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Lynn White (Chinese: 白 霖) is Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs, Politics, and in the East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University. He writes about comparative and Chinese politics. His book Unstately Power(1998) won the Joseph Levenson Book Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies for making the “greatest contribution to increasing understanding of the history, culture, society, politics, or economy” of twentieth-century China among books published in its year." White has been a Fellow of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong.

Early life and education
White’s parents were historian Lynn Townsend White, Jr. and Maude M. White.

White earned a BA in Political Economy from Williams College, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Academic and administrative career
White is a Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Emeritus: Senior Scholar at Princeton University.