"The Impact of WTO Membership on China's Automobile Industry" (China Quarterly , September 2001).
- "Shaping the Internet in China" (with Duncan Clark, Asian Survey, May 2001).