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The Berkeley China Initiative brings together UC Berkeley's exceptional resources to strengthen research and teaching about China across all disciplines and professions, forge new international partnerships, and enrich public life by communicating those results.

To accomplish this, we have undertaken a new funding initiative to strengthen several key areas of China Studies at Berkeley. Learn more about this initiative and BCI here.


CCS Chairs

2005-            Kevin O'Brien, Political Science
2004-2005    Jeffrey Riegel, East Asian Languages & Cultures
2000-2004    Liu Xin, Anthropology
1994-2000    Wen-hsin Yeh, History
1990-1994    Tom Gold, Sociology
1988-1990    David Keightley, History
1983-1988    Joyce Kallgren, Political Science
1979-1983    Lowell Dittmer, Political Science
1972-1979    Frederic Wakeman, History
1967-1972    Chalmers Johnson, Political Science
1963-1967    Franz Schurmann, History
1961-1963    Choh-ming Li, Economics
1957-1961    Walter Galenson, Economics