China Institute
Dr Olivia Cheung
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Key information
- Roles
- China Institute Research Fellow, SOAS China Institute
- Department
- China Institute
- Qualifications
- MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Email address
- oc9@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Olivia Cheung is Research Fellow of the China Institute at SOAS University of London.
She is the author of Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? (Amsterdam University Press, 2023; e-book gold open access). The book examines elite debates and policy changes on socialist transformation and political reform in China from the 1960s through the end of Xi Jinping’s second term in 2022. Her latest major publication is a book co-authored with Steve Tsang, The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (Oxford University Press, 2024), which offers a contextualized interpretation of Xi’s major doctrines and concepts on Chinese politics, economy, society, and foreign policy.
Her current research project is on China’s Global Strategy. Prior to SOAS, she taught Chinese politics and East Asia’s political economy, development, and international relations at the University of Warwick, where she was Course Director for the MA in International Politics and East Asia. She obtained her DPhil at Oxford where she was a Swire Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar.
Key publications
SCI Blog posts
Research interests
- Contemporary Chinese history, domestic politics, and foreign policy.
- Current research project: The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
