Education

PhD, University of California, San Diego
MA, University of Missouri, Kansas City
MA, Peking University
BA, Peking University

Profile

Suisheng (Sam) Zhao is Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of 2010 at DU. A founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China,  he is a member of the Board of Governors of the US Committee for the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, a Research Associate at the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research in Harvard University, and an honorary jianzhi professor at Beijing University, Renmin University, China University of International Relations, Fudan University and Shanghai foreign Studies University. A Campbell National Fellow at Hoover Institution of Stanford University, he was Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College in Maryland, Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Politics at Colby College in Maine and visiting assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at the University of California-San Diego. He received a PhD in political science from the University of California-San Diego, a MA in Sociology from the University of Missouri and  BA and MA degrees in economics from Peking University. He is the author and editor of ten books, including: Village Elections in China (Routledge, 2010), China and the United States, Cooperation and Competition in Northeast Asia (Palgrave/Macmillion, 2008), China-US Relations Transformed: Perspectives and Strategic Interactions (Routledge, 2008), Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law versus Democratization (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford University Press, 2004), Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China (Routledge, 2000), Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Crisis of 1995-96 (Routledge, 1999).  His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, The Wilson Quarterly, Washington Quarterly, International Politik, The Hague Journal of Democracy, European Financial Review, The China Quarterly, World Affairs, Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Journal of Democracy, Pacific Affairs, Communism and Post-Communism Studies, Problems of Post-Communism and elsewhere.

Research and Expertise

Chinese politics, Chinese nationalism, Chinese foreign policy, East Asian international relations and Asian regionalism

Courses

INTS 4460: Chinese Politics and Political Development
INTS 4447: Chinese Foreign Policy
INTS 3340: China: The Rise And Reform Of Communism

Programs, Centers and Institutes

Center for China-US Cooperation