Wang Jisi (Chinese: 王缉思) is President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

. He was Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University from 2005 to 2013. He has been Peking University Boya Chair Professor since 2017. He is also honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies.

Early life

Wang was born in

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

in 1948. He worked as a farm laborer from 1968 to 1978, then obtained a MA degree at

in 1983.

Career

Wang taught at the

Department of International Politics from 1983 to 1991. Wang was a visiting academic at

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(1982–83),

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

(1984–85),

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(1990–91), and

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(2001). From 1992 to 2005, Wang was Director of the Institute of American Studies, at the

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese research institute and think tank. The institution is the premier comprehensive national academic research organization in the People's Republic of China for the study in the fields of ...

; he was invited to the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as endowed chair from 21 to 25 February and from 2 to 8 March 2002. at what was then known as Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, within

Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various inte ...

. Wang was Dean of the School of International Studies at

from 2005 to 2013, then President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, a think tank affiliated with Peking University. He was concurrently director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies at the

Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party The Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party (), commonly known as the Central Party School (), located in Beijing, is the higher education institution which trains Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. As of 2012, it has around 1,60 ...

from 2001 to 2009. From 2008 to 2016 he was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China () is the first-ranked executive department of the State Council of the Chinese government, responsible for the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China. It is led ...

. He was Global Scholar at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

from 2011 to 2015, including 9 months at the

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...

.Nick DiUli
Four new Global Scholars set to visit campus
September 16, 2010, Princeton University News Wang was on the

International Crisis Group The International Crisis Group (ICG; also known as the Crisis Group) is a transnational non-profit, non-governmental organisation founded in 1995. It is a think tank, used by policymakers and academics, performing research and analysis on global ...

Board of Trustees. Wang has served on the board of directors of the nonprofit Teach For China. Wang has published numerous English articles in the fields of U.S. foreign policy, China’s foreign relations, Asian security, and global politics.

Awards

In 2005 and again in 2012 ''

Foreign Policy A State (polity), state's foreign policy or external policy (as opposed to internal or domestic policy) is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, unions, and other political entities, whether bilaterall ...

'' named Wang one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers.

References

External links

*Yoichi Kat
Interview with Wang Jisi: China deserves more respect as a first-class power
The Asahi Shinbun, October 5, 2012 *Wang Jisi, “Xi jin: zhong guo di yuan zhan lue de zai ping heng (‘Marching Westwards’: The Rebalancing of China’s Geostrategy)," Global Times, October 17, 2012
Marching Westwards: The Rebalancing of China’s Geostrategy
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