Director, USC East Asian Studies Center
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
213-740-1697
rosen@usc.edu
Video: Stan Rosen comments on "cultural and intellectual trends" at 2007 USCI conference.
Video: Stan Rosen comments on the political implications of the Beijing Olympics (2009)
Presentation: Stan Rosen on Chinese youth (2009)
Stanley Rosen is Director of the East Asian Studies Center at USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Professor in the USC Department of Political Science specializing in Chinese politics and society. He studied Chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has traveled to China more than 35 times over the last 28 years.
Professor Rosen's courses range from Chinese politics to film, and focus on political change in Asia, comparative politics, and politics and film in comparative perspective. One of the most well-regarded instructors on the USC campus, his undergraduate survey course on East Asian societies ranks among the most popular of area studies classes.
The author or editor of six books and numerous articles, Professor Rosen has written on such topics as the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese legal system, public opinion, youth, gender, human rights, and film and the media. He is the co-editor of Chinese Education and Society and a frequent guest editor of other translation journals. His co-edited volume, State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation (with Peter Hays Gries (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004) is currently being revised for a second edition. A co-edited volume with Ying Zhu entitled The Interplay Among Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Film will be published by Hong Kong University Press.
Other ongoing projects include a study of Hollywood films in China and the prospects for Chinese film on the international market, particularly in the United States; an analysis of reforms in Chinese higher education (with Gerard Postiglione); and the changing attitudes and behavior of Chinese youth.
In addition to his academic work at USC, Professor Rosen has escorted eleven delegations to China for the National Committee on US-China Relations (including American university presidents, professional associations, and Fulbright groups), and consulted for the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, the Los Angeles Public Defenders Office and a number of private corporations, law firms and U.S. government agencies.
Education:
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Selected Publications:
Rosen, S. (2009). "Contemporary Chinese Youth and the State," Journal of Asian Studies, v. 68, n. 2, pp. 359-369.
Rosen, S. & Zhu, Y. (Eds.) (2006). "Chinese cinema in the era of globalization: Prospects for Chinese films on the international market, with special reference to the United States." In Dangdai Dianying [Contemporary Cinema] No. 1 (pp. 16-29) (in Chinese; in English edited book with Y. Zhu).
Rosen, S. & Zweig, D. (2005). "Transnational capital: Valuing returnees in a globalizing China." In C. Li (Ed.), Bridging minds across the Pacific: U.S.-China educational exchanges, 1978-2003. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Rosen, S. & Gries, P. H. (Eds.) (2004). State and society in 21st century China: Crisis, contention, and legitimation. London and New York: Routledge Curzon.
Rosen, S. (2004). The state of (urban) youth/Youth and the state in early 21st century China. In P. H. Gries & S. Rosen (Eds.), State and society in 21st century China: Crisis, contention, and legitimation (pp. 159-179). London and New York: Routledge Curzon.
Rosen, S. (2004). The victory of materialism: Aspirations to join China's urban moneyed classes and the commercialization of education. The China Journal, 51, 27-51.
Rosen, S., Zweig, D. & Chen C. (2004). "Globalization and transnational human capital: Overseas and returnee scholars to China." The China Quarterly, 179(Sept.),735-757.
Rosen, S., & Zweig, D. (2003). How China trained a new generation abroad. http://www.scidev.net/Features/index.cfm?fuseaction=readfeatures&itemid=155&language=1.
Rosen, S. (2003). Chinese media and youth: Attitudes toward nationalism and internationalism. In C. Lee (Ed.), Chinese media, global contexts (pp. 97-118). London and New York: Routledge.
Rosen, S. (2003). China goes Hollywood (review of Ying Zhu, Consumption, Markets, and Culture (2002). Foreign Policy, January-February, 94, 96, 98.
Rosen, S. (2002). The wolf at the door: Hollywood and the film market in China. In E. J. Heikkila, R. Pizarro (Eds.), Southern California and the world (pp. 49-77). Westport, CT: Praeger.