Speaking in Maine offers a talk by Mark W. Frazier, Professor of Chinese Politics in the School of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
Professor Frazier teaches and writes about the political economy of China. His recent research examines the politics of labor and social policies in China. He has published articles on pension politics in Asia Policy, Studies in Comparative International Development, and The China Journal, and has recently completed a book manuscript titled Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China. He is also the author of The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Prior to assuming his current position, he was the Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian Political Economy (2001-2005) and Associate Professor of Government (2006-2007) at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin. He was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 2004-05 to conduct research in China. Frazier served as Research Director at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) for three years beginning in 1996. Frazier received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in China Studies from the University of Washington, and a BA in history from Princeton University.
The talk was recorded April 12, 2010 in the Bangor Room at Memorial Union on the University of Maine campus in Orono.