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{{Short description|Chinese political scientist}}
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'''Wang Jisi''' (Chinese: 王缉思) is President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at [[Peking University]]. He was Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University from 2005 to 2013. He has been Peking University Boya Chair Professor since 2017. He is also honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies.<ref name=asiasociety-jisi/><ref name="www.sis.pku.edu.cn/english/">{{Cite web |url=http://www.sis.pku.edu.cn/english/ |title=Peking University School of International Studies official page |access-date=2010-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911210359/http://www.sis.pku.edu.cn/english/ |archive-date=2010-09-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>
'''Wang Jisi''' ({{Zh|s=王缉思|p=Wáng Jīsī}}) is a Chinese academic and international relations scholar. He currently serves as president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at [[Peking University]]. He was Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University from 2005 to 2013. He has been Peking University Boya Chair Professor since 2017.<ref name=asiasociety-jisi/><ref name="www.sis.pku.edu.cn/english/">{{Cite web |url=http://www.sis.pku.edu.cn/english/ |title=Peking University School of International Studies official page |access-date=2010-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911210359/http://www.sis.pku.edu.cn/english/ |archive-date=2010-09-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In addition to his academic work, Wang has been "closely associated with China's [[Ministry of State Security (China)|Ministry of State Security]] for decades", joining undercover MSS officers, including then-head of the MSS United States operations bureau Lin Di and a spy previously declared ''[[persona non grata]]'' for falsely posing as a journalist, on trips to Japan and the US. He also served as an early member of the [[China International Culture Exchange Center]], a [[Front organization|front]] run by the 12th Bureau of the MSS.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Joske |first=Alex |title=Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World |publisher=Hardie Grant Books |year=2022 |isbn=9781743797990 |location=Melbourne |language=en-AUS |quote="At the same time, Wang has been closely associated with the MSS for decades. He became a member of the Social Investigation Bureau's CICEC front group in the early 1990s, joining its strange medley of scholars, artists and undercover officers, like future Minister of State Security [[Geng Huichang]]. Even before then, Wang was joining MSS officers on trips to Japan (including one who had previously been declared [[persona non grata]] while posing as a journalist) and the United States. As head of American studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the early 1990s, Wang was a colleague of MSS US operations guru Lin Di, who covertly managed the academy’s foreign exchanges for many years. In 1998, Lin, then operating as CICEC’s secretary-general, accompanied Wang to workshops in Tokyo and Washington. In 2003, Wang would join Lin and other MSS officers, now acting as researchers in China Reform Forum, at a RAND Corporation conference. These were the same events Lin used as cover to rendezvous with his Californian agents. Wang also headed the Central Party School’s Institute of International Strategic Studies at the peak of its deep collaboration with (MSS front) China Reform Forum." |author-link=Alex Joske}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Wang was born in [[Guangzhou]] in 1948.<ref name=chinavitae-jisi>{{cite web |url=https://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Wang_Jisi/summary |title=Wang Jisi |website=China Vitae |publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> He worked as a farm laborer from 1968 to 1978, then obtained a MA degree at [[Peking University]] in 1983.<ref name=asiasociety-jisi/>
Wang was born in [[Guangzhou|Canton]] (now Guangzhou) in 1948.<ref name=chinavitae-jisi>{{cite web |url=https://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Wang_Jisi/summary |title=Wang Jisi |website=China Vitae |publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> He worked as a farm laborer from 1968 to 1978, then obtained a MA degree at [[Peking University]] in 1983.<ref name=asiasociety-jisi/>


==Career==
==Career==
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==Awards==
==Awards==

In 2005 and again in 2012 ''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]'' named Wang one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers.<ref name=asiasociety-jisi/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,46 |title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers |date=26 November 2012 |work=[[Foreign Policy]] |accessdate=28 November 2012 |archivedate=2012-11-30 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130221322/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,33 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In 2005 and again in 2012 ''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]'' named Wang one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers.<ref name="asiasociety-jisi" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,46 |title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers |date=26 November 2012 |work=[[Foreign Policy]] |accessdate=28 November 2012 |archivedate=2012-11-30 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130221322/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,33 |url-status=live }}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 12:50, 8 May 2023

