Edward Friedman teaches about China, democratization and transitions from socialist systems, in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His most recent book is The Politics of Democratization (1994). His co-authored work Chinese Village, Socialist State (1991) was chosen by the Association of Asian Studies in 1993 to receive the Joseph Levenson Prize as the best book on modern China.Dr. Friedman speaks and reads Chinese and has traveled widely in China. His work appears regularly in both major scholarly journals and also in magazines and newspapers of informed opinion. He received an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.