Joseph Fewsmith (1949 â 4 November 2025) was an American political scientist. He was professor emeritus of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. Fewsmith died on 4 November 2025.
Books
- Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Fewsmith Politics in Shanghai, 1890-1930 (University of Hawaii Press, 1985)
- The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (M.E. Sharpe, 1994)
- China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- Elite Politics in Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe, 2001)
- China Since Tiananmen: From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao, Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- China's Opening Society: The Non-State Sector and Governance, co-edited with Zheng Yongnian (Routledge, 2008)
- China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society, ed. (Rowan & Littlefield, 2010)
- The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- Rethinking Chinese Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
References