Thomas P. Bernstein Explained

Discipline:	Comparative politics
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship (1981)

Thomas Paul Bernstein (born April 11, 1937) is an American political scientist and specialist in the Chinese political economy and communist systems. He is an emeritus professor at Columbia University.^[1]

Biography

Bernstein earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined the Columbia faculty in 1975. Bernstein has written about the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union and China,^[2] state-peasant relations,^{[3] [4]} economic growth during China's reform and opening period,^[5] and Sino-Soviet relations.^[6] He served as two-time chairman of Columbia's department of political science and retired from teaching in 2007.

Bernstein received a 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thomas P. Bernstein Political Science . 2022-06-05 . polisci.columbia.edu.
2. Bernstein . Thomas P. . 1984-05-01 . Stalinism, famine, and Chinese peasants . Theory and Society . en . 13 . 3 . 339–377 . 10.1007/BF00213230 . 1573-7853. subscription .
3. Esarey . Ashley . 2003 . Review of Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China, Xiabo Lü . Journal of International Affairs . 57 . 1 . 253–256 . 0022-197X.
4. News: PyeJanuary/February 2004 . Lucian W. . 2009-01-28 . Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China . en-US . 2022-06-05 . 0015-7120.
5. Edmonds . Richard Louis . 2009 . Review of China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change . The China Quarterly . 198 . 471–473 . 0305-7410.
6. Miller . Robert F. . 2011-01-01 . China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949—Present. Thomas P. Bernstein, Hua-Yu Li . The China Journal . 65 . 261–263 . 10.1086/tcj.65.25790593 . 1324-9347. subscription .
7. Web site: Thomas P. Bernstein . 2022-06-05 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . en-US.