Steve Tsang

Steve Tsang (曾銳生) is a political scientist and historian whose expertise includes politics and governance in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the foreign and security policies of China and Taiwan, and peace and security in East Asia. Born in Hong Kong, Tsang received a B.A. at the University of Hong Kong in 1981 and D.Phil at St Antony's College, Oxford in 1986. He is currently a professor of contemporary Chinese studies at the University of Nottingham, and served as Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham (2014-2016) and Director of the China Policy Institute (2011-2014). In September 2016, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) announced the appointment of Professor Tsang as Professor of Chinese Studies and the new Director of the SOAS China Institute, effective 1 December 2016.[1] Prior to joining the University of Nottingham, he spent his career at the University of Oxford, where among other positions, he served as Director of the Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrorism and Intelligence (2005-2011), Dean of St Antony's College (2002, 1996–98), Director of the Taiwan Studies Programme (2001-2011), Director of the Asian Studies Centre (1997-2003) and Director of the Oxford University Hong Kong Project (1987–94).[2]

He is the author of A Modern History of Hong Kong (2004), which the last British Hong Kong governor Chris Patten described as "authoritative and well-researched".[3] He is also the author of Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the 19th Centruy to the Hand-over of China, 1862-1997 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007); The Cold War's Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the United Kingdom, 1950-1958 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006); Hong Kong: An Appointment with China (London:I.B. Tauris, 1997); Democracy Shelved: Great Britain, China and Attempts at Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, 1998). He is the author of numerous articles in refereed journals, including most recently "Chiang Kai-shek's 'secret deal' at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War"; "The U.S. Military and American Commitment to Taiwan's Security"; "Ma Ying-jeou's re-election: implications for Taiwan and East Asia" and "Consultative Leninism: China's new political framework".

He is an associate fellow at Chatham House, Associate Editor of Palgrave Communication (2014-), Editor of the Nottingham China Policy Institute Series for Palgrave Macmillan (2011-) and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for several academic journals [4] Tsang regularly contributes to public debates on issues related to the politics, history, and development of East Asia, particularly China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He is a frequent commentator in print media and on television and radio, particularly the BBC, where he has appeared on Newsnight, BBC News at Ten, World News, BBC News, News 24, The Talk Show, Today, PM, Newshour, What If, and various World Service programmes in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. His op-ed contributions have appeared in The New York Times,[5] Foreign Policy magazine, Jane's Intelligence Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, South China Morning Post, China Daily, Taipei Times, The Straits Times, The Globe and Mail, Chicago Tribune and the New Statesman amongst others.[6] He has provided expert opinions to parliamentary committees in the British House of Commons, the European Parliament, and the United States Congress.[4][6]

His wife is English writer Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang. They studied at Oxford University but did not meet until years later in a seminar on the 1997 Hong Kong Handover.[7]

References

  1. ↑ . SOAS https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem114648.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/tsang.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Patten, Chris (3 May 2004). "Eastern promise". New Statesman. Accessed 19 July 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Professor Steve Tsang". Chatham House. Accessed 19 July 2016.
  5. ↑ Wong, Alan (20 February 2016)."China Labels Protesters 'Radical Separatists,' and They Agree". The New York Times. Accessed 19 July 2016.
  6. 1 2 "The Study of Contemporary China at Nottingham". University of Nottingham. Accessed 19 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Pinchess, Lynette (18 June 2013). "The Woman Who Lost China". Nottingham Post. Accessed 19 July 2016.

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