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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Quansheng Zhao

Quansheng Zhao
M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
B.A., Peking University
E-mail: zhao@american.edu
Phone: 202-885-1662 / 202-885-1760
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Quansheng Zhao is Professor and Division Director of Comparative and Regional Studies at the School of International Service, and Director of American University’s Center for Asian Studies. He is Associate-in-Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University. He is also Guest Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He received his B.A. in international politics from Peking University, M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from University of California at Berkeley.

A specialist in comparative politics and international relations focusing on East Asia, Dr. Zhao is the author of Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, winner of the Best Academic Book Award by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Korea), and Japanese Policymaking (Oxford University Press/Praeger, selected as "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice). He is editor of Future Trends in East Asian International Relations, and co-editor of Politics of Divided Nations: China, Korea, Germany and Vietnam. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He has been Series Editor of “Comparative Perspectives in Modern Asia” for Palgrave (St. Martin's Press), and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, China Review, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, and the Journal of Contemporary China.

Professor Zhao has previously taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and at Old Dominion University. He has held several distinguished year-long research and teaching positions: Pacific Basin Research Fellow (post-doctoral) at Harvard University, Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Japan Foundation Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Research Fellow at the East-West Center. He has also been invited to conduct short-term research and teaching (ranging from two weeks to three months) in China (Fudan U.), Japan (Aoyama, Shimane, Soka, Chuo, and Utsunomiya Universities), Korea (Korea U.), Hong Kong (City U.), Singapore (NUS), and Europe (Oxford U., Stockholm U., and the European Institute of Japanese Studies). Dr. Zhao has served as Coordinator for the Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists, member of annual peer review advisory panels for fellowships and research grants for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Security Education Program, and the Fulbright Program.

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