[1] Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC. Father: Eugene Barnett (Chinese missionary)
Mother: Bertha Barnett
Wife: Jeanne Barnett
University: BA International Relations, Yale University (1942)
University: MA International Relations, Yale University (1947)
Professor: Government, Columbia University (1961-69)
Professor: School of Advanced International Studies (1982-89)
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow (1969-82)
American University Field Staff Hong Kong (1952-56)
US State Department Public affairs officer, Hong Kong (1950-51)
The Chicago Daily News Correspondent, China (1947-56)
Institute of Current World Affairs Fellow (1947-56)
Council on Foreign Relations
Ford Foundation
National Committee on US-China Relations Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors
Author of books:
Communist China and Asia: Challenge to American Policy (1960, history)
China on the Eve of Communist Takeover (1963, history)
Communist China: The Early Years (1964, history)
Communist Strategies in Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Governments and Parties (1964, nonfiction)
Cadres, Bureaucracy, and Political Power in Communist China (1967)
Chinese Communist Policy In Action (1969, history, ed.)
United States and China: The Next Decade (1970, foreign policy, with Edwin O. Reischauer)
A New U.S. Policy Toward China (1971, foreign policy)
Uncertain Passage: China's Transition to the Post-Mao Era (1974, history)
The United States, China and Arms Control (1975, nonfiction, with Ralph Clough)
China Policy: Old Problems and New Challenges (1977, foreign policy)
China and the Major Powers in East Asia (1977, nonfiction)
China's Economy in Global Perspective (1981, economics)
United States Arms Sales: The China-Taiwan Tangle (1982, foreign policy)
The Making of Foreign Policy in China: Structure and Process (1985, nonfiction)
China's Far West: Four Decades of Change (1993, history)
