Visiting Scholars

21st Century China Center welcomes scholars to interact with faculty, access rich resources for research, and participate in the larger UC San Diego community. Applicants are required to send 1-2 recent publications for assessment in addition to the School’s requirements. Learn more

GAO Yanli
Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University
Professor Gao's research interests include urban history and culture of Beijing and Shanghai, cultural images in China-U.S. relations, American missionaries in China, and modern Chinese cultural history. She has also served as a visiting professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University during the 2014-16 academic years.

NIE Riming
Research Fellow, Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law (SIFL)
Nie primarily focuses on Chinese politics and economy, business innovation, as well as recent research areas including fiscal systems, demography, public education, finance and youth employment. Nie often shares his opinions in Chinese media and serves as a columnist for the Financial Times Chinese edition.

QI Huiyu
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Economics, Fudan University
Research field: Labor economics and regional economics
Qi's research focuses on AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the labor market, and her dissertation focuses on AI innovation and occupational skill use in China.

WANG Hao
Associate Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Wang’s research interests include U.S. politics and foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations, and international relations (especially security) of the Asia-Pacific region.

YU Yang
Ph.D. Candidate, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
Yu’s research interests include international relations theory, international relations of the Asia-Pacific, and interactions between ASEAN and great powers. His dissertation focuses on learning in international politics, especially how countries learn from their or others’ experience.

Past Visiting Scholars

2023-24

GUO Yuchen
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University
Research field: Public economics, political economics and experimental economics
Guo’s research interests include: government corruption, organizational behavior, personal health and development, government procurement and historical research.

LI Jiachen
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Economics, Renmin University of China
Li's research mainly focuses on issues in development economics and political economics within the long-run perspective of economic history, and her dissertation focuses on regional endowments, institutional change and the rise of modern banking in 20th century China.

LI Jiacong
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Environment, Tsinghua University
Li’s research interests include renewable energy systems and flexibly operated carbon capture systems. His dissertation focuses on decarbonizing China's energy system with renewables and carbon capture systems.

TIAN Ruyan
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Economics, Fudan University
Tian’s research interests include local government debt problems in China, financial regulation and systemic risk, corporate financing and investment decisions, and policy evaluation methods. His dissertation focuses on the impact of financial regulation on credit allocation in China.

YE Zi
Ph.D. Candidate, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
Ye's research interests encompass Global Value Chain, Regional Trade Agreements, Trade Politics, and Inequality in developing countries, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Her dissertation concentrates on 21st century Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and global value chain networks.

ZHANG Hongyu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University
Zhang's research interests encompass energy economy, energy policy and power system transformation in China. Her current research concentrates on the integration of renewables in power system considering flexible resource requirements.

2022-23

DENG Ruibin
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Government, Tsinghua University
DENG’s research interests include energy transition, carbon markets, as well as state-market relations in China. His dissertation focuses on institutional barriers in carbon markets in China.

LIN Jiani
Ph.D. student, School of Economics, Renmin University of China
Lin’s research interests include digitalization of firms, environmental economics and inequality.

MENG Yiqun
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Electrical Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University
Meng's research focuses on the interlinkages between the electricity and carbon markets in China, optimization of multi-source energy capacities, and the economic analysis and assessment of carbon reduction in thermal power units under auxiliary service markets. His dissertation investigates multi-energy optimization operation strategies and economic analysis within the context of the electricity market. Additionally, Meng is a 2022-23 visiting graduate student from China under the CSC (China Scholarship Council) program.

2021-22

Yuan Cheng
Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University

Dongtao Qi
Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

Cai Dapeng
Professor of Economics, Nanzan University, Japan

2020-21

Tianyu Jin
School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Yunhe Zhang
Xiamen University

2019-20

Yu Zhang
School of Government, Peking University

2017–18

Shuisheng Chen
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University

Mikko Huotari
Head of Program, Foreign Relations
The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)

Franziska Barbara Keller
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Social Science

Congcong Zheng
Associate Professor, Department of Management, San Diego State University

2016–17

CHEN Shaowei
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Chen’s research interests include central-local relations and policy implementation in China, urban governance, media control in authoritarian governance, and quantitative methods. His dissertation focuses on local governments’ policy attention allocation in China. Chen is a 2016-17 Fulbright scholar in residence.

