Biography
John Delury is an associate professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, South Korea. A historian of modern China, his first book, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century, co-authored with Orville Schell, was published by Random House in 2013 and translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and he is now working on a book on US-China relations in the early Cold War period. He also follows Korean Peninsula affairs closely, writing regularly for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Global Asia, and 38 North. John is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea and a senior fellow at the Asia Society [New York] and Pacific Century Institute [Los Angeles]. He taught briefly at Brown, Columbia, and Peking Universities and was associate director of Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations. He received his BA, MA, and PhD in history from Yale University and has lived in Seoul with his wife and their three children since 2010.