Professor Yuan Ming
Director of the Institute of International Relations, University of Peking
Professor Yuan Ming is Deputy Dean of School of International Studies, Director of the Institute of International Relations and also the Director of the American Studies Center of Peking University. She finished her graduate study at Peking University and was a visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley from 1983 to 1985. From 1989 to 1990, she was a Senior Associate Member at the St. Antony's College in Oxford University, UK. Since 1995, she was invited and did research at some leading American institutions including the Carter Center in Atlanta, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. She travels a lot in the world and is a frequent speaker at many international gatherings such as the Trilateral Commission, the World Economic Forum, the Club of Rome, etc.
Professor Yuan Ming teaches the History of International Relations, Western Classics of International Relations at Peking University. Her publications include A History of International Relations(1648--1989), Cross Century Assignment: the International Relations Studies in China, She is also the co-editor of Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955, the Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989.
Professor Yuan Ming is a Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and also a Member of the Committee of Foreign Relations of CPPCC. She sits on the boards of numbers of organizations in China. She was also the Trustee of the Asia Society in New York (1998-2004). She joined the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York In 2004 and the Board of the United Nations Foundation in 2007.