CHENG Wenxia
Ph.D. Candidate, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
Cheng is currently working on his doctoral dissertation, “Persuasion With Coercion: The Rise and Fall of Dazibao (Big Character Poster).” His research interests are in Chinese politics, especially concerning the evolution of the Communist Party of China and grassroots governance.

WANG Chengmin
Ph.D. Candidate, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
Wang’s research interests include political religion, international politics and financial aid. With an emphasis on political religion and Korean Peninsula studies, her research narrows in on political religions of South Korea and aid to North Korea.

WANG Shuo
Managing Editor, Caixin
As co-founder and managing editor of Caixin, a Chinese business and finance media group, Shuo provides high-quality news reports and leads an award-winning editorial team, which was bestowed the Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University. Before Caixin, Shuo served as managing editor of Caijing, a business and finance magazine in China. Shuo is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

2015–16

MAO Jie
Associate Professor, School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics
Mao’s research interests include public economics, tax policy and environment, and social security. Previously, he served on a joint research group founded by the Ministry of Finance of China and Tsinghua University, addressing policymaking regarding taxation and social security in China. Mao is in residence for the 2015-16 academic year.

TANG Shiping
Fudan Distinguished Professor and Dr. Seaker Chan Chair Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
Widely published in forums for international relations, institutional economics, sociology and philosophy of the social sciences, Tang’s research focuses on regionalism, ethnic conflict, autocracy and political economy. He is a Fulbright scholar in residence for the 2015-16 academic year.

2014–15

YAN Yuye
Associate Professor, Shanghai Finance University, and postdoctorate student, Fudan University
She received her Ph.D. in international relations from Fudan University in 2005. Her research interests include international political economics and disaster politics. Her current research focuses on foreign aid to North Korea, Chinese disaster relief diplomacy, and China’s humanitarian aid strategy. Dr. Yan is in residence for the 2014-15 academic year.

YANG Zhifeng
Director of the Center for Information Technology Industry at the Electronic Technology Information Research Institute, part of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

2013–14

HUANG Shaoqing
Associate Professor, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
He received his Ph.D in Economics from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2005. Prior to his appointment at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he worked as a research fellow at the Chinese Private Enterprise Center, China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. He led a research project on the "Governance of R&D Consortia on Generic Technologies. While in residence at UC San Diego, he engaged in a research project on “The Dynamics of Industrial Structure in a Nation: from the Perspective of Technological & Institutional Innovation.”

2012–13

HUANG Haifeng
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced
Huang's research interests include political economics, news media, theory of institutions and Chinese politics. Dr. Huang’s research centers on the role of news media in authoritarian governance and political transition. He is also interested in democratic politics and electoral competition. Dr. Huang was in residence in summer 2013.

PAN Zhongqi
Professor of International Relations, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
He was seconded by China’s Foreign Ministry as a First Secretary at Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the European Communities in 2008-09. His research focused on international relations theory, China and international system, China’s foreign policy and strategy, China-U.S. and China-EU relations. Dr. Pan was a Fulbright scholar in residence in 2012-13 academic year.

SUN Suyuan
Associate Fellow, School of Advanced International and Area Studies, East China Normal University
Her research interests include international political economics and international energy politics. Dr. Sun’s current research focused on the world’s petroleum system, international petroleum companies, oil-producing countries, regional cooperation and energy security issues. Dr. Sun was in residence in 2012-13 academic year.

TANG Cheng
Professor of Economics, St. Andrew University (Momoyama Gakuin), Japan
His main research area is the Chinese economy, specifically China’s financial system. He worked on two projects. One was an economic analysis of SME finance in China. It examined the role of regional banks in SME finance and analyzed the correlation between bank efficiency and lending attitude. The other project was a study of rural finance in the Mao period. It answered the question of how agricultural loans had contributed to the development of China's rural economy. Dr. Tang was in residence in 2012-13 academic year.