Asia Experts
University Lecturer in Comparative Politics (African Politics), Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University
Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Cold War International History Studies, Department of History, East China Normal University
Director, Center of World History Studies, School of History and Culture, Shanxi University, China
Douglas G. Spelman stepped down as Deputy Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States August 30, 2012 but remains affiliated with the Institute as a Senior Adviser. Dr. Spelman received a B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. In 1972, he served as an interpreter for the visit to the United States of the...
Professor of International Political Economy, Waseda University
Takashi Terada is professor of international relations at the Organization for Asian Studies, Waseda University, and will be professor at Doshisha University from March 2012. Before taking up his position at Waseda, Terada was an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. His most recent works in English include “The Origins of ASEAN+6 and Japan's Initiatives: China’s Ris...
Associate Professor, China Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
I often describe myself as the China counterpart to the narrator in Iris Murdoch's novel, The Philosopher's Pupil, who says "my role in life is listening to people's stories." My role in life is to listen to Chinese people tell their stories—and then to relate those stories here in the West in a way that makes sense to both us and the storytellers themselves. The turning point in my life as...
Jennifer Turner has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 13 years. She has created meetings, exchanges and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly on water, energy and climate challenges, as well as environmental nongovernmental organizations, environmental journalism, and environmental govern...