SHENG DING, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/sding
Office:
(570) 389-4336
Fax:
(570) 389-2094
E-mail: shengding.research@gmail.com
Areas of Specialization and Interest
Soft Power; Information Technology and World Politics
Asian Politics;
Chinese Politics and
Foreign Policy;
U.S.-China Relations
Methodology (Comparative Methods; Qualitative and Critical Methods)
Education
LLB
University of International
Relations Beijing
MA, PhD Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
Dissertation Committee: Rey Koslowski (Chair), Yale H. Ferguson, Richard W. Wilson, and Richard Langhorne
Recent Peer-reviewed Publications:
The Dragon's Hidden
Wings: How China Rises with Its Soft Power (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington
2008).
“To Build a ‘Harmonious
World’: China’s Soft Power Wielding in the Global South” Journal of
Chinese Political Science, vol. 13, no. 2 (2008).
“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)
Works In Progress (with working titles)
US-China Relations and Analyzing Rising
Power from the Perspective of Soft Power (an article in progress)
"Branding A Rising Dragon" (an article in progress)
The "Identity" of Chinese Political Scientists
in North America (an article in progress)
An Assessment of CCP’s Governance Performance after the 17th CCP Congress (a
conference paper in progress)
“Chinese e-Government: A Trojan Horse of Democracy?”
(a conference paper in progress)
Chinese Diaspora and the Globalization of Chinese Politics (a research project
in progress)
Curriculum Vitae