Wang Jisi
王缉思
Born
Wang Jisi

1948 (age 75–76)
Canton, Guangdong, Republic of China
NationalityChina
Alma materPeking University (M.A.)
EmployerPeking University

Wang Jisi (Chinese: 王缉思; pinyin: Wáng Jīsī) is a Chinese academic and international relations scholar. He currently serves as president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. He was Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University from 2005 to 2013. He has been Peking University Boya Chair Professor since 2017.[1][2]

In addition to his academic work, Wang has been "closely associated with China's Ministry of State Security for decades", joining undercover MSS officers, including then-head of the MSS United States operations bureau Lin Di and a spy previously declared persona non grata for falsely posing as a journalist, on trips to Japan and the US. He also served as an early member of the China International Culture Exchange Center, a front run by the 12th Bureau of the MSS.[3]

Early life

Wang was born in Canton (now Guangzhou) in 1948.[4] He worked as a farm laborer from 1968 to 1978, then obtained a MA degree at Peking University in 1983.[1]

Career

Wang taught at the Peking University Department of International Politics from 1983 to 1991.[1] Wang was a visiting academic at Oxford University (1982–83), University of California, Berkeley (1984–85), University of Michigan (1990–91), and Claremont McKenna College (2001).[1]

From 1992 to 2005, Wang was Director of the Institute of American Studies, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; he was invited to the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as endowed chair from 21 to 25 February and from 2 to 8 March 2002.[1][5] at what was then known as Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, within Nanyang Technological University.[6]

Wang was Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University from 2005 to 2013, then President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, a think tank affiliated with Peking University. He was concurrently director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party from 2001 to 2009.[1]

From 2008 to 2016 he was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.[1]

He was Global Scholar at Princeton University from 2011 to 2015, including 9 months at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[1][7]

Wang was on the International Crisis Group Board of Trustees.[8] Wang has served on the board of directors of the nonprofit Teach For China.[9]

Wang has published numerous English articles in the fields of U.S. foreign policy, China’s foreign relations, Asian security, and global politics.[1][10]

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Wang Jisi - Distinguished Fellow". Asia Society. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Peking University School of International Studies official page". Archived from the original on 2010-09-11. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  3. ^ Joske, Alex (2022). Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World. Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books. ISBN 9781743797990. At the same time, Wang has been closely associated with the MSS for decades. He became a member of the Social Investigation Bureau's CICEC front group in the early 1990s, joining its strange medley of scholars, artists and undercover officers, like future Minister of State Security Geng Huichang. Even before then, Wang was joining MSS officers on trips to Japan (including one who had previously been declared persona non grata while posing as a journalist) and the United States. As head of American studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the early 1990s, Wang was a colleague of MSS US operations guru Lin Di, who covertly managed the academy's foreign exchanges for many years. In 1998, Lin, then operating as CICEC's secretary-general, accompanied Wang to workshops in Tokyo and Washington. In 2003, Wang would join Lin and other MSS officers, now acting as researchers in China Reform Forum, at a RAND Corporation conference. These were the same events Lin used as cover to rendezvous with his Californian agents. Wang also headed the Central Party School's Institute of International Strategic Studies at the peak of its deep collaboration with (MSS front) China Reform Forum.
  4. ^ "Wang Jisi". China Vitae. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  5. ^ S. Rajaratnam Professorship in Strategic Studies S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, n.d.
  6. ^ About S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, n.d.
  7. ^ Nick DiUlio Four new Global Scholars set to visit campus, September 16, 2010, Princeton University News
  8. ^ "Crisis Group's Board of Trustees". International Crisis Group. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015.
  9. ^ "美丽支教项目". www.tfchina.org. Archived from the original on July 9, 2011.
  10. ^ Wang Jisi (July–August 2021). "The Plot Against China? How Beijing Sees the New Washington Consensus". Foreign Affairs. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  11. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. 26 November 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-11-30. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
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