Institutional Affiliation
University of Denver
Department of Political Science
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin Madison
M.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin Madison
B.A., Journalism, Fudan University
Research Interests
Japanese politics; Chinese politics; East Asian international relations
Regional and Thematic Interests
East Asia
Government/Political Systems
Profile
Jing Sun, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Denver. His areas of expertise are Japanese politics, Chinese politics, and East Asian international relations. Dr. Sun, a native of Beijing, received his B.A. in journalism from Fudan聽University in Shanghai. Upon graduation, he worked as a journalist for聽Xinhua, China's state news agency, from 1997 to 1999. He also worked for聽China Central Television, the聽People's Daily, and聽Beijing Youth Daily while he was a student at the School of Journalism of Fudan University. Dr. Sun came to the United States in 1999. He has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation, and was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Tokyo from 2003 to 2004 and at Waseda聽University from 2008 to 2009, at Shanghai International Studies University in 2013, and at Jilin Univerity (China) in 2014. He is the author of聽Japan and China as Charm Rivals: Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy聽(University of Michigan Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in聽Current History,听Asian Survey,听Asia Policy, and the聽Diplomat, among others. Dr. Sun is a regular contributor to the聽People's Forum, one of China's leading current affairs magazines. He has received interviews from American, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian media outlets. Dr. Sun speaks English, Mandarin, and Japanese fluently.
Selected Publications
2013. 鈥淭he German Puzzle 鈥� a Political Analysis of Chinese Popular Affection for Germany.鈥� Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences聽6, no. 4: 1-26.
2013. 鈥淐harmless Offensive: the Fate of Soft Power in East Asia.鈥� First in a series of 鈥淪oft Power Revisited,鈥� in Current History: a Journal of Contemporary World Affairs聽112, no. 755: 217-223.
2013. 鈥淭he Journey Home 鈥� How to House Soft Power in Mainstream IR Scholarship.鈥� Asia Policy聽15, no. 1: 148-154.
2012.听Japan and China as Charm Rivals: Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy.聽University of Michigan Press.