Victor Falkenheim
Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Studies
Director, Global Taiwan Studies Initiative
Areas of interest
- Contemporary Chinese Politics: Emphasis on Citizen Participation and Local Government
Biography
Main Bio
Victor C. Falkenheim is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto where he has taught since 1972. Educated at Princeton (B.A) and Columbia (MA & Ph.D) Professor Falkenheim has previously served twice as Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies as well as Director of the Joint Centre for Modern East Asia. His research interests and publications center on local politics and political reform in China. He has lectured widely in China and has worked on a number of CIDA and World Bank projects in China over the past two decades. His current research focuses on issues dealing with migration and urbanization.
Select publications
- Falkenheim, Victor. (2020). Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China: Vol. no. 56. of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.19193
- Falkenheim, Victor. (1978). Revolutionary Ideology and Chinese Reality: Dissonance Under Mao. By Paul J. Hiniker. [;Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1977. 320 pp. The Concept of Man in Contemporary China. By Donald J. Munro. [; Ann Arbor. China Quarterly - CHIN QUART. 76. 10.1017/S0305741000049626.
- Chinese Politics from Mao to Deng (New York: Paragon House, 1987)