Education

March 2005 – March 2009           PhD, International Politics

                                                     Department of Politics, University of Bristol, UK

                                                    Supervisors: Professor Richard Little and Professor Amitav Acharya

Oct 2003 – Sept 2004                 MSc, International Relations

                                                    Department of Politics, University of Bristol, UK

Sept 1997 – July 2001                 BA, English

                                                   Ningbo University, China

 

Employment

January 2014 – September 2014  Senior Fellow

                                                    St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford

December 2009 – Present           Assistant Professor

                                                   School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)

November 2010 – October 2011  Write-Up Fellow

                                                     Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden University (The Netherlands)

August 2009– October 2010        Research Associate (Honorary)

                                                    Department of Politics, University of Bristol (UK)

October 2006 – June 2007           Seminar Tutor

                                                    Department of Politics, University of Bristol

October 2004 – January 2005      Assistant to the head of the department of Human Resources Office

                                                    Nuneaton & Bedworth Leisure Trust

Publication Record

Monograph:

“Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations: Bridging Theories of International Relations and Nationalism”. Palgrave Macmillan. January, 2016.  

Articles:

“The U.S. Global Strategy and Its Taiwan Policy – a World Order Perspective.”. The China Review. Under review.  

“Self-Identification, Recognition and Conflicts: The Evolution of Taiwan’s Identity, 1949-2008”. in Erik Ringmar and Thomas Lindemann. (Ed). The International Politics of Recognition. New York: Paradigm Publishers, 2012.

“Reconstructing Identity to fit International Society: A dialogue between English School theory and constructivism” (with John Pella).  Zhejiang University Press. 2012.

Book Reviews:

Double review on “A possible World of all-under-heaven System”; and “The Making and Becoming of China” by Tingyang Zhao. International Affairs. March, 2017.

A review on “The End of American World Order. 2014”. Polity Press. By Amitav Acharya. Wen Wei Po. Feb, 2017.

Book Review: “The Long and Winding Road – a review on Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations by Jessica Chen Weiss”. H-net.org. July, 2016.

Book Review Symposium. “On the Empirical Study of International Recognition”. Global Discourses. Vol4. No. 4. 2014