Fewsmith in NYT on Sun Zhengcai’s Fall From Grace

Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the fall from grace of Chinese politician Sun Zhengcai, party secretary for Chongqing who was recently dismissed and put under investigation by President Xi Jinping.

Fewsmith was interviewed for a July 22, 2017 article in the New York Times, entitled “From Political Star to ‘a Sacrificial Object’ in China.”

From the text of the article:

Mr. Sun “was just the wrong guy in the wrong place,” said Joseph Fewsmith, a professor at Boston University who studies Chinese party politics. “Chen Miner seems like one of those people Xi is counting on to get things done.”

Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013). Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. Learn more about him here.