Curriculum Vitae

Maria Repnikova

Assistant Professor in Global Communication                 

Department of Communication
Georgia State University
25 Park Place, Suite 928
Atlanta, Georgia 30312
mrepnikova@gsu.edu

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin), Latvian, Russian, Spanish, Amharic (beginner)

Education

D.Phil. (Ph.D.) Politics, University of Oxford, 2014
M.Phil. Politics, University of Oxford, Rhodes Scholar, 2009
B.S. Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2006, cum laude

Previous Positions

Director, Center for Global Information Studies, Georgia State University, 2016-2019. Visiting Fellow, Beijing University, Center for African Studies, Summer 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2014-2016
Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, 2015-2016
Visiting Research Fellow, Government Department, Georgetown University, 2013 – 2015 Asan Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stimson Center, 2013-2014
Associated Researcher, Social Anthropology Department, University of Cambridge, 2013-2015
Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, Russia, 2010

Major Grants and Fellowships

Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, September 2020-May 2021. Dean’s Early Career Award for the College of Arts & Sciences, Georgia State University, 2020. Scholarly Support Pre-Tenured Grant, Georgia State University, 2020. Best Book of the Year Award by the International Journal of Press and Politics, 2019. Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, The College of Arts & Sciences, Georgia State University, 2018. Social Science Research Council Transregional Junior Research Fellow, 2018-2019. National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectuals Fellow (PIP), 2017-2019 Wai Seng Senior Research Scholar in Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Oxford, 2010
Rhodes Scholar, 2007
Fulbright Scholar, 2006

Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press: 2017)

Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism theorizes about participatory channels under authoritarianism through the prism of the relationship between China’s critical journalists and the party-state in the past decade. Drawing on over 120 in-depth interviews with journalists, officials, and experts, it depicts their routine interactions, as well as their dynamics following national crisis events. The book portrays the relationship between the two actors a fluid collaboration, characterized by “guarded improvisation,” whereby the two actors make continuous creative adjustments in response to one another under the shadow of the party-state.

The Fragmented Spectacle of Chinese Soft Power in Africa (in writing)

The Fragmented Spectacle of Chinese Soft Power in Africa interrogates whether a non-Western, state-driven soft power project can offer a viable alternative to the American Dream, especially in parts of the world where the US power is being contested, such as Africa, and specifically, Ethiopia. By positioning major Chinese cultural diplomacy efforts on the ground against their American counterparts, this book aims at reformulating cultural and discursive power through the lens of the Chinese experience and thereby to expand and perhaps even question (and unravel) the long-standing US-centric soft power conception coined by Joseph Nye and widely used by international relations theorists.   

Peer-Reviewed Publications 

“Rethinking China’s Soft Power: ‘Pragmatic Enticement’ of Confucius Institutes in Ethiopia.” China Quarterly (Forthcoming).

“Is China Competing with the US in Africa?” in The China Questions II: Critical Insights into the US-China Relationship (Harvard University Press: Forthcoming). 

“The Party and the Media: Unpacking the Dynamic Relationship and the Challenges Ahead,” in Jacques deLisle and Guobin Yang, The Party at 100 (Forthcoming: Brookings Institute Press). 

“The State-preneurship Model of Digital Journalism Innovation: Cases from China” (with Kecheng Fang), International Journal of Press and Politics (First Published, March 22, 2021).

“Critical Journalists in China and Russia: Encounters with Ambiguity,” in Karrie Koesel, Valerie Bunce and Jessica Chen (eds.), Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China (Oxford University Press: 2020).

“Digital Media Experiments in China: ‘Revolutionizing’ Persuasion under Xi” (with Kecheng Fang). China Quarterly 239 230 (2019): 671-709.

"Contesting Authoritarianism: Critical Journalists in China and Russia." Comparative Politics 51 (1) (2018): 41-60.

“Authoritarian Participatory Persuasion 2.0: Netizens as Thought Work Collaborators in China” (with Kecheng Fang). Journal of Contemporary China 27 (113) (2018): 763-779. 

