Judith Shapiro

Dr. Judith Shapiro is the Director of Global Environmental Politics programs at American University. She is the author of "Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and co-author, with Liang Heng, of other well-known books on China, including "Son of the Revolution" (Knopf 1983); "After the Nightmare" (Knopf 1987); and "Cold Winds, Warm Winds" (Wesleyan University Press 1987). She frequently reviews books for The New York Times and The Washington Post. One of the first Americans to work in China after the normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, Shapiro taught journalism and literature in Changsha, Hunan from 1979 to 1981. Fluent in Chinese, Professor Shapiro occasionally serves as a legal interpreter in the District of Columbia and is a frequent guest on the Voice of America's Chinese programs.