John Delury is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies and Underwood International College in Seoul, South Korea. Trained as an historian of modern China, he is the author of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century (Random House, 2013), with Orville Schell, which was translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. He follows Korean Peninsula affairs closely, having lived in South Korea since 2010 and visited North Korea four times. He contributes regularly to Foreign Affairs, 38 North and Global Asia (where he is book review editor), and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and Washington Post. More of his writings can be found in American Foreign Policy Interests, Asian Perspective, Journal of Asian Studies and Late Imperial China. John is a senior fellow at the Asia Society, Pacific Century Institute and China Policy Institute, adjunct fellow at the Center on Strategic and International Studies, and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on North Korea, and National Committee on US-China Relations (where he was a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program). He taught briefly at Brown, Columbia, and Peking Universities, and served as founding associate director of Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations in New York from 2008-2010. He received his BA, MA and PhD in history from Yale University, writing his dissertation on the Ming-Qing dynasty transition political thinker Gu Yanwu. He is currently writing a book on the Jack Downey affair and the spy war between the US and China in the 1950s, as well as co-authoring a book on the political history of North Korea and the keys to the longevity and resilience of Kim family rule.
TITLE
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies
COURSES TAUGHT
Modern Chinese history; US-China relations (20th century); Modern China-Korea relations; International Studies
CONTACT
Phone: +82-2-2123-6284 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @JohnDelury
TITLE
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies
COURSES TAUGHT
Modern Chinese history; US-China relations (20th century); Modern China-Korea relations; International Studies
CONTACT
Phone: +82-2-2123-6284 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @JohnDelury