Speakers' Bio:
Xiaowei Zang is a Professor and Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Chair Professor of Social Sciences, City University of Hongkong. He obtained BA from Xiamen University, China, MA and PhD from University of California, Berkeley, U.S. Professor Xaowei Zang joined CityU as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences in August 2013. He was Professor of Chinese Studies and Head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield between 2008 and 2013. He has studied ethnicity and elite behaviour in China and has produced more than 120 research outputs including five authored books, 14 edited volumes, and many research papers in referred journals. His current research interests include para-police behaviour in China and crime trends and patterns of recidivism in Hong Kong.
Shunji Cui is an Associate Professor of International Politics and Deputy Director in the Department of Political Science, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University. She was awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship in 2010 at LSE, UK; and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in 2012-13 and taught at Marian University, USA. Her research has dealt with international relations and non-traditional security cooperation with reference to China-Japan and East Asian relations. Her publications include: ‘Great Power Management in International Society’ The Chinese Journal of International Politics (2016, with Barry Buzan); ‘Conflict Transformation: East China Sea Dispute and Lessons from the Ecuador-Peru Border Dispute,’ Asian Perspective (2014); ‘Human Development and Human Dignity: Rethinking the Concept of Human Security’, Journal of International Security Studies (2014, in Chinese); ‘Beyond History: Non-Traditional Security Cooperation and The Construction of Northeast Asian International Society,’ Journal of Contemporary China (2013); ‘Problems of Nationalism and Historical Memory in China’s Relations with Japan,’ Journal of Historical Sociology (2012); ‘(De)Securitising Frontier Security in China: Beyond the Positive and Negative Debate’, Cooperation and Conflict (2011, with Jia Li).