Kerry Brown – Resume

Addressc/o China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Australia

Telephone0061 401 687 815

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Career Details

2012- Director of the China Studies Centre and Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney, Australia.

Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House

Team Leader, Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN)

2005- 2012Senior Fellow, and then Head, Asia Programme, Chatham House, London, running the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN) for the EU.

2009- Research Associate, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

2010- Associate, IDEAS Centre, London School of Economics

2003-2005Head of the Indonesia, Philippines and East Timor Section, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, in charge of UK’s political relationship with these countries.

2000-2003First Secretary, British Embassy, Beijing.

1998-1999Entered British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Head, China Section, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

1996-1998Business Manager, H and T Walker, trading with China.

1994-1996Lecturer in English, Post Graduate Students, Inner Mongolia Medical College, China.

1990-1991Secondary school teacher, Torahime High School, Japan

Academic

2007 Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian Studies Centre, LondonSchool of Economics. Associate, China Policy Centre, Nottingham University, UK

2003Extensive (advanced) Mandarin Chinese Foreign Office Language Exam.

1998-2004Ph D, Department of East Asian Studies, LeedsUniversity. Thesis published in 2006 by Global Oriental Ltd, UK.

1992-1993Post Graduate Diploma in Mandarin Chinese, with Distinction, Thames Valley University, London. Awarded language award from Great Britain China Centre, UK.

1986-1989MA in English Literature, from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Awarded Webb Essay Prize, 1989.

Publications

Books

`The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People’s Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1967-1969: A Function of Language, Power and Violence’, Global Oriental Cambridge University Inner Asian Studies Series, 2006

`Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century,’ Anthem Press, June 2007

`Rise of the Dragon: The Story of Chinese Inward and Outward Investment During the Reform Period’, Chandos Publishing, (January 2008)

`Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present, and Future of the Communist Party of China’ (Anthem, London, 2009)

`China 2020: The Coming Decade’ Edited, (Chandos Publishing, Oxford, 2011)

`Ballot Box China: Rural Democracy and Why it Matters for the Future of the People’s Republic’, (Zed Books, 2011)

`Hu Jintao: China’s Silent Ruler’ (World Scientific, Singapore, 2012)

`Contemporary China’ (Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2013)

`Dictionary of Chinese Biography’ (Chief Editor), Berkshire Publishing USA, forthcoming 2014

`The EU in Context’ (Editor), Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2014

`Carnival China: Politics in the Era of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping’ (Imperial College Press, London, 2014)

`The New Emperors: Power and the Party in China’ (I B Tauris, London and New York, forthcoming 2014)

Shanghai 2020: The Future of China’s Great Cosmopolitan City’, (China Foreign Languages Press, 2014)

Book Chapters

`The Communist Party of China’, in Chris Ogden (Ed) `Routledge Handbook of Chinese Governance and Domestic Politics’, Routledge 2012

`China’s Military Industrial Complex’ (with Claude Zanardi) in Anna Stravianarkis and Jan Selby (ed), `Militarism and International Relations: Political Economy, Security, Theory’ (Routledge 2012)

`New Labour Policy towards China’ in Oliver Daddow and Jamir Gaskarth (Eds), `British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years’, Palgrave MacMillan 2011

`Chinese Softpower’ in Shaun Breslin (Ed) `Routledge Handbook of International Relations’ Routledge, 2010

`China’ in Robin Niblett (Ed), `US and the World’, Blackwell and Brookings, 2010

Essays and Articles

`Taiwan and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: Parallels and Divergences’, Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, Volume 4, December 2012, LSE, London

`The Communist Party of China and Ideology’, China: An International Journal, August 2012

`Chinese Foreign Direct Investment’ in `International Spectator’, Volume 47, No 2, June 2012

`Wang Hui’ in `Journal of Contemporary Chinese, January 2011

`Village Elections: An Assessment’, in East Asian Policy, Singapore, Summer 2010

`Chinese Overseas Investment and Its Impact’ in Harvard Asia Review, December 2008.

`The Challenges of the Chinese Environment: EU and Chinese Co-operation in Context’ – European Strategic Forum, Brussels (2008)

`How the Other Half live in China’, International Affairs, January 2007

`The Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia’, Journal of the Royal Association of Asian Affairs, Summer 2007

`On Being Mongolian’ , Critical Asian Studies, Autumn 2004

Have had articles published in China Review (UK), Critical Asian Studies (USA), China Journal (Australia), China Information (Sweden), Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (UK), International Affairs (UK), China Trade (UK), PN Review (UK), Online Asian Review of Books and Hong Kong Standard (Hong Kong), and Jacket Magazine (Australia), The Guardian (co-writer of Chinese Leadership obituaries), The World Today, IISS Journal, China Daily, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independent on Sunday, Literary Review, Index on Censorship, Sunday Post, Times Literary Supplement.