"Demistifying 'Little Pink': The creation and evolution of a gendered label for nationalistic activists in China" (with Kecheng Fang). New Media & Society (2018).

"Media Openings and Political Transitions: Glasnost versus Yulun Jiandu." Problems of Post-Communism 64 (2017): 141-151.

“Thought Work Contested: Ideology and Journalism Education in China.” The China Quarterly 230 (2017): 399-419.

“Information Management During Crisis Events: A Case Study of Beijing Floods of 2012.” Journal of Contemporary China 26 (107) (2017): 711-725.

“The Party’s Shadow in China’s Journalism Education.” China Quarterly, 230 (2017): 399-419.

“Propaganda during Crisis Events: A Case Study of Beijing Floods of 2012.” Journal of Contemporary China (2017): 1-15.

“Social Media and the State in China,” in Sandra Gonzalez Bailon and Brooke Foucault-Welles (eds) Communication in the Networked Age (Oxford University Press: forthcoming)

"Why Chinese Print Journalists Embrace the Internet"(with Jonathan Hassid), Journalism 17 (2016).

“Investigative Journalists' Coping Tactics in a Restrictive Media Environment,” in Marina Svensson, Elin Sæther and Zhang Zhi'an (eds), Chinese Investigative Journalists' Dreams (Lexington Books: 2014).

"Migration between China and Russia" (with Harley Balzer) Post-Soviet Affairs 26:1 (2010), pp. 1-37.

“Persuasion 2.0: New Modes of Digital Propaganda in China” (with Kecheng Fang) (under review).

"Looking Back on the Seventieth Anniversary of Japan's Surrender" The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 74, Issue 4, November 2015, pp. 797-820

Public Scholarship Articles, Reports, and Media Essays

“Head Versus Heart? US-China Soft Power Competition Over Values,” Global Asia, volume 16 (4), December 2021.

“China in Ethiopia: Between a savior and an exploiter.” Global Voices. September 24, 2021. Full text available here

“China as a cultural threat in Ethiopia: From food to cultural appropriation.” Global Voices. September 17, 2021; Full text available here

“No, the Chaos in America Is Not a Gift to China and Russia.” The New York Times. January 15, 2021. Full text available here

“Does China’s Propaganda Work?” The New York Times. April 16, 2020; Full text available here.

“The Subtle Muckrakers of the Coronavirus Epidemic.” The New York Times. February 5, 2020; Full text available here.

“Media Politics Under Xi: Shifts and Continuities.” SAIS Review 38:2 (2018): 55-67.

“China’s Lessons for Fighting Fake News.” Foreign Policy. September 26, 2018; Full text available here.

“China’s ‘responsive’ authoritarianism.” Washington Post. November 27, 2018. Full text available here.

“How Chinese Authorities and Individuals Use the Internet.” The Hoover Institute, October 29, 2018; Full text available here.

“#MeToo movement in China: Powerful yet fragile” (with Weile Zhou). Al Jazeera Opinion. October 22, 2018. Full text available here. Full text available here.

“Impact of Google Returning to China Will Reach Beyond Chinese Market.” The Globe Post, August 18, 2018; Full text available here

“The Varied Views of Dissidents in China—A Response to James Palmer.” Los Angeles Review of Books Blog. July 19, 2017. Full text available here

“Liu Xiaobo is Gone, But Resistance Continues.” Dissent. July 18, 2017. Full text available here

“China’s New Media: Pushing Political Boundaries Without Being Political” (with Fang Kecheng), Foreign Affairs, October 12, 2016. Full text available here

“Media Oversight in Non-Democratic Regimes: The Perspectives of Officials and Journalists in China,” PARGC Paper 3 (Philadelphia: PARGC Press, 2015); Full text available here.

“Behind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper” (with Kecheng Fang), Foreign Policy, January 29, 2015. Full text available here.

“Google is returning to China? It never really left” (with Tim Libert), The Guardian, September 21, 2015. Full text available here.
 
