Kerry Brown (Sinologist)

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Kerry Brown (* 1967 ) is a British sinologist and publicist. He heads the China Institute at King's College , London, is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts . Kerry Brown is considered to be one of the most influential Chinese experts in the western world.

He specializes in the history of China after 1949, Chinese economic policy, the function and history of the Communist Party of China, China's international relations, China's relations with the United Kingdom and the European Union, Taiwanese history and politics, Hong Kong history and politics , and Far East geopolitics .

life and career

Kerry Brown meets Wen Jiabao , 2009

Brown graduated from Cambridge with an MA . He then taught English at a school in Japan and visited China for the first time in 1991. After returning to London, he studied Mandarin for a year at Thames Valley University . He completed postgraduate studies at the University of Leeds as a Ph. D.

From 1998 to 2005 he worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as First Secretary of the British Embassy in Beijing and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippines and East Timor Department.

He was a Senior Fellow from 2006 to 2012 and has been Head of the Asia Program at Chatham House since 2015 . From 2012 he worked at the University of Sydney , where he taught at the China Studies Center until 2015 . From 2011 to 2014 he was also head of the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN) of the European Union.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Cultural Revolution in the Inner Mongolian Region of the People's Republic of China 1966-1969. A Function of Language, Violence and Politics. 2004. (Oriental Cambridge University Inner Asian Studies.) (Also Diss. Leeds.)
  • Struggling Giant. China in the 21st Century . Anthem Press, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84331-278-9 .
  • The Rise of the Dragon. Inward and Outward Investment in China in the Reform Period 1978-2007 . Chandos Publ., 2008, ISBN 978-1-84334-481-0 .
  • Friends and Enemies. The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China . 2009.
  • China 2020. The Next Decade for the People's Republic of China . Chandos Publ. 2011. (Chandos Asian Studies Series).
  • Hu Jintao: China's Silent Ruler . World Scientific, Singapore 2012, ISBN 978-981-4350-02-0 .
  • The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China . Tauris, London 2014.
  • What's Wrong with Diplomacy. The Case of the UK and China . Penguin, Harmondsworh 2015 ISBN 978-0-7343-1056-9
  • China's CEO: Xi Jinping . Tauris, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-78453-322-9
  • With Simone van Nieuwenhuizen: China and the New Maoists . The University of Chicago Press. Zed Books 2016.
  • CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping . Tauris, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-78453-877-4
  • China's Dream: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of Its Power . Cambridge, Oxford: Polity 2018. ISBN 978-1-5095-2457-0
  • China's World. What Does China Want . Tauris, London 2018.
  • With Kalley Wu Tzu-hui: The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China . Zed Books, London, 2019. ISBN 978-1-78699521-6

Kerry Brown is editor of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography , Vol. 1–4, 2014–2015 and co-editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs .

He has published essays on China in journals such as Far Eastern Economic Review and International Affairs , for The World Today, The Liberal, FT China online , wrote for the New York Times , The Guardian , the Daily Telegraph , Australian Financial Review, The Australian , South China Morning Post and commentary for Bloomberg , BBC , CNBC , Al Jazeera and others. a.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Kerry Brown, King's College London, accessed December 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Kerry Brown, King's College Researchgate, accessed December 2, 2018
  3. ↑ Andrew Moody: How foreign policy is transforming China's standing on the global stage In: The Telegraph, May 25, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018
  4. ↑ Andrew Moody: Brown: China now a 'central force' in: China Daily, March 30, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018
  5. ↑ Asian Affairs Vol. 38. No. 2, 2007, accessed December 2, 2018
  6. ↑ Chatham House - Kerry Brown , accessed December 3, 2018.
  7. ^ Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Program, Chatham House Italian Institute for International Political Studies, accessed December 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Kerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sinologist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967