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Ming Xia (BA, 1985, MA 1988, both Fudan University; Ph.D., 1997, Temple University) is a professor of political science at the City University of New York, the Graduate Center, and the College of Staten Island. He was a full-time faculty member at the Department of International Politics at Fudan (1988-1991), a residential Asian Policy Fellow at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University (2003) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004); a visiting research fellow, and a senior visiting research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2004 and 2011); a senior visiting research fellow at the Asian Research Institute, NUS (2012).

Among his ten books are The Dual Developmental State (2000 and 2018), People’s Congresses and Governance in China (2008), Empire of the Red Sun (2015, in Chinese), High Peaks, Flowing Rivers: On Tibet (2019, in Chinese), and Brainwashing in Mao’s China and Beyond (2023, co-edited with Yongyi Song, in Chinese). Homepage: www.dr-ming-xia.org.