Faculty

Stanley Rosen
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles)
Professor
Telephone, (213) 740-1697; Fax, (213) 740-8893 rosen@usc.edu

Areas of Interest:
Chinese and other Asian Governments, Comparative Politics, Politics and Social Change, Chinese Film, and Film and Politics in Comparative Perspective

Biography:
Stanley Rosen is a Professor of Political Science. He is a specialist on Politics in the People's Republic of China, Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Social Change, and Chinese Film. He is the author of Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou, The Role of Sent-Down Youth in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Survey Research in the People's Republic of China (co-authored), Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis (co-edited), and On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System: The Li Yizhe Debates (co-edited). Since 1983 he has been the editor of the journal Chinese Education (renamed Chinese Education and Society in 1993). Dr. Rosen is currently working (with David Zweig) on a book-length study on students and scholars who have studied abroad and returned to China, and an edited book on state and society (with Peter Gries). In addition, he is investigating the attitudes, behavior, and position of youth in post-Mao China. Another project focuses on Hollywood's relationship with China and its influence on the future of the Chinese film industry. Since 1998 he has served as the faculty master of new Residential College, and has been honored with teaching awards from Pi Sigma Alpha, Mortar Board, the International Student Assembly, and the Department's 1998-99 Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching and Dedication to Students. Dr. Rosen joined the USC faculty in 1979.