Lanxin Xiang

Biography

Faculty member since 1996, Professor Xiang was previously Associate Professor at Clemson University, United States. He held the Kissinger Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations (2003-2004) at the Library of Congress, United States. He founded the Trilateral Forum for top-level policy-makers to discuss China. He was McArthur Foundation Fellow in Germany (1989), and Olin Fellow at Yale University (2003). Professor Xiang has held chairs at Fudan University in Shanghai and China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. He is a contributing editor for the publication Survival at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, and Dushu Magazine in Beijing.

Research Interest

His main research focus is East Asia, foreign and security policies, and modern China. His main publications include: "Tradition and Chinese Foreign Relations", "The Origins of the Boxer War" (2003, Chinese version nominated for national book awards), "Recasting the Imperial Far East" (2005), and "Mao’s Generals" (1998).