Dr. Bo
Zhiyue is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University
of Singapore. He obtained his Bachelor of Law and Master of Law from Peking
University and PhD from the University of Chicago.
His
teaching career spans from Beijing University, Roosevelt University, the
University of Chicago, American University, St. John Fisher College, Tarleton
State University, to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a recipient of
the Trustees' Distinguished
Scholar Award at St. John Fisher College and the inaugural holder
of the Joe and Theresa Long
Endowed Chair in Social Science at Tarleton State University.
His
research interests include China's elite politics, Chinese provincial leaders,
central-local relations, and cross-strait relations. He is the author of Chinese
Provincial Leaders: Economic Performance and Political Mobility since 1949 (M.
E. Sharpe, 2002), China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and
Power Balancing (World Scientific, 2007), China's Elite Politics:
Governance and Democratization (World Scientific, 2010), and China's Reform in Global Perspective (World
Scientific, 2010).
