Chunjuan Nancy Wei

Position:

Assistant Professor in Political
College:

College of Liberal Arts
Office:

GEH C315
您的邮箱:

chunwei@kean.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D., Political Science, Claremont Graduate University

M.A., Public Policy, Claremont Graduate University

M.S., International Administration, University of La Verne

Law, Beijing Foreign Studies University

B.A., English Language, Shanxi Normal University

TESOL /TESL/TEFL English Teaching Certification, Oxford Seminars

Biography

Dr. Wei is a past recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship and Sigma Iota Rho Outstanding Faculty Advisor. She has also served as the Fulbright Program Discipline Peer Reviewer (2017-2019). Previously, she taught at the University of Bridgeport (UB) as a tenured full professor. Dr. Wei taught courses in—and chaired—the M.A. East Asian and Pacific Rim Studies and the B.A. International Political Economy and Diplomacy programs. She served as Faculty Adviser to the UB Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho (the National International Studies Honor Society). Further, she has supervised doctoral students in completing their dissertations. Dr. also participated in forums on international development and global governance held at the United Nations in New York and at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. She has spoken on East Asian security issues at the European thinktank Friends of Europe in Brussels, Belgium, and appeared as guest in a dozen international media. She has led students to the United Nations and Model UN forums in New York, Washington D.C., Czech Republic, Italy, Canada, China, and Japan.

Dr. Wei has published on the South China Sea disputes, U.S.-China relations, East Asian political economy, and cross-Taiwan Strait politics in such journals as the Harvard Asia Quarterly, Yale Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, the Southeast Review of Asian Studies, The Diplomat, The Eurasia Review, International Journal on World Peace, E-International Relations (London) and Yonsei Journal of International Affairs. She has served as English-Chinese interpreter and translator, and has studied French, Korean, Russian, and Japanese. Dr. Wei enjoys Chinese chess, tennis, salsa dancing, yoga, and travel. She has traveled extensively, including trips to Japan, South Korea, the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. She also enjoys publishing with her students.

Research interests

Sino-U.S. Relations, Cross-Strait Relations, South China Sea conflicts, East Asian Political Economy, Geopolitics of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and Sun Tzu’s Art of War

Publications/scholarly and creative work

Books

Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China. Lexington Books, 2013. (With Darryl E. Brock, eds.)

Meiguo yaolan [Keys to Understanding America]. Dalian: Liaoning Normal University Press, 1996. (With Zongwen Wang)

Wanquan shagua: Qiuzhi [Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting the Job You Want by Mark Dorio.] (Translated with Zongwen Wang). Shenyang: Liaoning Education Press, 1999.

Book chapters

Chapter 8: “Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao’s Health Care.” In Chunjuan Nancy Wei, and Darryl E. Brock, eds., Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution (pp.251-280). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

Chapter 1: “Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” (with Darryl E. Brock). In Chunjuan Nancy Wei, and Darryl E. Brock, eds., Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution (pp.1-39). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

Chapter 4: “Cross-Strait Relations Today: Challenges and Opportunities.” In Zhiqun Zhu (ed.), New Dynamics in East Asian Politics: Security, Political Economy, and Society (pp.83-101). New York: The Continuum International, 2012.

Chapter 48: “Qian, Yingyi”; Chapter 94: “Zhang, Weiying”, Chapter 109: “Zuo, Xiaolei”. In Wenxian Zhang, Huiyao Wang and llan Alon (eds.), Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China: The Chinese Returnees who have Shaped Modern China. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald, 2011.

“The U.S. and China: The power of illusion” (With Hilton Root). In Hilton Root, Alliance curse: how America lost the Third World. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008.

Journal Articles

“Disputed Vietnamese Territories in the South China Sea: Structure, Physical- Geographical Characteristics, Management of Areas and Development.” Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, volume 7, no.1, Winter / Spring 2020, pp.30-52. With Mai Frndjibachian.

“From Mao to Deng to Xi: How Incentives Work for China.” International Journal on World Peace, Vol 37, No. 2, June 2019, pp.31-57.

“Xi Jinping’s Landmark Speech on Taiwan: A Hedging Strategy.” E-International Relations, January 29, 2019.

“Nested Games During the Pivot: China’s Strategy in The South China Sea.” East Asia Security Centre e-publication (Australia, Bond University), 2017.

“Taiwan’s Secession against Two Hosts: The Xi- Ma Summit and Its Implications for Future Cross-Strait Relations.” TEKA of the Commission of Political Science and International Affairs [Poland], No. 11/1 (2016), pp.125-137.

“Making Waves: Recent Developments of the South China Sea Disputes.” Yonsei Journal of International Affairs [Republic of Korea], Volume 8, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2016), pp.79-101. With John Falzerano.

“Beijing’s Formidable Strategy in the South China Sea,” The Diplomat, May 21, 2015.

“Lee Kuan Yew and the Survival of Micro States.” The Eurasia Review, March 31, 2015.

“New Chinese Banks: Right Out of Mao’s Playbook?” The Diplomat [Japan]. March 20, 2015.

“International Law and the South China Sea Disputes: China, Taiwan, and the Philippines.” Harvard Asia Quarterly, Summer 2013, Vol. 15, No.2, pp.29-36. With William Lay.

“From Mao Back to Confucius: China’s Approaches to Development and Peace.” Journal of Global Development and Peace, Spring 2010.

“China’s Anti-Secession Law and Hu Jintao’s Taiwan Policy.” Yale Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 5 (1), Winter 2010, pp.112-127.

“Democratic Paradox: What Has Gone Wrong in Thailand?” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol 31, 2009, pp.296-300.

“Paichu muyu siwei ganrao, tigao yingwen xiezuo nengli” [On how to improve college students’ English writing skills]. Daxue Waiyu Yanjiu [College English Studies, by Dalian University of Science & Engineering Press], 4, May 1998, 29-37.

“Pengsi mingshi A Red, Red Rose hanyi bijiao yanjiu” [A comparative study of the Chinese Translations of A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns]. Waiyu yu Waiyu Jiaoxue [Foreign Languages & Their Teaching (Bimonthly)], 6, 1997, 47-49. With Zongwen Wang.

“Jubi xie wanxiang, hongpian cheng yijue” [Analysis on Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms]. Daxue Waiyu Yanjiu [College English Studies, by Liaoning University Press], 2, April 1996, 38-45.

“Daxue Yingyu Jiaocheng Pompeii yiwen xiezuo shoufa xi” [Analysis on the writing skills of ‘Pompeii’ in College English]. Waiyu yu Waiyu Jiaoxue [Foreign Languages & Their Teaching (Bimonthly)], 6, December 1994, 30-32. With Zongwen Wang.

Book Reviews

Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China by Xiaoping Fang. Rochester, NY, Rochester University Press, 2012. Gesnerus 72, 2015, pp.163-4.

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China, by Jay Taylor. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University. Canadian Journal of History, XLV, Autumn 2010, pp.424-6.