Sheng Ding, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Bloomsburg University
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg PA 17815

Office: (570) 389-4336
Fax: (570) 389-2094

E-mail: shengding.research@gmail.com


Curriculum Vitae


Book

The Dragon’s Hidden Wings: How China Rises with Its Soft Power (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books—an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2008). (Hardcover and paperback editions)


Refereed Journal Articles

Sheng Ding and Rey Koslowski. 2017. Chinese Soft Power and Immigration Reform: Can Beijing’s Approach to Pursuing Global Talent and Maintaining Domestic Stability Succeed? Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 97-116.

Sheng Ding. 2015. Engaging Diasporas via Charm Offensive and Indigenized Communication: An Analysis of China’s Diaspora Engagement Policies in the Xi Era. Politics, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 230-244.

Sheng Ding. 2015. Modernization without Democratization in the Digital Age: China’s Micromanagement of its Contentious State-Society Relations. Asian Journal of Political Science, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-22.

Sheng Ding. 2012. Are Human Rights the Achilles’ Heel of Chinese Soft Power? A New Perspective on the Appeal of Chinese Soft Power. Asian Perspective, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 641-665.

Sheng Ding. 2012. Embracing the Tension between Ethnic Identity and Academic Identity: An Analysis of Challenges to Chinese American Political Scientists’ Presentation of Knowledge. Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 379-399.

Sheng Ding. 2011. “Branding A Rising China: An Analysis of Beijing’s National Image Management in the Age of China’s Rise. Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 293-306.

Sheng Ding. 2010. Analyzing Rising Power from the Perspective of Soft Power: A New Look at China’s Rise to the Status Quo Power. Journal of Contemporary China, no. 64, pp. 255-272.

Sheng Ding. 2009. Informing the Masses and Heeding Public Opinion: China’s New Internet-Related Policy Initiatives to Deal with its Governance Crisis. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 31-43.

Sheng Ding. 2008. To Build a ‘Harmonious World’: China’s Soft Power Wielding in the Global South.” Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 193-214.

Sheng Ding. 2007. 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, pp. 627-648.

Yanzhong Huang and Sheng Ding. 2006. The Dragon’s Underbelly: An Analysis of China’s Soft Power. East Asia: An International Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 22-44.

Robert A. Saunders and Sheng Ding. 2006. Digital Dragons and Cybernetic Bears: Comparing the Overseas Chinese and Near Abroad Russian Web Communities. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 255-290.

Sheng Ding and Robert A. Saunders. 2006. 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, pp. 3-33.


Book Chapters

Sheng Ding. 2018. “China’s Soft Power.” In Tim Wright, eds., Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Oxford University Press.

Sheng Ding. 2018. “Promoting Chinese Culture in China’s Public Diplomacy” in Ines Sieckmann and Odila Triebel, eds., A New Responsible Power China? China’s Public Diplomacy for Global public Goods. Stuttgart, GE: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.

Sheng Ding. 2016. “The Political Rationale of China’s Deliberately Limited Role in the Libyan Civil War” in Dag Henriksen and Ann Karin Larsen, eds., Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Sheng Ding. 2014. “Analyzing the Impacts of Civil Society Organizations on China’s Political Modernization,” in Sujian Guo (eds), State-Society Relations and Governance in China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington.

Sheng Ding. 2012. “Great Firewall of China: Internet Censorship and Chinese Foreign Policies,” in Emilian Kavalski (eds), Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy. Farmham, U.K.: Ashgate 2012.

Sheng Ding. 2011. “Foreign Publicity with Weak Political Credibility: A Case Study of Beijing’s Foreign Publicity over the Tibet Riots,” in Zhiqun Zhu (ed.) The People’s Republic of China Today: Internal and External Challenges. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.

Sheng Ding. 2009. “To Build a Government of Better Transparency and More Accountability: The CCP’s Governance Performance in the Hu Era,” in Baogang Guo and Dennis Hickey (eds), Toward Better Governance in China: an Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington.

Sheng Ding. 2009. “A Concealed Regionalization without Historical Roots: A New Form of Regionalism in Rising China’s Foreign Policy,” in Emilian Kavalski (eds), China and the Global Politics of Regionalization. Farmham, U.K.: Ashgate.

