MICRO-BIO

• I am a Political Scientist with more than 30 years of practical and research experience in Asia, specializing in the government and politics of China, Japan and Hong Kong, cross-Strait relations, Taiwan's foreign policy and maritime security issues...More

  I am a Political Scientist with more than 30 years of practical and research experience in Asia, specializing in the government and politics of China, Japan and Hong Kong, cross-Strait relations, Taiwan's foreign policy and maritime security issues. I am the author of Contemporary Politics and Society in China and Economic Reform in China, 1979-2003, as well as more than 25 scholarly articles and book chapters. I was a 2015 MOFA Taiwan Fellow, for which I conducted research in Taiwan and China on views of US rebalance to the Asia Pacific.

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EXPERIENCE

• University of Mary Washington

  • Waple Professor
  • Department of Political Science and International Affairs
  • August 1997 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Virginia

  • Ph.D.
  • August 1989 to May 1994

  Dissertation: Forging Ahead: Labor Administration Reform in Post-Socialist China

Links

• Politics and Society in Contemporary China