Centre for East Asian Studies

Profile

Yongjin Zhang is currently the Director of CEAS. He has previously had teaching and research appointments at the Institute of International Politics in Beijing, Oxford University, Australian National University and the University of Auckland and has held visiting positions at the University of Hong Kong, University of Oxford, Peking University, Renmin University, the University of British Columbia, the Australian Defence College and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Yongjin’s principal research interest and publications cut across the boundaries of international relations theory and Chinese history, politics, economic transformation and international relations. He has also published in the area of the political economy of Chinese global businesses and that of East Asian regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific. One of his current research projects is on International Relations in Ancient China: Ideas, Institutions and Law, an interdisciplinary research drawing upon political philosophy, history of ideas, ancient history and international relations theory.