“Is this China’s Chernobyl Moment?” OpenDemocracy, August 26, 2015. Full text available here.
 
“Domestic Factors in China's International Relations Discourse: Chinese Debates on the Role of Public Opinion,” The Asan Forum 2:2 (2014).
 
“China in Africa: a New Approach to Media Development?” (with Iginio Gagliardone and Nicole Stremleau) Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University (August, 2010).
 
“Chinese Migration to Russia: Missed Opportunities,” (with Harley Balzer) Eurasian Migration Papers 3 (2009), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Selected Conferences and Invited Presentations

“China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?” Invited Panelist, Weatherhead Forum, Harvard University, February 9, 2022. 

Invited Speaker, Internal Briefing on Chinese Soft Power, the U.S. Department of State (convened by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Public Affairs, and Regional and Security Policy, Camille Dawson), February 4, 2022.

“Chinese Soft Power,” Invited Speaker, Research Seminar Series, School of Media and Communication, Leeds University, February 2, 2022

“Chinese Soft Power,” Invited Speaker, USC U.S.-China Institute, November 18, 2021.

“Chinese Confucius Institutes in Africa and Comparisons to Russia’s Cultural Reach,” Invited Speaker, Comparative Politics Initiative in the Politics Department at the New School for Social Research and the India China Institute, November 2, 2021.

“Exporting Authoritarianism or Igniting Gratitude: China's Trainings of Ethiopian Officials,” Paper presented at the Annual American Political Science Association meeting, the China Mini Conference, September 30, 2021.

“The Fragmented Spectacle of Chinese Soft Power in Africa,” Invited Speaker, University of Pittsburgh, Asia Now Fall Lecture Series, September 27, 2021.

Invited expert to testify at the hearing on foreign censorship, The U.S. International Trade Commission, July 1, 2021. 

“The Chinese Communist Party at 100: How the CCP Tells its Story,” Invited Panelist, The National Committee on US-China Relations, June 24, 2021.

Invited Speaker, Private Seminar on China-Russia Relations, Greater China Policy and Coordination Division at Global Affairs Canada, June 4, 2021.

“Can U.S.-China People-to-People Exchange Stop the Dangerous Slide of the Bilateral Relationship?” Invited Panelist, The Carter Center, May 21, 2021.

Working Group on US-China Cooperation on Health Security,” Invited Participant, Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 20, 2021.

“China’s Soft Power Projection in Africa,” Invited Presenter, The Wilson Center, May 12, 2021.

“Exporting Authoritarianism or Igniting Gratitude: China's Trainings of Ethiopian Officials,” Paper Presenter, ISA Conference, April 9, 2021

“Grasping the China Sentiment in Africa: The Ethnographic Approach,” Paper Presenter, ISA Conference, April 7, 2021

Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit, Invited Speaker, March 26-28, 2021

Japanese Soft Power in East Asia Conference, Invited Discussant, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, March 25, 2021 

“Racializing the Pandemic: Chinese Debates over African Evictions in Guangzhou,” Invited Speaker, Symposium on Narratives on Covid-19 in China and in the World, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, March 19-20, 2021

“Protests in Authoritarian Countries,” Moderator, LA World Affairs Council Webinar, March 10, 2021.

“China’s Role in Africa,” Invited Speaker, Dunwoody Great Decisions Lecture Series, Global Atlanta Center, March 4, 2021.

“The Fragmented Spectacle of Chinese Soft Power in Africa,” Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, November 12, 2020.

“Rethinking China’s Soft Power: The Pragmatic Embrace of Confucius Institutes in Ethiopia,” Paper Presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS), Middlebury College, October 19, 2020. 

“The Party and the Media: Unpacking the Dynamic Relationship and the Challenges Ahead,” Presented at “The Party at 100,” Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China, September 3, 2020. 

“China’s Impact on African Development: Past, Present, and Future,” Invited Speaker, Yale University MacMillan Center China-Africa Conference, Louis, Mauritius, May 13-15, 2020 (Postponed to 2021 due to Covid).

