Board of Directors (2010 - 2012)

DR. JEAN-MARC F. BLANCHARD (白永辉), President, is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at San Francisco State University and Associate Director of the Center for U.S.-China Policy Studies (SFSU). He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Chinese Political Studies, and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Dr. Blanchard's research interests include Chinese outward investment, inward investment into China, China and energy security, the political economy of national security (incentives and sanctions), and globalization. He is a co-editor of and contributor to Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington Books, 2010), a co-editor of and contributor to Harmonious World and China’s New Foreign Policy (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington Books, 2008), a co-editor of and contributor to Power and the Purse (London: Frank Cass, 2000), and the author of nearly 30 book chapters and refereed journal articles in publications such as Asia Politics & Policy, the China Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary China, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Security Studies.

Dr. Blanchard received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and A.B. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Blanchard can be contacted via email at jmfblanc@sfsu.edu.

DR. JOHN JAMES KENNEDY, President-Elect, is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas.

Dr. Kennedy has consistently returned to China to conduct research since 1994 and lived in China for several years. He is also the Co-Director of the Northwest Socio-economic Development Research Center (NSDRC) at Northwest University, Xian. The NSDRC conducts research in rural China examining topics such as local elections, education and health care.

Dr. Kennedy has published articles in the China Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Survey, the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Asian Politics & Policy, and Political Studies.

Dr. Kennedy can be contacted via email at kennedy1@ku.edu.

DR. WEI LIANG (梁微), Membership Director, is Assistant Professor in the School of International Policy Management at the Monterrey Institute of International Studies (MIIS).

A graduate of Peking University, People’s Republic of China, Liang received her Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California (2003). Before joining the MIIS, she had teaching and research appointments at Florida International University (2004-2006), San Francisco State University (2006-2007), and the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), UC Berkeley (2003-2004). Her research interests include the international political economy of East Asia, international trade negotiation, and global governance.

Dr. Liang's most recent publications include “U.S. Antidumping Actions against China: The Impact of China’s Entry into the WTO” (coauthored with Ka Zeng), Review of International Political Economy; “Primacy of Power: Regulatory Battles for Promoting National Standards in China”, in Ilan Alon ed., China Rules: Globalization and Political Transformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and “China: Globalization and the Emergence of a New Status Quo Power?” Asian Perspectives (2008).

Dr. Liang can be contacted via email at wei.liang@miis.edu.

DR. FUJIA LU (陆符嘉), Publicity Director, is an Independent Scholar.

Dr. Lu specializes in survey research, sampling design, and statistical modeling. His current research activities involved research on key indicators of regional economic development and economic impact analysis. He received his M.S. degree in Policy Economics, focusing on Economic Development and International Economics, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Political Science with the major fields of International Relations, Methodology, and formal theory from the University of Texas at Austin (2000).

Dr. Lu has been involved in projects aimed at developing teaching materials relating to Constitutional Law for law students in China and translated various works including “Processes of Constitutional Decision-Making”, “Analytical Politics”, and “Fiscal Federalism”. In addition to experience in survey research, he has research interests in topics such as economic development strategy, voting behavior, bureaucratic corruption and international political economy.

Dr. Lu can be contacted via email at fujia_lu@hotmail.com.

DR. MING WAN, Research Director, is Professor of Government and Politics of George Mason University.

Dr. Wan received his Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard from the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Pacific Basin Research Center, and was a visiting research scholar at Tsukuba University and a George Washington University-Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Luce Fellow in Asian Policy Studies.

Dr. Wan has authored The Political Economy of East Asia (CQ Press 2008), Sino-Japanese Relations (Stanford 2006), Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations (University of Pennsylvania 2001), and Japan between Asia and the West (M.E. Sharpe 2001). He has been published in diverse edited volumes as well as numerous journals such as Asian Survey, Human Rights Quarterly, Orbis, Pacific Affairs, Pacific Review, and International Studies Quarterly.

Dr. Wan has appeared numerous times on the “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” show and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. His current research interests include East Asia and International Relations Theory, the China model, the Democratic Party of Japan and Japanese foreign policy, and the political economy of East Asian security.

Dr. Wan can be contacted via email at mwan@gmu.edu.

DR. YI EDWARD YANG, Treasurer, is Associate Professor of Political Science at James Madison University.

Dr. Yang's research focuses on foreign policy decision-making, political psychology, and Chinese politics. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in several edited volumes and refereed journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Foreign Policy Analysis, Chinese Journal of International Politics, and Journal of World Economy and Politics (a Journal of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences).

Dr. Yang can be contacted via email at yangyx@jmu.edu.

DR. JIN JULIE ZENG (曾金), Secretary and Newsletter Editor, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Florida International University.

Dr. Zeng graduated from the Johns Hopkins University (2007). Her research interests include Chinese politics, privatization in transitional economies, and political economy of development. She is currently in the process of revising her dissertation, which analyzed the privatization of small and medium-sized public enterprises in China, into a book.

Dr. Zeng can be contacted via email at jzeng@fiu.edu.