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William C. Kirby
T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
Harvard University
Summary
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund.
A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby's work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950s; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China's relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States.
Before coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of History, Director of Asian Studies, and Dean of University College at Washington University in St. Louis. At Harvard, he has served as Chair of the History Department, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As Dean, he led Harvard's largest school, with 10,000 students, 1,000 faculty members, 2,500 staff, and an annual budget of $1 billion.
As Dean he initiated major reforms in undergraduate education in Harvard College; enhanced Harvard's international studies at home and abroad; increased substantially financial aid in the College and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; supported the growth of the Division (now School) of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and oversaw the construction of major new buildings in the Life Sciences, Engineering, and the Arts. During his tenure, the Faculty expanded at its most rapid rate since the 1960s.
Professor Kirby holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and (Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa) from the Free University of Berlin and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been named Honorary Professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Chongqing University, East China Normal University, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and National Chengchi University. He has held appointments also as Visiting Professor at University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
| Current Institution | Harvard University |
| Current School | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Department | Department of History |
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| Address | Harvard Business School Boston Massachusetts United States Phone: 617-495-5119 |
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Education
Free University of Berlin
Ph.D.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ph.D.
Work Experience
Professor
Harvard Business School
(1992 - Present)
Professor
Washington University
Achievements
General
Publication Summary
Books
- Kirby, William C., ed. The People's Republic of China at 60--An International Assessment. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011.
- Alford, William P., William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, eds. Prospects for the Professions in China. Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010.
- Kirby, William C., and Dayong Niu, eds. China and the World: Internationalization, Internalization, Externalization (Zhongguo yu shijie: guojihua, neihua yu waihua). Beijing: Hebei People's Press, 2007.
- Kirby, William C., Gong Li, and Robert Ross, eds. The Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. (Also published as Cong jiedong zou xiang jianjiao [From Rapprochement to the Establishment of Sino-American Relations, 1969-1979.] (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 2004.)
- Kirby, William C., Mechthild Leutner, and Klaus Mühlhahn, eds. Global Conjectures: China in Transnational Perspective. Vol. 30, Berliner China-Hefte. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006.
- Kirby, William C., ed. Realms of Freedom in Modern China. Vol. 15, Making of Modern Freedom Series. Stanford University Press, 2004.
- Kirby, William C., James Chin Shih, Man-houng Lin, and David A. Pietz, eds. State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard Asia Center, 2001.
- Kirby, William C. Germany and Republican China. Stanford University Press, 1984. (With new Chinese introduction and translation, published as Deguo yu Zhonghua minguo [Germany and the Republic of China], Chen Qianping, Chen Hongmin, et al., trans. (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2006). First translated with new Chinese foreword as Jiang Jieshi yu Nacui Deguo [Chiang Kai-shek and Nazi Germany], Chen Jianping, et al., trans., (Beijing: Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe, 1994).)
- Kirby, William C., ed. Germany and the Two World Wars. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. (Translator, Andreas Hillgruber.)
Published Papers
- Kirby, William C. "Youxian de huobanguanxi: 1928 nian zhi 1944 nian Zhongguo yu Deguo, Sulian he Meiguo de guanxi (Limited Partners: China's Relations with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States, 1928-1944)." Shehui kexue yanjiu (Social Science Research) (forthcoming).
- Kirby, William C. "Guanyu Zhongguo, Ouzhou, yu Meiguo de daxue [On the State of Chinese, European, and American Universities]." Zhongguo xueshu [China Scholarship] 7, no. 1 (2009): 186-195. (ISBN: 978-7-100-05382-2.)
- Kirby, William C. "On Chinese, European and American Universities." Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 137, no. 3 (summer 2008).
- Kirby, William C. "China's Internationalization in the Early People's Republic: Dreams of a Socialist World." China Quarterly (December 2006): 870-890.
- Kirby, William C. "The People's Republic of China as History." Sino-American Relations 25, no. 4 (winter 1999): 12-21. (also published in Harvard Asia Quarterly (June 1999).)
- Kirby, William C. "The Internationalization of China." China Quarterly, no. 150 (June 1997): 443-458. (Translated as “Zhongguo de Guojihua: minguo shidai de duiwai guanxi,” Ershiyi shiji [Twenty-first Century] (Hong Kong), no. 44 (Dec. 1997), 33-47.)
