Professor Zheng Yongnian is now director of East Asian Institute ,National University of Singapore. He Professor Zheng received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Beijing University, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He was a recipient of the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1995-1997) and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2003-2004). He was Professor and founding Research Director of the China Policy Institute at theUniversity of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
He is Editor of the Series on Contemporary China (World Scientific Publishing), the China Policy Series (Routledge), and also China: An International Journal and East Asian Policy.
He has studied both China's domestic transformation and its external relations. His papers have appeared in internationally renowned journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Political Science Quarterly, Third World Quarterly and China Quarterly. He is the author of a few dozen books, including Market in State: The Political Economy of Domination in China, Contemporary China, The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor, Technological Empowerment, De Facto Federalism in China, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China and Globalization and State Transformation in China, and editor of many books on China and its foreign relations including the latest volumes China Entering the Xi Era (2014), China and the New International Order (2008), and China and International Relations (2010).
Besides his research work, Professor Zheng has also been an academic activist. He served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme on China's rural development and democracy. He has also been advising the Chinese government at different levels on various areas of reform and development. In addition, he has been a columnist for the broadsheets Xinbao in Hong Kong and Zaobao in Singapore for many years, writing numerous commentaries on China's domestic and international affairs.
