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
• The history and development of the Communist Party
• The role of Chinese Overseas Direct Investment

Recent Publications

• 'Chinese Capitalism at a Crossroads', International Affairs, 85/4, 2009
• China in Africa - Preparing for the Next Forum for China Africa Cooperation, with Dr Zhang Chun, Chatham House Briefing Note, June 2009
• 'China: Rising Again', The World Today, June 2009
• Options for a Democratic Taiwan, Briefing Paper, Chatham House, March 2009
• China in 2009: A Year for Surprise, OpenDemocracy, January 2009
• 'Chinese Overseas Direct Investment and the Economic Crisis: Reaching Out', The World Today, January 2009
• 'Thirty Years On - China Celebrates the Reform Process', Briefing Note, Chatham House, October 2008
• The Olympics Countdown: Beijing to Shanghai, OpenDemocracy, August 2008
• China Changes Itself: An Olympics Report, OpenDemocracy, August 2008
• China on Olympic Eve: A Globalisation of Sentiment, OpenDemocracy, July 2008
• Taiwan and China: An Electoral Prelude, OpenDemocracy, July 2008
• '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', The 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', The 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 Modern China', International Affairs, January 2007

Experience

2005 to Present:

• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
• Associate, China Policy Institute, Nottingham
• Core Associate, XRG Hong Kong
• Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian Studies Centre, LSE

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