Richard C. Kraus
Professor Emeritus, Political Science
Phone: (541) 346-4894
Email: rkraus@uoregon.edu
Richard Kraus specializes in the politics of art and culture in China. Recent work includes: The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture, (2004); “China in 2003: From SARS to Spaceships” in Asian Survey, (2004); “When Legitimacy Resides in Beautiful Objects: Repatriating Beijing’s Looted Zodiac Animal Heads,” in State and Society in 21st Century China (2009); “Anticipating Revolution’s End: ‘Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend’,” in Revolutionary Discourse in China: Words and Their Stories, (2009); “The Arts,” in Introduction to the Politics of China (2009); “Preserving the Premier’s Calligraphy at Beichuan Middle School,” in China in 2008: a Year of Great Significance (2009); "The Repatriation of Chinese Art," in China Quarterly (2010). Professor Kraus has spent time researching in Nanjing, Fujian, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He taught at Nanjing University from 1995-1997. Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, and National Endowment for the Humanities awards have facilitated his research on China. Professor Kraus is a Visiting Professor at Portland State University. (2009). A current book project explores the aesthetic aspect of China’s rise as a world power .
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