“Global China in Comparative Perspectives” ACLS workshop, Invited Speaker, National Taiwan University, December 18-20, 2019. 

 “Getting China Right: China in the World Conference,” Invited Participant Duke University, December 6-7, 2019.

SSRC Transregional Research Fellows Workshop, Invited Participant and Presenter, Berlin, October 31-November 2nd, 2019.

“China’s Pragmatic Soft Power in Africa: The Case of Confucius Institutes,” Invited Speaker, University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, October 18, 2019. 

Invited Participant and Speaker, “China Red Sea: Senior Study Group” workshop series, September 17, October 3rd, and December 11, 2019.

“Media Politics in China,” Invited Speaker, Paulson Institute, University of Chicago, May 30, 2019.

“Rethinking Soft Power: China’s Cultural Power as an Opportunity,” Presenter, International Communications Association, Washington DC, May 27, 2019.

Respondent, “Rethinking East and West Thirty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” International Communications Association, Washington DC, May 26, 2019.

Invited Participant, “The China Africa Workshop,” US Institute for Peace, Washington DC, May 21, 2019

Invited Participant, “The Future of Major Power Competition,” National Intelligence Council, UT Austin, January 31, 2019

Invited Participant, “China State of the Field Conference,” Stanford University, December 15, 2018.

Invited Speaker and Paper Contributor, “Governance in the Emerging World,” Hoover Institute, October 29, 2018.

Invited Speaker, StratCom, Atlantic Council, October 2, 2018

Invited Participant, State of the Field in Chinese Politics Conference, Stanford University, December 14-15, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Governance In An Emerging New World: China,” Hoover Institution, October 29, 2018.

Invited Speaker, StratCom, Atlantic Council, October 2, 2018.

“Unpacking Authoritarianism: Challenging National Media Biases Through Telling the Stories of Chinese Media Activists,” International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, May 26, 2018

“State-led Intrepreneurship as a Model for Media Entrepreneurship: The Case of Pengpai and Other News Apps in China,” International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, May 28, 2018

“Digital Media Experiments in China: ‘Revolutionizing’ Persuasion under Xi,” International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, May 26, 2018

“The Role of the Media During the Wenchuan Earthquake,” Annual Asian Studies Conference, Washington, DC, April 24, 2018.

“Media Politics in China,” Invited Speaker, Munk School, University of Toronto, March 15, 2018.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, UC Berkeley, February 23, 2018.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, Stanford University, February 21, 2018

“Chinese Media Politics,” Invited Speaker, Political Science Department, CUNY, Albany, February 7, 2018.

“Media and Ideology Under Xi,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 29, 2018.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, SOAS, London, November 22, 2017.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” New Scholarship from the China Centre: Chinese Politics and Power, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, November 21, 2017.

“Media Politics in China and Russia,” Invited Speaker, King’s College, London, November 20, 2017.

"Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism," Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, November 16, 2017.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, China-India Speakers Colloquium, The New School, New York, November 3, 2017

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, National Committee on US-China Relations, New York, November 2, 2017.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, Columbia Journalism School, New York, November 2, 2017.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania, September 25, 2017.

“State-Led Social Media Experiments: The Tensions of Fragmented Authoritarianism” (with Kecheng Fang), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 3, 2017.

“China in Comparative Perspective,” Invited Speaker, Harvard-Yenching Program, Fudan University, June 10-20, 2017.

“Media Politics in China under Xi,” Invited Speaker, Justice and Development in China Colloquium, UC Irvine, April 20, 2017.

"Critical Journalists and the State in China: Grasping Transformations on the Boundary," UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, April 18, 2017.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, Series on Society and Politics of the Asia-Pacific, Northwestern University, April 4, 2017.

“Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism,” Invited Speaker, The Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, April 3, 2017.

“From Economic to Social Media Experiments: The Tensions of Fragmented Authoritarianism,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 17, 2017.

