Susan L. Shirk is a Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. Shirk is the author of China: Fragile Superpower, and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. From 1997-2000, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.
Books in order of publication:
Competitive Comrades, 1982.
The Challenge of China and Japan: Politics and Development in East Asia, 1985
The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, 1993.
How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC’s Foreign Trade and Investment Reform, 1994.
China: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise, 2007.
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise, 2022.
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