Jing Sun
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin–
Madison, is Associate Professor
in the Department of Political
Science. 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 University in
Shanghai. Upon graduation, he
worked as a journalist for
Xinhua, China's state news
agency, from 1997 to 1999. He
also worked for China Central
Television, the People's Daily,
and 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 from 2008-2009, at Shanghai
International Studies University in 2013, and at Jilin University
(China) in 2014. He is the author of Japan and China as Charm
Rivals: Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy (University of Michigan
Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in Current History, Asian
Survey, Asia Policy, and Diplomat, among others, and he has
received interviews from American, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian
media outlets. Dr. Sun speaks English, Mandarin, and Japanese
fluently.