Dr. James T. Myers has built an international reputation as a China scholar since he arrived at USC in 1967 with a doctorate in political science from George Washington University, and a certificate in Mandarin Chinese from  Yale's Institute for Far Eastern Languages.

The author, editor or coauthor of 11 books and scores of scholarly articles--principally in the field of contemporary Chinese politics-- Myers is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a board member of the American Association for Chinese Studies.  He is collaborating with two other internationally respected scholars--Professor Jurgen Domes from Germany's Saarland University and Dr. Milton Yeh of Taipei's Institute of International Relations--on a Sino-American-German documentary project on Mainland Chinese politics. When completed (four volumes have been published so far), the work will be a comprehensive, English-language translation of documents critical to understanding the political history of the People's Republic of China.