Family..家庭
Harry Harding..何漢理
University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and a Faculty Senior Fellow in the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (UVA), he is also Yushan Scholar and University Chair Professor in the College of Social Science at National Chengchi University in Taipei. Harding served as the founding dean of the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy between 2009 and 2014. He is presently writing an analytical history of the U.S.-China relationship from the mid-1990s to the present, describing the difficulties the two countries sides have encountered in promoting a more cooperative relationship.
Harry Harding is a specialist on Asia and US–Asian relations. His major publications include Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949–1966; China’s Second Revolution: Reform after Mao; A Fragile Relationship: the United States and China since 1972; and the chapter on the Cultural Revolution in the Cambridge History of China. He is presently working on a sequel to A Fragile Relationship, with the working title A Broken Engagement: the United States and China from Clinton to Trump.
Presently a University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and a Faculty Senior Fellow in the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (UVA), he is also Yushan Scholar and University Chair Professor in the College of Social Science at National Chengchi University in Taipei. He has previously held visiting or adjunct appointments at the University of Washington, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Sydney, the University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Harding served as the founding dean of UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy between 2009 and 2014. Before joining the Batten School, he held faculty appointments at Swarthmore College and Stanford University, founded the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and was a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. From 1995 to 2005 he was Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, and from 2005 to 2007 was Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group, a political risk research and advisory firm based in New York. He has served on the boards of several educational and nonprofit institutions as well as on the US–China Joint Commission on Science and Technology and the US Defense Policy Board. A graduate of Princeton in public and international affairs, he holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is married to Syaru Shirley Lin.
Read “Has U.S.-China Policy Failed?” by Harry Harding in the fall 2015 issue of Washington Quarterly
Stefani Kuo..郭佳怡
STEFANI KUO 郭佳怡 (she/her) is a poet, playwright, and performer from Hong Kong and Taiwan. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. Candidate in Playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, French, and English, she is interested in crafting multicultural, multilingual narratives for an international audience. She has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship at PWC, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship at Lanesboro Arts Centre, Many Voices Fellowship at PWC, and Van Lier New Voices Fellowship. She is currently under commission with the Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, and has received commissions from the Rubin Museum, Roundhouse Theater, and Yangtze Repertory.Her play on the Hong Kong protests, Final Boarding Call, was the winner of the 2021 Lead Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers’ Prize. Her play Wake was presented as part of the Langston Hughes Festival 2022 at Yale. Her play Pearl’s Beauty Salon was produced in May 2024 as part of the Carlotta Festival at Yale. She was a member of Interstate-73, Page 73’s Writers Group, in 2019. Her work in creative non-fiction, poetry, and translation have appeared in The New York Times, China Hands, Electric Literature, and more. As a performer, she was most recently seen in Arlington by Enda Walsh, directed by Bobbin Ramsey, as well as her one-woman show Moonie at the Yale Cabaret. (www.stefanikuo.com) (For more on Hong Kong http://parachute.substack.com)
Samantha Kuo..郭佳欣
Samantha Kuo is a MBA/MPH Dual Degree Yale Graduate Student, with a focus on investing in the Healthcare space.
Experienced Multi-Disciplinary Strategist and Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the advertising and creative industry. Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite (Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint). Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Arts - focused in Media Studies and Economics, with a Minor in Architecture from University of Virginia.