Stan Rosen joined the USC faculty in 1979 and is a specialist on Politics in the People's Republic of China, Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Social Change, and Chinese Film. He is the author of Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou, The Role of Sent-Down Youth in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Survey Research in the People's Republic of China (co-authored), Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis (co-edited), and On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System: The Li Yizhe Debates (co-edited).
