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Zheng Wang

Zheng Wang

Zheng Wang is the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) and a Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.

Dr. Zheng Wang is the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) and a Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. Dr. Wang is currently a Fellow at New America’s International Security Program, a Global Fellow at the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR). He is also a nonresidential Senior Fellow at The China Center for the South China Sea Studies in Nanjing University, China.

Dr. Wang is the author of the Columbia University Press book Never Forget National Humiliation: Historic Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations . This book received International Studies Association’s The Yale H. Ferguson Award which “recognizes the book that most advances the vibrancy of international studies as a pluralist discipline.” The Japanese version of the book was published in Japan in 2014. His new book, Memory Politics, Identity and Conflict: Historical Memory as a Variable will be published soon by Palgrave Macmillan. He also has another new book on the South China Sea disputes and China’s new diplomacy which is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Posts by Zheng Wang
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March 11, 2014

'Missing Histories': History Education and China-Japan Relations

By Zheng Wang
Differences in history classrooms reflect the social discourse problems that underline China and Japan's conflict.
February 27, 2014

How U.S. Ambassadors Influence China (But Not Americans)

By Zheng Wang
From John Leighton Stuart to Gary Locke, US Ambassadors have been influential in Beijing but have little impact at home.

February 04, 2014

Clash of Dreams: Becoming a ‘Normal Country’ in East Asia

By Zheng Wang
The region’s countries have different visions of what they want to be. Can they work together to achieve them?

December 18, 2013

China’s Puzzling ADIZ Decision Making

By Zheng Wang
China's ADIZ announcement may represent a bungled decision-making process.

December 10, 2013

How to Prevent Accidental Conflict in the East China Sea

By Zheng Wang
China and Japan could avoid conflict in the East China Sea by setting up a "peace zone."
November 22, 2013

Zheng Wang

The Diplomat’s Zachary Keck spoke recently with Dr. Zheng Wang, author and Associate Professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University about the recent Third Plenum and China’s efforts at reform.

November 05, 2013

Why China’s New Rich Want to Emigrate

Two new surveys show that Chinese entrepreneurs are increasingly looking to live and invest abroad.

October 12, 2013

China’s Foreign Policy Debates

Xi Jinping may have grabbed the APEC Summit limelight, but China still needs to resolve some foreign policy questions.

September 22, 2013

The Bo Xilai Verdict: Everybody Wins

Bo was given a life sentence on Sunday, ending a trial that pleased the defendant, CCP and Chinese public.

September 20, 2013

The Chinese Dream From Mao to Xi

Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream may be new in name, but it continues a long tradition for the Chinese Communist Party.

September 04, 2013

How China’s Economic Rebalancing is like the Movie 'Speed'

Like the bus in Speed, China’s economy must continue cruising along or else risk imploding.

August 26, 2013

China and Japan REALLY Don’t Like Each Other

A new survey finds that mutual animosity between Japanese and Chinese citizens runs deep.

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