William C Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University, T M Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University, and Chairman of Harvard China Fund. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard's first University-wide center located outside the United States. A historian of modern China, Kirby's work examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; business relations across Greater China (PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong); and China's relations with the United States and Europe.