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 a 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 visited North Korea four times, and contributes regularly to Foreign Affairs, 38 North, and Global Asia (where he is book review editor). John is a senior fellow at the Asia Society, Pacific Century Institute, and China Policy Institute, adjunct fellow at the Center on International and Strategic Studies, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea. He taught briefly at Brown, Columbia, and Peking Universities, and was the founding associate director of Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations in New York. He received his BA, MA, and PhD in history from Yale University,
writing his dissertation under Jonathan Spence. He is currently writing a book on the Jack Downey affair and the spy war between the US and China in the 1950s.