Lowell Dittmer
Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Lowell Dittmer is a Professor of Political Science at UC-Berkeley and Editor of Asian Survey. Professor Dittmer is one of the nation’s foremost scholars in China studies and published extensively on China .  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).