Feng Zhang
Visiting Scholar
Feng Zhang is Professor of International Relations at the South China University of Technology. His research falls into three areas: Chinese grand strategy and foreign policy, Chinese international relations theory, and international relations in East Asia. He is the author of Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History (Stanford, 2015) and is completing a new book on China’s policy toward Afghanistan entitled A Neighbor of Neighbors: China’s Policy toward Afghanistan, 1949-2023. He coauthored two books with Richard Ned Lebow: Taming Sino-American Rivalry (Oxford, 2020) and Justice and International Order: East and West (Oxford, 2022). Zhang previously held positions at Tsinghua University, Murdoch University, and the Australian National University. He holds an MSc in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
At the Paul Tsai China Center, he is working on a new book project on US-China competition and accommodation in Asia. A follow-on work to Taming Sino-American Rivalry and Justice and International Order, it will synthesize classical Chinese thought and modern international relations theory to develop novel policy insights into key issues affecting US-China relations.