DEAN OF YENCHING ACADEMY, PEKING UNIVERSITY
Professor Yuan Ming is the Dean of Yenching Academy at Peking University, where she also teaches the History of International Relations and Western Classics of International Relations. She previously served as Associate Dean of Peking University’s Institute of International and Strategic Studies and as Director of its Center for American Studies.
Professor Yuan Ming was originally trained as a student of western language and literature at Peking University. Prior to her graduate work, she spent eight years in the rural areas in Northwest China. China’s Reform and Open Door policy allowed her to do her graduate work in the Law Department of Peking University and then to visit distinguished institutions abroad. She was a visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley from 1983 to 1985 and a senior associate member at the St. Antony’s College in Oxford University from 1989 to 1990.
In 1995, she performed research at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Her publications include Cross Century Assignment: the International Relations Studies in China and A History of International Relations (1648-1989), which is one of the leading publications and textbooks in China. She is also the co-editor of Sino-American Relations (1945-1955).
Professor Yuan Ming has organized many international conferences in China and has wide links in Asia, North America, Europe and Oceania. She is a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and a member of its Foreign Relations Committee. She sits on the boards of a number of institutions in China. She was also the trustee of the Asia Society in New York (1998-2004). In 2004, she joined the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Links:
Yuan Ming: Can everyday people help the UN?
Yuan Ming: What are the biggest need areas in the future?
Yuan Ming: Why is the UN important today?
Yuan Ming: Why did you join the UN Foundation board?