“Critical Journalists in China and Russia,” China and Russia Comparative Politics Workshop (Part II), Notre Dame University, March 9-11, 2017.

“Authoritarian Adaptability: Comparative Trajectories in China and Russia,” Discussant, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February 22, 2017.

“Internet and Non-Violent Resistance under Authoritarian Rule,” Discussant, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February 25, 2017.

“Critical Journalists in China and Russia,” China and Russia Comparative Politics Workshop (Part I), Cornell University, Department of Government, September 16, 2016.

“China Learns from the Soviet Union: Contrasting glasnost with yulun jiandu,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 1-4, 2016.

“Whither Authoritarian Resilience: Challenges Facing the Chinese party-state,” Panel Chair, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 1-4, 2016.

“China and Russia: Communication and Power in Non-Western Societies” (panel organizer and presenter), International Communications Association, Fukuoka, Japan, June 9-13, 2016.

“Beijing Floods and Crisis Communication,” Global Cities/Local Knowledge: Networking the World Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, June 5-7, 2016.

“Media Management in China and Russia: A Preemptive versus a Reactive Approach,” Comparing Media Systems in BRICS Countries: A Review of Conventional Paradigms Conference, Moscow, Russia, April 25-26, 2016.

“China in the World: China-Russia Relations,” National Committee on US-China Relations, New York, April 18, 2016.

“Media Management and Authoritarian Resilience under Xi Jinping,” Asian Studies Association Annual Conference, Seattle, April 1st, 2016.

“Censorship, Self-Censorship and Restraint in Research on IR II,” Committee Panel, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, March 17, 2016.

“Critical Journalists and the State in China and Russia,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, March 19, 2016.

“World War II and the Geopolitics of Memory,” Panel Discussion, Columbia University, November 13, 2015.
 
“Critical Journalists and the State in China: The Case of Guarded Improvisation,” Cornell University, East Asia Program, Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series, October 5, 2015.
 
“Different Modes of Authoritarianism: Critical Journalists in China and Russia,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 6, 2015.
 
“Participatory Persuasion 2.0: China’s Digital Propaganda under Xi” (with Kecheng Fang), China Internet Research Conference, Edmonton, Canada, May 27, 2015.
 
“Limited Political Openings under Authoritarianism: Critical Journalists and the State in China and Russia,” Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 16-19, 2015.
 
“The Limits of Official Transparency Initiatives on Media Investigations in China,” Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 16-19, 2015.
 
“The Party’s Shadow in Journalism Education,” Association for Asian Studies Conference, March 26-29, 2015.
 
“Xi’s Approach to the Media,” presented at a panel on media management in authoritarian regimes, Annenberg School for Communication, February 12, 2015.
 
“The Dynamic Constraints on China’s Critical Journalists: The Bottom-Up Perspective,” Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, November 6, 2014.
 
“Jazz Band Authoritarianism: Critical Journalists and the State in China,” Annenberg School for Communication, October 7, 2014.
 
“The China Factor in the US Think Tank Community: How American Policy Experts Analyze China,” presented at the conference titled “The Chinese Media and Relations with Europe,” Clingendael Institute and Leiden University, Hague, May 16, 2014.
 
“Chinese views on Russia and the Evolving Bilateral Relations,” presented at China-Russia workshop hosted by CNA, China Division, February 12, 2014.
 
“Critical Journalists and the State in China and Russia,” presented at the Royal Netherlands Academy Colloquium, titled “The 'New Authoritarianism': China and Russia in Comparative Perspective,” Amsterdam, November 27, 2013.
 
“The Media's Watchdog Role Following Crises: Media Criticisms and Official Reactions Following the Wenchuan Earthquake,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2013
 
“How Chinese Party-State Controls Critical Reporting: The Bottom-Up Perspective,” Paper presented at 2013 Oxford China Conference, St Antony's College, May 11, 2013
 
“Political Boundaries: Watchdog Media and the State in China and Russia,” Guest Talk at the University of Cambridge, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, May 7, 2013
 
“State-Promoted Accountability Mechanisms in Authoritarian Regimes: Watchdog Media Function in China's Official Discourse,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2012 (posted on SSRL).
 
