William C. Kirby
T. M. CHANG PROFESSOR OF CHINA STUDIES
SPANGLER FAMILY PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, the University's academic venture fund for China, and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard's first University-wide center located outside the United States. A historian of modern China, Kirby's work examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; business relations across Greater China (PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong); and China's relations with the United States and Europe.
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Kirby, William C.
Germany and Republican China. Stanford University Press, 1984. (With new Chinese introduction and translation, published as
Deguo yu Zhonghua minguo [Germany and the Republic of China], Chen Qianping, Chen Hongmin, et al., trans. (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2006). First translated with new Chinese foreword as
Jiang Jieshi yu Nacui Deguo [Chiang Kai-shek and Nazi Germany], Chen Jianping, et al., trans., (Beijing: Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe, 1994).)
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- Hillgruber, Andreas, and William C. Kirby. Germany and the Two World Wars. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. (William C. Kirby, translator.) View Details
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Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende.
"Editors' Note." Special Issue on New Directions in Liberal Arts and Science Education in Asia.
International Journal of Chinese Education 5, no. 1 (2016): 1–4.
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Kirby, William C. "
The Internationalization of China."
China Quarterly, no. 150 (June 1997): 443–458. (Translated as "Zhongguo de Guojihua: minguo shidai de duiwai guanxi,"
Ershiyi shiji [Twenty-first Century] (Hong Kong), no. 44 (Dec. 1997), 33-47.)
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Kirby, William C., and Stephen C. Averill. "Recent American Scholarship on Republican China."
Chitake ni arite 16 (November 1989). (corrected version 17 in (May 1990) 43-64. Published also in
Zhongguo jindaishi yanjiu tongxun [Research in Modern Chinese History (Taipei)] 9 (1990))
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Kirby, William C. "Zhonghua minguo shiqide hezi he jishu zhuanrang [Joint ventures and technological development under the Republic of China]."
Zhongwai shehui kexue [Sino-Foreign Social Science] (December 1987).
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- Kirby, William C. "Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China." Republican China 12, no. 2 (April 1987). View Details
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Kirby, William C., Marijk C. van der Wende, Nian Cai Liu, and Simon Marginson. "Introduction: China's Rise and the New Silk Road in Global Context." Chap. Intro of
China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities Across Eurasia, edited by Marijk C. van der Wende, William C. Kirby, Nian Cai Liu, and Simon Marginson, 1–17. Oxford University Press, 2020.
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Kirby, William C. "Global Business Across the Taiwan Strait: The Case of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited." In
Mobile Horizons: Dynamics Across the Taiwan Strait, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, 178–208. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2013.
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Kirby, William C. "Engineers and the State in Modern China." In
Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283–314. Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010.
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Kirby, William C. "China's Republican Century: Leaders and Followers on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1911-2007." In
Lun Minguo shiqi lingdao qingying [Leadership Elites in Republican China], edited by Lu Fang-shang, 22–32. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2009. (ISBN: 978-962-07-6426-4.)
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Kirby, William C. "Archives and Histories in Twentieth-Century China." In
Archives, Documentation and Institutions of Socal Memory, edited by Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
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Kirby, William C. "When Did China Become China? Thoughts on the Twentieth Century." In
The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State, edited by Joshua A. Fogel, 105–114. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
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Kirby, William C. "The Chinese Party-State under Democracy and Dictatorship on the Mainland and Taiwan." In
Realms of Freedom in Modern China. Vol. 15, edited by William C. Kirby, 113–138. Making of Modern Freedom. Stanford University Press, 2004.
