Speaker
John DELURY
Affliation
GSIS, Yonsei University
Title
Associate Professor
Session

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.