- Kirby, William C. "China, Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth Century China." Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 1 (February 1995): 43-63. (Reprinted in Capitalism in Asia: Sixty Years of the Journal of Asian Studies, edited by David Ludden, 29-50. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2004.)
- Kirby, William C. "Continuity and Change in Modern China: Chinese Economic Planning on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1943-1958." Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 24 (July 1990): 121-141.
- Kirby, William C., and Stephen C. Averill. "Recent American Scholarship on Republican China." [Being nearby: discussions on modern China (Tokyo)]. Chitake ni arite 16 (November 1989). (corrected version 17 in (May 1990) 43-64. Published also in Zhongguo jindaishi yanjiu tongxun [Research in Modern Chinese History (Taipei)] 9 (1990).)
- Kirby, William C. "Zhonghua minguo shiqide hezi he jishu zhuanrang [Joint ventures and technological development under the Republic of China]." Zhongwai shehui kexue [Sino-foreign social science] (December 1987).
- Kirby, William C. "Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China." Repulican China 12, no. 2 (April 1987).
Book Chapters
- Kirby, William C. "Engineers and the State in Modern China." In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William Kirby and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010.
- Kirby, William C. "China's Republican Century: Leaders and Followers on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1911-2007." In Lun Minguo shiqi lingdao qingying [Leadership Elites in Republican China], edited by Lu Fang-shang, 22-32. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2009. (ISBN: 978-962-07-6426-4.)
- Kirby, William C. "Archives and Histories in Twentieth-Century China." In Archives, Documentation and Institutions of Socal Memory, edited by Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
- Kirby, William C. "When Did China Become China? Thoughts on the Twentieth Century." In The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State, edited by Joshua A. Fogel, 105-114. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
- Kirby, William C. Introduction to Realms of Freedom in Modern China, edited by William Kirby, 1-17. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
- Kirby, William C. "The Chinese Party-State under Democracy and Dictatorship on the Mainland and Taiwan." In Realms of Freedom in Modern China, edited by William Kirby, 113-138. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
- Kirby, William C. "Images and Realities of Chinese Fascism." In Fascism Outside Europe: The European Impulse Against Domestic Conditions In The Diffusion Of Global Fascism, edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen, 233-268. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
- Kirby, William C. "The Two Chinas in the Global Setting: Sino-Soviet and Sino-American Cooperation in the 1950s." In Re-examining the Cold War: U.S. China Diplomacy, 1954-1973, edited by Robert Ross, 25-46. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.
- Kirby, William C. "The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State." In Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, edited by Merle Goldman and Andrew Gordon, 211-237. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Kirby, William C. "Engineering China: The Origins of the Chinese Developmental State." In Becoming Chinese, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, 137-160. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
- Kirby, William C. "Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China's Foreign Relations." In China's Quest for Modernization: A Historical Perspective, edited by Frederic Wakeman and Wang Xi, 219-248. Berkeley: Institute for East Asian Studies, 1997. (published first in Zhongguo xiandaihua wenti [Issues of Chinese modernization] (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 1994).)
- Kirby, William C. "The Study of Modern China's Foreign Relations: Trends and Research Agendas." In Politik, Wirtschaft, Kulter: Studien zu den Deutsch-Chinesischen Beziehungen, edited by Mechthild Leutner, 385-406. Münster: Lit Verlag, 1996.
- Kirby, William C. "Chinese-American Relations in Comparative Perspective, 1900-1949." In Pacific Passage: The Study of American East-Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, edited by Warren Cohen and Akira Iriye, 163-190. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
- Kirby, William C. "Intercultural Contacts and International Relations: China's Relations with Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States, 1927-1944." In Deutschland und China, edited by Kuo Heng-yü and Mechthild Leutner, 225-252. Münich: Minerva, 1994.
- Kirby, William C. "Traditions of Centrality, Authority and Management in Modern China's Foreign Relations." In Ideas and Interpretations in Chinese Foreign Policy, edited by David Shambaugh and Thomas Robinson, 13-30. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Kirby, William C. "The Chinese War Economy: Mobilization, Control, and Planning in Nationalist China." In China's Bitter Victory: The War With Japan, 1937-1945, edited by Steven I. Levine and James C. Hsiung, 185-213. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.
