Dr.
Ding joined Bloomsburg University as an assistant professor of political
science in August 2006. He received his masters and doctoral
degrees from Rutgers,
the
State University of New Jersey.
Born in Yangzhou (China), Dr. Ding had spent 18 years in that culture-condensed
historical city before he went to college. After he graduated from
the Institute of International Relations (currently University of
International Relations) in Beijing in 1997, he had worked as an assistant
research
fellow in
a prestigious
governmental
think tank in Beijing for three years. Before he came to the states
in 2000, he had published numerous Chinese scholarly articles in
China.
Dr. Ding has
regional expertise on Pacific Asia. His research interests include
soft power in international relations; transnational identity
in globalization; information technology and world politics; politics
of Pacific Asia; Chinese politics and foreign policy; U.S.-China
relations, etc. His book—The Dragon's Hidden Wings: How China
rises with its soft power—will be
published by Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington in July 2008. His research
articles have
been published by Pacific
Affairs,
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, East Asia, and Journal
of Chinese Political Science.
He has also presented
many
research
papers
at
national and
international
conferences. His next research project is about
Chinese Diaspora and the Globalization of Chinese Politics.
Recent Publications (peer-reviewed):
The Dragon's Hidden Wings: How China rises with its soft
power (Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington 2008), forthcoming.
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“To Build
a ‘Harmonious World’: China’s Soft Power Wielding in the Global
South” Journal
of Chinese Political Science, vol. 13, no. 2 (2008),
pp. 193-214.
“Digital Diaspora
and National Image Building: A New Perspective on Chinese Diaspora Study
in the Age of China’s Rise” Pacific
Affairs,
vol. 80, no. 4 (2007),
pp. 627-48.
“The Dragon’s
Underbelly: An Analysis of China’s Soft Power” East
Asia: An International Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4 (2006), pp.
22-44. (with Yanzhong Huang)
“Digital Dragons
and Cybernetic Bears: Comparing the Overseas Chinese and Near Abroad
Russian Web Communities” Nationalism
and Ethnic Politics, vol. 12, no. 2 (2006), pp. 255-90. (with
Robert A. Saunders)
“Talking Up
China: An Analysis of Cultural Power and the Global Popularization of
the Chinese Language” East Asia: An International
Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2 (2006), pp. 3-33. (with Robert A.
Saunders) (Lead article)
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