Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

walder@stanford.edu
(650) 723-4560 (voice)
(650) 723-6530 (fax)

Expertise
market reforms in China; political movements in China during the Cultural Revolution

Andrew Walder is the director emeritus of Shorenstein APARC, the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor of Sociology, and an FSI senior fellow. He is an expert on the sources of conflict, stability and change in communist regimes, and his current research focuses on the impact of China's market reforms on income inequality and career opportunity. He is also conducting historical research on the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1969, with an emphasis on the Beijing Red Guard movement during 1966 and 1967.

Before coming to Stanford in fall 1997, Walder was a professor of sociology at Harvard. He was also a professor and head of the Division of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1995-1997. His recent publications include "Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite," in the American Journal of Sociology (2001); "Politics and Life Chances in a State Socialist Regime: Dual Career Paths into the Urban Chinese Elite, 1949 to 1996," in the American Sociological Review (2000); and Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (1999). He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan.