ZHU Dandan is an associate professor in China Foreign Relations and the head of the Diplomatic Studies Teaching Sector.

Biographical Statement

ZHU Dandan completed her M.Phil. in international relations at the University of Cambridge, and her Ph.D. in international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main research interests are contemporary Chinese foreign relations and foreign policy analysis. Her research focuses on issues related to East Asia studies, in particular Sino-Japanese relations; and Chinese foreign policy transition in the 1980s.

Dr. ZHU teaches three main courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels: Contemporary China’s Foreign Relations (teaching language: Chinese); Foreign Policy Analysis (teaching language: English); and Mass Media and Foreign Policy (teaching language: English).

Dr. ZHU is a researcher with the Collaborative Innovation Center for Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights at China Foreign Affairs University; a senior consultant with the "One Belt One Road" Institute of Strategic Studies, China Youth University of Political Studies; and book review editor of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy.

Main Publications

Books:

1956: Mao’s China and the Hungarian Crisis, Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2013;

Translated book (from English to Chinese) Martin Griffiths, Terry O'Callaghan, Steven C. Roach, International Relations: The Key Concepts (Second Edition), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2015.

Co-authored book:

Zhongguo waijiao shinian licheng [Review of China's Foreign Policy: 2001-2010], Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2012 (Three chapters, 30,000 words)

Textbook:

Foreign Policy Analysis: Key Concepts, Theories and Cases, Beijing: World Affairs Press, forthcoming in 2016.

Journal articles:

"The Hungarian Revolution and the Origins of China's Great Leap Policies, 1956-57," Cold War History 12, No. 3 (2012), pp.451-472；

"China's Diplomatic and Political Involvement in the 1956 Hungarian Crisis," Journal of Asian Politics and History fall, No.1. (2012), pp.81-106;

“Luelun duiwaizhengce zhong de xiandaiguojia gainian” [On the Concept of “Modern State” in the study of Foreign Policy Analysis] Xinshiye [new vision]，Issue 3, 2013, pp.90-92,101;

“Geming lixiang yu shehuizhuyi guojia guanxi 'xin yuanze'” [The Revolutionary Ideals and the “New Principles” in Dealing with the Socialist Countries’ relations] Waijiao Pinlun [Foreign Policy Review] Issue 3, 2013, pp.34-50 (this article has been reprinted by Renmindaxue fuyin baokanziliao - Zhongguowaijiao [Periodical Literatures Reprinted by Renmin University, China's Foreign Policy Section] Issue 8, 2013, pp.66-78)

"Wangluoshidai Meiguo guojia'anquankuangjia xia de xinxianquan yu duiwaizhengce" [Analysis of U.S. Information Security and Foreign Policy under the framework of its National Security Strategy] Liaoningdaxue xuebao [Journal of Liaoning University, Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition] (Bimonthly, founded in 1959], Issue 2 (Sum No.254) Vol.43, 2015, pp. 155-160.

"Japan's Strategic Interpretations of and Responses to 'Belt and Road' Initiatives," Zhongguo zhoubian waijiao xuekan [Journal of Chinese Diplomacy toward Neighboring Countries] Vol.2, 2015, Beijing: Shehuikexuewenxian, pp.173-189.

Articles in an edited book:

"Dui Zhongguo hepinggongchu wuxiangyuanze shiyongyu shehuizhuyizhenyingguanxi de lishi kaocha” [Historical Study of China's Peaceful Coexistence Policy and Its Applications in the Socialist World] in Lifu Huang ed., Xinshilaio, Xinfaxian: Zhongguo yu sudongguanxi [New Historical Information, New Studies: China and the Soviet bloc], Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue Press, 2014, pp.103-121.

"Riben dui 'Yidai Yilu' changyi de jiedu yu yingdui" [Japan's Interpretations and Responses to "One-Belt One-Road" Initiative --Analysis of Japanese Mainstream News Coverage] in Research Center of China's Relations with Neighboring Countries, Fudan University ed., Zhongguo zhoubian waijiao xuekan [ Journal of China's Neighboring Diplomacy] Vol.2, Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue Press, 2015.

Book review:

“The Soviet Union, the Soviet Bloc, and China: Studying the Sino-Soviet Alliance from a New Perspective”, translated for H-Diplo by Steven Levine, University of Montana, H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Austin Jersild, The Sino-Soviet Alliance; An International History.  Chapel Hill:  The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/72531/h-diplo-roundtable-xvi-27-sino-soviet-alliance-international