Department of International Relations
Tsinghua University
Beijing , China 100084
Mobile : +86 15110078781 Email: fengzhangmc@gmail.com
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CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations
Tsinghua University , Beijing , China
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EDUCATION
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ph.D., International Relations, International Relations Department
Dissertation: "Chinese Primacy in East Asian History: Deconstructing the Tribute System in China 's Early Ming Dynasty" (nominated for the Michael Nicholson best doctoral thesis prize of the British International Studies Association) June 2009
London School of Economics and Political Science
MSc, Comparative Politics, Government Department August 2004
Xidian University , Xi'an , China
B.A., English July 2003
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RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Historical and contemporary East Asian politics
Chinese foreign policy
International Relations theory
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006-present
China Programme Manager (part-time), The Foreign Policy Center, London
2006-2009
Analyst for BBC World Service's Business Programme, BBC2 "Newsnight", BBC4 "The World", and CNBC on Chinese affairs
2006-2007
Research Assistant for Mark Leonard's book What Does China Think
2005-2006|
Editor, "International Forum" page, The Global Times ( Huanqiu Shibao ) newspaper, Beijing , China
2004-2005
Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages Studies, Chongqing University , China
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
August 2009
Teaching Assistant for Professors Michael Cox and Odd Arne Westad, IR201, The New World Order: America , Asia, Europe , LSE/PKU Summer School, Beijing , China
October-December 2008
Teaching Fellow, State and Society in the Chinese Political Process (postgraduate course), Department of Politics & International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
October 2008-June 2009
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Chris Alden and Professor Christopher R. Hughes, IR202, Foreign Policy Analysis , International Relations Department, London School of Economics
July 2008
Teaching Assistant for Professors Michael Cox and Odd Arne Westad, IR201, The New World Order: America , Asia, Europe , LSE/PKU Summer School, Beijing , China
October 2007-June 2008
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Professors Michael Cox and Barry Buzan, IR100, The Structure of International Society , International Relations Department, London School of Economics
PUBLICATIONS
"Rethinking the 'Tribute System': Broadening the Conceptual Horizon of Historical East Asian Politics," Chinese Journal of International Politics , Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter 2009), pp. 545-574; to be included as a chapter in a volume in honor of Professor Wang Gungwu's scholarship to be published in 2010
"Regionalization in the Tianxia? Continuity and Change in China 's Foreign Policy," in Emilian Kavalski, ed., China and the Global Politics of Regionalization ( Surrey , England : Ashgate, 2009), pp. 19-32.
Book review: War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe by Victoria Tin-bor Hui, International Affairs , Vol. 83, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 201-202
Contributor, An Edited Transcript from a Round-Table Conference on Authoritarian Capitalism ( Stockholm : Glasshouse Forum, 2008)
Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Markets: The Role of Multinational Corporations ( London : The Foreign Policy Centre, 2008)
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PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
November 2009
Presentation on "The Rise of Chinese Exceptionalism in International Relations," The British Inter-University China Centre conference "The Global Politics of China," London and Manchester
October 2009
Paper on "Does China have an International Strategy?" Presented at the annual conference of Millennium: Journal of International Studies , the London School of Economics
October 2009
Presentation on "Beyond the Tribute System," Contemporary China Studies Program, Oxford University
June 2009
Paper on "Rethinking the Tribute System," presented at "International Conference in Honour of Wang Gungwu's Scholarship: Bridging China Studies and International Relations Theory," Singapore
February 2009
Participant, China-West intellectual summit, the Glasshouse Forum, Paris
February 2009
Paper on "Regionalization in the Tianxia? Continuity and Change in China 's Foreign Policy," Poster session on " China : Internal Threats and External Challenges," International Studies Association annual convention, New York
August 2008
Paper on "Chinese Domination in Historical East Asia: Sino-Mongol Relations in the Early Ming Dynasty (1368-1424)," Panel on "Balance, Power and Domination in Historical International Systems," American Political Science Association annual meeting, Boston
July 2008
Paper on "Domination and Resistance: Moving beyond the "Tribute System' in Interpreting Traditional East Asian Politics," Panel on "Inventing New IR Paradigms?: East Asian Perspectives," Second Global International Studies Conference (WISC), University of Ljubljana , Slovenia
April 2008
Presentation on "Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy," Roundtable on the project "The Return of Capitalist-Authoritarian Great Powers," The Glasshouse Forum, Paris , France
March 2008
Paper on "The Structure of the Historical East Asian System from the Perspective of Sino-Korean Relations," Panel on "Bringing Historical Asia into the Study of World Order," International Studies Association annual conference, San Francisco
March 2008
Presentation on "Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Markets," ITEC International PhD Workshop, Doshisha University , Kyoto , Japan
June 2006
Presentation on "China at the Crossroads", the Center for International Studies Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Vincent Cheng PhD Scholarship, London School of Economics 2006-2009
Graduate Merit Award, London School of Economics 2003-2004
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LANGUAGES
English, Mandarin Chinese
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PERSONAL
Chinese citizen