- Kirby, William C. "Minguo shiqi Zhongwai jingji jishu hezuo: Meigo zhanshi shengchan quwentuan huan Hua, 1944-1946 [Sino-foreign Economic and Technical Cooporation in Republican China: The U.S. War Production Mission to China, 1944-46]." In Minguo dang'an yu minguo shi xueshu taolunhui lunwenji [Proceedings of the Conference on the Archives and History of Republican China], edited by Zhang Xianwen, et al. Beijing: Dang’an chubanshe [Archives Press], 1989.
- Kirby, William C. "Technocratic Organization and Technological Development in China, 1928-1953." In Science and Technology in Post-Mao China, edited by Denis Fred Simon and Merle Goldman, 23-44. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
HBS Course Materials
- Kirby, William C., Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Appellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard." Harvard Business School Case 309-075.
- Kirby, William C., and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings -- A Corporate Governance Drama." Harvard Business School Case 312-025.
- Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Manty. "The Challenges of Launching a Start-Up in China: Dorm99.com." Harvard Business School Case 307-075.
- Kirby, William C., G.A. Donovan, and Tracy Yuen Manty. "The China Entrepreneurs Forum." Harvard Business School Case 312-095.
- Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, G.A. Donovan, and Tracy Manty. "China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 309-034.
- Kirby, William C., and F. Warren McFarlan. "China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 311-060.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Xiangdong, and Tracy Manty. "China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A)." Harvard Business School Case 308-027.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. "China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 311-018.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Yuen Manty. "China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 308-091.
- Kirby, William C., and Brittany Crow. "China's Environmental Challenge." Harvard Business School Note 308-100.
- Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Manty. "A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com." Harvard Business School Case 309-060.
- Kirby, William C., and Tracy Yuen Manty. "CP Group: Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses." Harvard Business School Case 312-059.
- McFarlan, F. Warren, William C. Kirby, and Tracy Manty. "Esquel Group: Integrating Business Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 307-076.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Luc R. Wathieu, Gao Wang, Fei Li, and Tracy Manty. "Fiyta - The Case of a Chinese Watch Company." Harvard Business School Case 308-025.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Gao Wang, Fei Li, Tracy Manty, and Waishun Lo. "Gome Electronics: Evolving the Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 308-026.
- Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Manty. "HNA Group: Moving China’s Air Transport Industry in a New Direction." Harvard Business School Case 309-029.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Inner Mongolia Yili Group: China's Pioneering Dairy Brand." Harvard Business School Case 308-052.
- Kirby, William C., Michael Shih-ta Chen, Tracy Manty, and Yi Kwan Chu. "International Agribusiness in China: Charoen Pokphand Group." Harvard Business School Case 910-418.
- Kirby, William C., and G.A. Donovan. "Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China." Harvard Business School Case 910-404.
- McFarlan, F. Warren, William C. Kirby, and Tracy Manty. "Li & Fung 2006." Harvard Business School Case 307-077.
- Kirby, William C., and Brittany Crow. "Myths and Lessons of Modern Chinese History." Harvard Business School Note 308-065.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline." Harvard Business School Note 309-073.
- Abrami, Regina, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Sealed Air China." Harvard Business School Case 308-051.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Sealed Air China (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 310-088.
- Kirby, William C., J. Megan Greene, and Tracy Manty. "A Strait of Uncertainty: Taiwan's Development in the Shadow of China." Harvard Business School Note 909-408.
- Kirby, William C., and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Taikang Insurance: Standing Out Among China's Crowded Insurance Market." Harvard Business School Case 312-109.
- Kirby, William C., Michael Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Wong. "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 308-057.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Keith Chi-ho Wong, and Tracy Manty. "Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 308-058.
- Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 310-089.
- Kirby, William C., Michael Shih-ta Chen, Keith Chi-ho Wong, and Tracy Manty. "Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China." Harvard Business School Case 309-074.
Books
State and Economy in Republican ChinaThis manual for students focuses on archival research in the economic and business history of the Republican era (1911-1949). Following a general discussion of archival research and research aids... |
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