Jae Ho Chung is a professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Program on US-China Relations at Seoul National University. A graduate of Seoul National University, Brown University, and the University of Michigan where he received his Ph.D. in 1993, Chung taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1993-1996) and was the Brookings Institution’s CNAPS Fellow (2002-2003). He was the Director of the Institute for International Studies (2004-2006) and of the Institute for China Studies (2008-2011). He was also the recipient of the John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation’s Asian Security Initiative Grant during 2009 to 2012.
Chung is the author or editor of 18 books, including Central Control and Local Discretion in China (Oxford University Press, 2000), Between Ally and Partner (Columbia University Press, 2007), Assessing China’s Power (Palgrave, 2015), and Centrifugal Empire: Central-Local Relations in China (Columbia University Press, 2016). He is a recipient of Seoul National University’s Best Researcher Award in 2009, of the Korean Association for International Studies’ Best Book Award in 2012, and the American Library Association’s Choice Award in 2017 for Centrifugal Empire.