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Kirby, William C. "Images and Realities of Chinese Fascism." In
Fascism Outside Europe: The European Impulse Against Domestic Conditions In The Diffusion Of Global Fascism, edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen, 233–268. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
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Kirby, William C. "The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State." In
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, edited by Merle Goldman and Andrew Gordon, 211–237. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
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Kirby, William C. "Engineering China: The Origins of the Chinese Developmental State." In
Becoming Chinese, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, 137–160. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
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Kirby, William C. "Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China's Foreign Relations." In
China's Quest for Modernization: A Historical Perspective, edited by Frederic Wakeman and Wang Xi, 219–248. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1997. (published first in
Zhongguo xiandaihua wenti [Issues of Chinese modernization] (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 1994))
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Kirby, William C. "The Study of Modern China's Foreign Relations: Trends and Research Agendas." In
Politik, Wirtschaft, Kulter: Studien zu den Deutsch-Chinesischen Beziehungen, edited by Mechthild Leutner, 385–406. Munster: Lit Verlag, 1996.
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Kirby, William C. "Chinese-American Relations in Comparative Perspective, 1900-1949." In
Pacific Passage: The Study of American East-Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, edited by Warren Cohen and Akira Iriye, 163–190. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Kirby, William C. "Traditions of Centrality, Authority and Management in Modern China's Foreign Relations." In
Ideas and Interpretations in Chinese Foreign Policy, edited by David Shambaugh and Thomas Robinson, 13–30. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Kirby, William C. "Intercultural Contacts and International Relations: China's Relations with Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States, 1927-1944." In
Deutschland und China, edited by Kuo Heng-yü and Mechthild Leutner, 225–252. Munich: Minerva Publikation, 1994.
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Kirby, William C. "The Chinese War Economy: Mobilization, Control, and Planning in Nationalist China." In
China's Bitter Victory: The War With Japan, 1937-1945, edited by Steven I. Levine and James C. Hsiung, 185–213. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.
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Kirby, William C. "Minguo shiqi Zhongwai jingji jishu hezuo: Meigo zhanshi shengchan quwentuan huan Hua, 1944-1946 [Sino-foreign Economic and Technical Cooporation in Republican China: The U.S. War Production Mission to China, 1944-46]." In
Minguo dang'an yu minguo shi xueshu taolunhui lunwenji [Proceedings of the Conference on the Archives and History of Republican China], edited by Zhang Xianwen, et al.. Beijing: Dang'an chubanshe [Archives Press], 1989.
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- Kirby, William C. "Technocratic Organization and Technological Development in China, 1928-1953." In Science and Technology in Post-Mao China, edited by Denis Fred Simon and Merle Goldman, 23–44. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. View Details
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Kirby, William C., and Noah B. Truwit. "Common Prosperity? China Shifts Left." Harvard Business School Background Note 322-069, January 2022.
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Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business in the China Trade (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 317-018, August 2016.
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Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: the Megafarms of CP Group." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-159, May 2016.
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Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "Uber in China: Driving in the Gray Zone." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-158, March 2016.
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Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-157, April 2016.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Teach For China and the Chinese Nonprofit Sector." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-129, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-138, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China's Richest Town." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-131, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-134, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Taikang Insurance: Standing Out In China's Crowded Insurance Market." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-133, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-136, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "The China Entrepreneurs Forum." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-132, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-139, May 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "CP Group: Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-137, April 2014.
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Kirby, William C., and Erica M. Zendell. "Appellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-135, April 2014.
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Abrami, Regina, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Yuen Manty.
"Sealed Air China." Harvard Business School Case 308-051, February 2008. (Revised December 2011.)
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Kirby, William C., and F. Warren McFarlan. "China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 311-060, September 2010.
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Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. "China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 311-018, July 2010.
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Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Sealed Air China (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 310-088, February 2010.
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Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 310-089, February 2010.
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- McFarlan, F. Warren, William C. Kirby, and Tracy Manty. "Li & Fung 2006." Harvard Business School Case 307-077, February 2007. (Revised May 2007.) View Details
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Kirby, William C. "The World of Universities in the 21st Century." Kuo Ting-yee Memorial Lecture, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, October 2017.
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- Kirby, William C. "Perspectives on Chinese Investment in the United States: Testimony for the USCC." (pdf) Hearing on 'Risks, Rewards, and Results: U.S. Companies in China and Chinese Companies in the United States', U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), Washington, DC, February 28, 2019. View Details