Cross-Strait Relations: New Challenges or New Opportunities?

Dr. Wu Xinbo, professor at the Center for American Studies, Fudan University, and the Vice-President, Shanghai Institute of American Studies. He teaches China-US relations and writes widely about China's foreign policy, Sino-American relations and Asia-Pacific issues. Prof. Wu is the author of Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China, 1909-1913 (Fudan University Press, 1997) and has published numerous articles and book chapters in China, U.S., Japan, Germany, South Korea, Singapore and India. He is also a frequent contributor to Chinese and international newspapers.

Born in 1966 in Anhui Province, East China, Wu Xinbo entered Fudan University in 1982 as an undergraduate student and received his B.A. in history in 1986. In 1992, he got his Ph. D. in international relations from Fudan University. In the same year, he joined the Center for American Studies, Fudan University. In 1994, he spent one year at the George Washington University as a visiting scholar. In the Fall of 1997, he was a visiting fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University and the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington DC. From January to August, 2000, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Part of the Cross-strait Series host by the Shorenstein Forum at the Asia-Pacific Research Center.