Speaker
John DELURY
Affliation
GSIS at Yonsei University
Title
Professor of Chinese Studies
Session

Biography

John Delury is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, where he teaches modern China history, US-China relations, and North Korean history and politics. He is the author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century, and is at work on two book manuscripts—a diplomatic and intelligence history of Sino-US relations in the Cold War, and a political history of North Korea. He contributes regularly to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and 38 North, and serves as associate managing editor of Global Asia. He is a senior fellow of the Asia Society and Pacific Century Institute and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea. Before joining Yonsei, he taught at Brown, Columbia, and Peking University, and was associate director of the Asia Society Center on US-China Relations. He received his BA, MA, and PhD in history from Yale University.