Seong-Hyon Lee, is a research fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul. He lived in Beijing for 11 years. He is a graduate from Grinnell College, Harvard University, and Tsinghua University. He has a (Ph.D. in political communication. He was the 2013-14 Pantech Fellow at Stanford University. Currently, he is Senior Research Fellow (nonresident) at the Center for Korean Peninsula Studies at Peking University. His recent publications include “The U.S.-China Conflict and Leaderless International Order,” Quarterly Diplomacy, Oct., 2017 (In Korean); “Why Did We Get China Wrong? Reconsidering the Popular Narrative: China will abandon North Korea,” International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, 2016, vol. 25, no.1, pp. 65-93; “Chinese Scholarly Perspectives on Contemporary Sino–South Korean Relations,“ Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2016, pp. 265-275; “Historical Perspective on China’s ‘Tipping Point’ with North Korea,” Asian Perspective, 42 (2018), 33–60.
Last Updated: January 11, 2018
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