Jonathan Sullivan (Chinese: 蘇立文) is a British political scientist and

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and other

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contexts, China's Internet and cyber-nationalism, studies of the Confucius Institutes, and China's politics of celebrity culture, hip hop and

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. Sullivan is Head of China Programmes at the

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(ARI) and

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in Politics and

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at the

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. Sullivan is an editor of ''The Asia Dialogue'', the online journal of the ARI. He is a co-founder of the ''China Soccer Observatory'' (CSO) with

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and a member of ''

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'' Executive Committee.

Early life and education

Sullivan comes from

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, England. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Modern Chinese Studies and

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in Asia Pacific Studies, all at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, Sullivan went to the University of Nottingham for learning

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, where he got another master's degree (2005-2006) and completed his PhD (2006-2010).

Academic career

From 2009 to 2011, Sullivan was a

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Fellow for China, Globalization and Civil Society. In 2012, he moved over to the

Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies The Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies is located at the University of Nottingham, England. It is situated in Siyuan Building on the Jubilee Campus. It is an interdisciplinary institute studying the commerce, culture, and society of China ...

, University of Nottingham to work with

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, who was Head of the School, as Director of Research. In 2014, Sullivan went back to the School of Politics as Director of the China Policy Institute (CPI). He was the Director of the CPI and Editor-in-Chief of the institute's online journal ''China Policy Institute: Analysis'' until 2018, when the CPI merged into ARI. Sullivan was a

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media fellow who facilitated a period of work at and writing for the

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Works

Books

* ''A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations,'' with Chun-Yi Lee (

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, 2018) *
China’s Football Dream
' (Asia Research Institute e-Book, 2018)

Selected articles

*Sullivan, J., & Wang, W. (2022). China's “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy”: The Interaction of Formal Diplomacy and Cyber-Nationalism. ''

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs ''Journal of Current Chinese Affairs'' is a German academ(ISSN 0341-6631). The internationally refereed journal focuses on political, economic and social developments in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Editor The '' ...

.'' *Sullivan, J., Jeu, S. & Wang, W. (2021). Rising Cyber China. ''

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''. *Sullivan, J., & Lee, D. S. (2018)
Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan
'' International Journal of Taiwan Studies'', ''1''(2), 273–300. *Sullivan, J. (2014). China's Weibo: Is Faster Different?. '' New Media & Society'', ''16''(1), 24–37.

Selected op-eds

Taiwan and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
''China Policy Institute: Analysis.'' Jan 27, 2018.
Western universities are not prepared for engaging with China
'' Nikkei Asian Review''. Dec 27, 2017. *Trump, Taiwan, and the ‘One China’ Policy. ''

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''. Feb 28, 2017.
How the Global Media Frames Taiwan and Gets it Wrong
''Global Taiwan Institute'' 1(13). Dec 14, 2016.
Chinese Celebrity and the Soft Power Machine
''China Film Insider''. April 3, 2016. *“Asia for Asians”: Would it mean “Asia for Chinese?” ''India-China Chronicle''. May–June 2015. *The Taiwan-China Meeting. ''The Diplomat''. Feb 11 2014.

References

External links

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Jonathan Sullivan's articles
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