Richard Kraus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He was born in Quincy, Illinois, and grew up in Virginia. His B.A. is from Grinnell College and Ph. D. from Columbia University. He has worked at Oregon since 1983, teaching courses about China, cultural politics, human rights, and United States foreign policy. He has written or edited five books: Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism (Columbia University Press, 1981); Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music (Oxford University Press, 1989); Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (University of California Press, 1991);  Urban Spaces: Autonomy and Community in Contemporary China (with Deborah Davis, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995); and The Party and the Arty: How Money Relaxes Political Control over China's Arts (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). Kraus has lived in China for some six years, in Fujian, Nanjing, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In 1995-97, he taught at the Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. His current project is a study of the China's incorporation into an international cultural economy.

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