Sheng Ding. 2008. “To Build a ‘Harmonious World’: China’s Soft Power Wielding in the Global South,” in Sujian Guo and Jean-Marc F. Blanchard (eds), “Harmonious World” and China’s New Foreign Policy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington. (Reprinted)


Non-refereed Articles, Policy Papers and Book Reviews

Sheng Ding. 2017. Review of John W. Garver, China’s Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China (Oxford University Press, 2016). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 22 (2).

Sheng Ding. 2016. Review of Daniel C. Lynch, China’s Future: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics and Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2015). Journal of Asian Studies, 75 (4).

Sheng Ding. 2015. Review of Jessica C. Teets, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 20 (3).

Sheng Ding. 2015. Chinese Language and Beijing's Public Diplomacy. China Policy Institute Blog, The University of Nottingham. June 9. URL: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/2015/06/09/chinese-language-and-beijings-public-diplomacy/

Sheng Ding. 2014. Review of Steve Chan, Looking for Balance: China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2012). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 19 (4).

Sheng Ding. 2014. China’s Dilemma in the Ukraine Crisis. Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 255, March 27, East-West Center in Washington. URL: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/apb255.pdf

Sheng Ding. 2014. The Chinese Civil Society Needs to be Nurtured by a Sound Legal Framework. Review essay on the book Karla W. Simon, Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the “New Reform Era” (Oxford University Press, 2013). Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 7 (1).

Sheng Ding. 2014. Chinese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy. EAI Fellows Program Working paper Series, East Asia Institute, No. 43.

Sheng Ding. 2013. Review of Karla W. Simon, Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the “New Reform Era” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 18 (4).

Sheng Ding. 2013. Can the CCP Really Afford to Play the Nationalist Card? Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 196, January 17, 2013. East-West Center in Washington. URL: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/apb196_1.pdf

Sheng Ding. 2013. Soft Power Diplomacy: A New Perspective on the Study of Japanese and Chinese Foreign Policy. Review essay on the book Jing Sun, Japan and China as Charm Rivals: Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy (The University of Michigan Press, 2012). Asia Policy, No. 15 (January 2013). URL: http://nbr.org/publications/asia_policy/Free/AP15/AP15_G_CharmRivals.pdf

Sheng Ding. 2012. Can One Hill Shelter Two Tigers? An Analysis of the Sino-Indian Relationship. Review essay on the book Jonathan Holslag, China and India: Prospects for Peace (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010). Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 5 (4).

Sheng Ding. 2012. Review of Brantly Womack, China Among Unequals: Asymmetric Foreign Relationship in Asia (World Scientific Publisher, 2010). China Review International, 19 (1).

Sheng Ding. 2012. Don’t Worry About the Bashing Game. The Diplomat, March 24. URL: http://the-diplomat.com/2012/03/24/don%E2%80%99t-worry-about-the-china-bashing/

Sheng Ding. 2012. All Join in the China-bashing Game. Viewpoints, China Radio International. March 7. URL: http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/03/07/3141s685328.htm

Sheng Ding. 2012 Review of Shalendra D. Sharma, China and India in the Age of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 17, no. 1.

Sheng Din. 2011. Internet Activism and Its Role in China’s Transforming State-Society Relations. Review essay on the book Guobin Yang, The Power of The Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press 2009). Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 4, no. 2.

Sheng Ding. 2010. Sons of The Yellow Emperor Go Online: The State of the Chinese Digital Diaspora. Global Migration and Transitional Politics Series, No. 13, George Mason University. URL: http://cgs.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/gmtp_wp_13.pdf

Sheng Ding. 2010. Review of Yongnian Zheng, Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China (Stanford University Press, 2008). Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 15, no. 4.

Sheng Ding. 2008. Review of Alan M. Wachman, Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China’s Territorial Integrity (Stanford University Press, 2007). Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 13, no. 3.

Sheng Ding. 2008. Review of Elizabeth C. Hanson, The Information Revolution and World Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). International Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 4.

Sheng Ding. 2008. Review of Bates Gill, Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Institute Press, 2007). Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 13, no. 1.

Sheng Ding. 2007. Review of Christopher Marsh, Unparalleled Reforms: China’s Rise, Russia’s Fall, and The Interdependence of Transition (Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). East Asia: An International Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3.

Sheng Ding. 2007. Review of Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen, eds., Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm (Princeton University Press, 2005). Journal of Politics, vol. 69, no. 3.

Sheng Ding. 2006. Review of Danny Paau and Herbert Yee, eds., Return of the Dragon: US-China Relations in the 21st Century (New York: Peter Lang, 2005). East Asia: An International Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1.