Dr. Shiping Hua, Associate Institute Director
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Louisville
(Ph.D., Hawaii) Comparative Politics, East Asia Political Science
E-mail: s0hua002@louisville.edu

Dr. Shiping Hua is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Institute for Democracy and Development at The University of Louisville, USA. He has bee serving as the President of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (USA) since 2004. Dr. Hua has recently been appointed Professor in Affiliation with Peking University.  He serves on the editorial board of the refereed journal, Journal of Chinese Political Science. He has held East West Center Scholarship (1990-1994) and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, George Washington University Fellowship (2004-2005). He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Year Book of Chinese Political Science edited by Peking University in China.

Dr. Hua’s most recent books are: Political Civilization and Modernization in China, edited with Yang Zhong; Chinese Political Culture (1989-2000); and Scientism and Humanism: Two Cultures in Post-Mao China (1978-1989). His next book, The Beijing-Taipei-Washington Triangle Revisited: Perspectives from the Three Parties (1995-2005) will be published by Palgrave- Macmillan Press in fall 2006. Dr. Hua has published over 30 research articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and essays, in such academic journals as Modern China, East Asia, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (now Critical Asian Studies), The China Journal, Asian Thought and Society, China Information, Problems of Post-Communism, and Journal of Chinese Political Science.  His writings also appeared in popular publications such as Wilson Quarterly and The New York Times.