Senior Fellow, Asia Programme

Expertise

• Chinese politics and culture
• Relations among East Asian countries
• International trade policy
• China's Private Sector
• Chinese intellectuals
• Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia and North Korea

Projects

• Engagement with Chinese Public Intellectuals and their role and influence in contemporary China
• China's vision of its role in the world in the next two decades
• China's Private Sector

Recent Publications

• 'The Rise of the Dragon - Chinese Inward and Outward Investment in the Reform Era', Chandos Publishing Oxford, February 2008
• 'Hong Kong Ten Years On - An Assessment', Chatham House and HKTEO, October 2007
• 'China and the Environment', European Strategic Forum, September 2007
• 'China is an opportunity, not a threat', Daily Telegraph, 16 August 2007
• 'Reading the New China Right', The World Today, August September 2007
• 'Power and the People - Power in China', China Review Autumn 2007
• 'China Goes Global', OpenDemocracy 2 August 2007
• The Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia 1967-1969 - The Purge of the Heirs of Genghis Khan, Asian Affairs, July 2007
• 'Shanghai Ambitions', Financial World, June 2007
• 'Eyes on the Prize', International Insitute for Asian Studies Newsletter, Summer 2007
• 'Changed by China', The World Today, April 2007
• 'Charm Offensive - How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World', Far Eastern Economic Review, July/Aug 2007
• 'Huang Ju', Guardian, June 8 2007
• 'China and the EU - New Partners', China Daily, 7 June 2007
• 'Hudigu Zhongguo Zaoqi `Quanqiuhua' - www.ftchinese.com, 13 February 2007
• 'How the Other Half Live in Moden China', International Affairs, January 2007

Experience

2005 to Present:

• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
• Associate, China Policy Institute, Nottingham
• Committee Member, 48 Group Club, British Association of Chinese Studies, and Great Britain China Centre
• Core Associate, XRG Hong Kong
• Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian Studies Centre, LSE

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