Tun-jen Cheng 鄭敦仁 is the Class of 1935 Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. He received his B.A. from National Taiwan University, M.A. from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has previously taught at University of California-San Diego, and has been a visiting scholar at University of Tsukuba, Japan and an associate visiting professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His primary interests are in comparative political economy and East Asian development. He has published 48 journal articles and book chapters, co-authored Newly Industrializing East Asia in Transition: Policy Reform and American Response (1987) and co-edited Political Change in Taiwan (with Stephan Haggard, 1991); Inherited Rivalry: Conflict Across the Straits (with Chi Huang and Samuel S.G. Wu, 1995), The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific (with Hung-mao Tien, 2000), New Leadership and New Agenda: Challenges, Constraints, and Achievements in Taipei and Beijing (with Deborah A. Brown, 2002); and Religious Organizations and Democracy in Contemporary Asia (with Deborah Brown, 2005). Professor Cheng is also Director of Pacific Asia Program, Chair of East Asian Studies Program (both at the College of William and Mary), and Editor-in-Chief of the American Asian Review, a major refereed quarterly on Asian affairs.

https://www.wm.edu/as/internationalrelations/faculty/cheng_t.php

 

Ja Ian Chong 莊嘉颖is an Associate Professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2008 and previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the intersection of international and domestic politics, with a focus on the externalities of major power competition, nationalism, regional order and security, contentious politics, and state formation. He works on US-China relations, security and order in Northeast and Southeast Asia, cross-strait relations, and Taiwan politics. Chong is author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893-1952 (Cambridge, 2012), a recipient of the 2013 International Security Studies Section Book Award from the International Studies Association. His publications appear in the China Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, Security Studies, and other journals. During the 2019-2020 academic year, Chong is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, where he is examining how non-leading state behavior collectively intensifies major power rivalries, paying particular attention to the US-China relationship. He has concurrent projects investigating how states react to sanctions on third parties by trade partners and the characteristics of foreign influence operations.

https://harvard-yenching.org/scholars/chong-ja-ian

 

Jacques deLisle is Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, and deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as deputy director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. His research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: legal reform and its relationship to economic reform and political change in China, the international status of Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, China’s engagement with the international order, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and U.S.-China relations. His writings on these subjects appear in a variety of fora, including international relations journals, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship, and Asian studies journals, as well as law reviews. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies and is a consultant, lecturer and advisor to legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China.

https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/jdelisle/

 

Steven M. Goldstein was the Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College from 1968 to 2016. He is now an Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University and United States Naval War College. Goldstein’s research interest has been largely related to issues of Chinese domestic and foreign policy. He has published studies of Sino-American relations; Sino-Soviet relations; and the emergence of a Chinese Communist view of world affairs. His current research focus is on the relations between the mainland and Taiwan as well as the evolution of U.S.-Taiwan relations.

https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/profiles/steven-goldstein/

 

Eric Yu-Chua Huang 黃裕鈞 is an entrepreneur and a professional lecturer of diplomacy and international relations at Tamkang University in New Taipei City, Taiwan. He is also a foreign policy advisor to former Kuomintang (KMT) chairman Eric Chu and Legislator Johnny Chiang. His blockchain company, GeneRight, brokers genomic data from individual data owners to data requesters. He previously served as the director of international affairs at the KMT. Huang was the international spokesperson for KMT’s presidential candidate Eric Chu in 2016 and deputy campaign manager in Han Kuo-yu’s 2020 presidential campaign. Huang frequently participates in public forums on foreign policy matters, and he is a frequent guest on television programs and quoted in print media. He has a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (2013). Other works include China since Tiananmen (2nd ed., 2008) and China Today, China Tomorrow (2010). Other books include Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (1994), and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1890-1930 (1985). He is one of the seven regular contributors to the China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly web publication analyzing current developments in China.

Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China. He is an associate of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University.

https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joseph-fewsmith/