Brantly Womack

Professor Emeritus

Biography

Professor of Foreign Affairs in UVa’s Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, and holder of the Cumming Memorial Chair in International Affairs. As a member of the Department of Politics since 1992, Professor Womack focuses on Comparative Government and International Relations and covers topics on Tibet in his courses on Chinese politics, which include, “Intro to Chinese Politics,” “China and the World,” and “Chinese Domestic Politics.” He has published on Chinese politics concerning Tibet. Professor Womack is an honorary professor at Jilin University (Changchun, China), and at East China Normal University (Shanghai, China). His current research interests include asymmetric international relations, the relationship of public authority and popular power in China; political reform; provincial diversification in China; domestic politics and foreign policy of Vietnam; China’s relations with Southeast Asia. In addition to publishing numerous journal articles on Asian politics, he is author of China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry, Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective, Foundations of Mao Zedong’s Political Thought, 1917-1935, and Politics in China, 3rd edition, which he co-authored with James Townsend.

Background

2008-2011, Hugh S. & Winifred B. Cumming Memorial Chair in International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia
1992-present, Professor of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
1998-2000, Chair, International Activities Planning Commission, University of Virginia
1998-2000, Chair, Division of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia
1993-97, Director, East Asia Center, University of Virginia
1992 -94, Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor of Public Affairs, The Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia
1989-92, Professor of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
1990-91, Reader in Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
1984-89, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
1986-88, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
1986, 87, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
1981-84, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
1982, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
1975-81, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D., University of Chicago, Political Science, 1977
1974-75, Center of Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of Chicago, Political Science, 1973
1969-1970, Fulbright Scholar, University of Munich, Philosophy
B.A., University of Dallas, Politics, Philosophy, Magna cum Laude, 1969

Interests

2008-present

Activities

2008-present

Publications

Most publications are downloadable in full text at my UVa page.

Books and Monographs

2006a. China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 295 pp.
1991a. Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective, Editor, New York: Cambridge University Press. 340 pp.
1986a, (with James Townsend) Politics in China, 3rd ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 464 pp.
(1994e). Translated as Zhongguo Zhengzhi ???? (Chinese politics). Tr. Gu Su ??, Dong Fang ??. Nanjing ??: Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe ???????. 363 pp.
(2003b), Second Chinese edition, Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe, 2003, 276pp.
1986b. Media and the Chinese Public (intro, ed, transl). Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. Also published as combined Spring/Summer 1986 issue of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 18:3-4. 53p. intro, 198pp.
1983. Electoral Reform in China. Guest Editor, combined Fall/Winter issue of Chinese Law and Government 15:3-4. 42 p. intro, 225 pp.
1982a. Foundations of Mao Zedong’s Political Thought, 1917-1935. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, XVIII + 238 pp.
(2006c), Translated as Mao Zedong Zhengzhi Sixiang de Jichu (1917-1935). Tr. Huo Wei’an, Liu Chen. Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe [China Renmin University Press], 2006, XVII + 353 pp.
(2006f). Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2 of translation published full-text on the People’s Daily website July 19, 2006.

Articles and Book Chapters

2008a. “The United States and Sino-Vietnamese Relations,” Japan Focus, January 19, 2008: at JapanFocus.org.
(2008b). Reproduced on History News Network, January 22, 2008: at HNN.us.
(2008d). Translated as HOA K? VÀ QUAN H? VI?T NAM – TRUNG HOA,
Gio O, May 2008: at Gio O.
2008e. “China as a Normative Foreign Policy Actor,” in Nathalie Tocci, ed., Who is a Normative Foreign Policy Actor? The European Community and its Global Partners (Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 2008), pp. 265-299.