“The Media's Watchdog Role in China: the State's Promotion and Journalists' Interpretation,” University of Oxford, conference titled: “Chinese Media Legislation and Regulation: Trends, Issues and Questions,” June 15, 2012.
 
“Frenemy: How Chinese Journalists Perceive the Internet” (with Jonathan Hassid), 10th Chinese Internet Research Conference, University of Southern California Annenberg School, May 21, 2012.
 
“Advocates of Change in Authoritarian Regimes: How Chinese Lawyers and Chinese and Russian Journalists Stay out of Trouble,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 3, 2011.
 
“How Journalists Use Social Media in China and in Russia”, Georgetown Alumni Club, London, event titled: “The Impact of Social Media on Civil Engagement,” May 6, 2011.
 
“The Different Media Practices in China: Lack of a Coherent Media Model”, University of Oxford, conference titled: “China's Media Assistance to Africa,” June 10, 2010.
 
“The Interlink between the New Modes of Communication and Critical Reporting in China and in Russia,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, conference titled: “The Etiology and Ecology of Post-Soviet Media,” May 7, 2010.
 
“Media and Politics in China and Russia: Differences and Parallels”, Moscow Carnegie Center, talk given to Carnegie experts and Russian journalists, April 27, 2010.

Teaching

Communication in the Global South, MA/PhD Level seminar

Communication in Global Contexts, PhD Seminar, Georgia State University

Authoritarianism in Global Age, Honors College, Georgia State University

Chinese Media, Politics and Society, Masters Level, Georgia State University

International Communication, Masters Level, Georgia State University
 
Guest Lecturer for the Russian Media and Society course, University of Pennsylvania, April 14, 2015
 
Guest Lecturer for the Chinese Media and Society course, University of Pennsylvania, Mach 26, 2015
 
Guest Lecturer on China's civil society activism, Foreign Service Institute, April 28, 2014
 
Guest Lecturer for the Media and Democratisation in Asia Course, University of Leeds, April 17 and April 24, 2013
 
Guest Lecturer for Russia and China in the Global Economy Course, Georgetown University, September 15, 2012
 
Tutor in Modern Politics of China, Politics, Philosophy and Economics Programme, Oxford University, January 2012-July 2012
 
Tutor, Hertford College, Oxford Programme for Undergraduate Study (OPUS), and School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, January 2010-January 2012

Tutored and designed syllabi for undergraduate and graduate international exchange students on Asian and Chinese politics and society, Chinese modern economic history, and British media and society, and media and democratization.
 

Tutor for the Government of China Course, Masters Programme in Contemporary Chinese Studies,  
Oxford University, January-July, 2010

Other Work Experience

Graduate Editor of Politics in Spires Blog, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, May 2011-January 2012

Edited a new Oxford and Cambridge politics blog (http://www.politicsinspires.org)
Expanded the blog by writing and assigning posts on international issues
 

Researcher for the China-Africa-Europe Media Project, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, March 2010-October 2010

Created the initial China-Africa-Europe Media research network and organized a workshop on China’s media assistance to Africa
 

Co-founder of the “Bridging Realities” Project for the British Council, November, 2009-December 2010

Conducted, edited, and assembled a series of interviews with scholars, journalists, and policy-makers in China, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States on their perceptions of transatlantic relations
 

Reuters Fellow, Reuters TV, Beijing, July 2009-September 2009

Produced news and feature stories on society and politics in Beijing
Conducted extensive interviews in Mandarin
 

Daily Briefs Contributor, Oxford Analytica, Oxford, November 2007-2012

Wrote analytical reports on economic, social, and political events in China and Russia
Specialized in China-Russia relations and comparative political issues
 

Corporate Communications Intern, Google Ltd., London and Moscow, June 2008- September 2008

Helped build up the emerging markets team of corporate communications, with a focus on Russia