Center for Chinese Studies

La Croix, Sumner J.

Email: lacroix@hawaii.edu

BA 1976, University of Virginia
MA 1978, University of Washington
PhD 1981, University of Washington

Professor La Croix has taught at the University of Hawai'i since 1981. He was a Ford Foundation Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 1990, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, and the Alena Wels Hirschorn Visiting Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University during the 1998-2000 academic years. La Croix's research on China includes papers on special economic zones, intellectual property rights, the political economy of economic reforms, provincial energy use, China's international aviation market, and its rise as a trading power. His edited book (with Keun Lee and Michael Plummer), Emerging Patterns of East Asian Investment in China, was published in 1995.