Andrew Wedeman

Professor Wedeman grew up in South Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, India, and the Cote d’Ivoire.

In 1991 he spent a year doing doctoral research in Beijing after which he travelled to Moscow, where he witnessed the final days of the Soviet Union.

In 2007, he traveled to Myanmar and the following year traveled by train to Mongolia.

In the course of his travels, Professor Wedeman has managed to see all three of the “dead communists” – Lenin, Mao, and Ho Chi Minh. His next goal is to get to North Korea.

Research Areas

Comparative Politics, Corruption, Chinese Politics

Awards

• Certificates of Recognition for Contributions to Students by the Parents Association and the Teaching Council of the University of Nebraska, 1997 and 2001
• Gordon White Prize for “The Intensification of Corruption in China” in The China Quarterly, 2004

Publications

• Double Paradox Rapid Growth and Corruption in China
• From Mao to Market: Local Protectionism, Rent-Seeking, and Marketization in China, 1984-1992
• The East Wind Subsides: Chinese Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cultural Revolution
  
• articles on the political economy of corruption
  
• articles on central-provincial relations in China
• US Foreign Policy in a Globalized World (co-editor with Professors Forsythe and McMahon)
• articles in the Crime, Law and Social Change, China Security, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Contemporary China, China Quarterly, The Journal of Developing Areas, and China Review
• chapters in edit volumes including Beyond the Middle Kingdom, China’s Peaceful Rise, Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism, and Identity, Political Business in East Asia, Preventing Corruption in Asia, and Rent Seeking in China
  

Career Highlights

• visiting research scholar at Beijing University, 2011
• visiting Fulbright Researcher at Taiwan National University, 2001-2002
• taught at the University Puget Sound and at the Hopkins Nanjing Center, the premiere bilingual post-graduate program in Sino-American Studies in China, 2006-2008
• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1994