Jae-Ho Chung
Director and Professor, Institute for China Studies, Seoul National University
Chung Jae Ho is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Institute for China Studies at Seoul National University. For the period 2009-2012, he is the project manager of the MacArthur Foundation’s Asia Security Initiative grant on “Managing Sino-Korean Conflicts and Identifying the Role of the United States”
Chung is a graduate of Seoul National University, Brown University and the University of Michigan where he earned a Ph.D. in 1993. He taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) from 1993 to 1996 and was a fellow of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in 2002-2003. During the Fall of 2007, he was the Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at Renmin University School of International Studies.
Chung has advised a wide range of government and private organizations and serves on the editorial committees of China Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, Politics, East Asia, and Asian Perspective.
Chung is the author of Between Ally and Partner: Korea-China Relations and the United States (Columbia University Press, 2007) and Central Control and Local Discretion in China (Oxford University Press, 2000), and the editor of China’s Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in the Sub-national Hierarchy (Routledge, 2010) and Charting China’s Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).