Lynn White's interests include China, comparative revolutions and reforms, comparative organization, and patterns of political development. He is the author of Unstately Power: Local Causes of China’s Reforms (winner of the 2000 Levenson Book Award), Policies of Chaos, Careers in Shanghai, and further books. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Modern China, and other journals. For more details, see the c.v. White has taught in the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and is still associated with Berkeley’s Center for Chinese Studies and with Princeton's China and the World Program and Contemporary China Center.