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Professor Yang Dali has returned to the University of Chicago where he served as Chairman of the Department of Political Science from 2004 to 2007. He will continue as co-editor of China: An International Journal.

Taking the helm as Director of EAI and Editor of CIJ is Professor Zheng Yongnian, who was previously a Senior Research Fellow at EAI. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Director of Research at the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Professor Zheng has a BA and MA from Beijing University, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University. His main research interests are nationalism and international relations, international and regional security in East Asia, China’s foreign policy, globalisation, state transformation and social justice.

He has single-authored many books, including: Technological Empowerment: The Internet, the State and Society in China (Stanford University Press, 2008), De Facto Federalism in China: Reforms and Dynamics of Central-Local Relations (World Scienti.c Publishing, 2007), Globalization and State Transformation in China (Cambridge University Press, 2004, also in Chinese), Will China Become Democratic? Elite, Class, and Regime Transition (Eastern Universities Press, 2004) and Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China: Modernization, Identity, and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1999, also in Korean). He has also written many articles in internationally refereed journals and book chapters in English language books, as well as edited or co-edited many volumes in Chinese. He is the editor of the China Policy Series (Routledge) and co-edits the Series on Contemporary China (World Scientific).

We wish Professor Dali all the very best back in Chicago and look forward to new initiatives at EAI under Professor Zheng’s leadership.