Zhang Weiwei

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang

For the Chinese-Swedish author of the same name, see Vivibear

Zhang Weiwei (simplified Chinese: 张维为; traditional Chinese: 張維為; pinyin: Zhāng Wéiwèi) is a Chinese professor of international relations at Fudan University, and a senior research fellow at the Chunqiu Institute. He was a senior fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and a visiting professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations.

Zhang has written extensively in English and Chinese on China's economic and political reform, China's development model and comparative politics. According to Zhang, he worked as an English interpreter for some Chinese leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, in the mid-1980s.

Works

• Ideology and Economic Reform under Deng Xiaoping (Kegan Paul, London, 1996)
• Transforming China: Economic Reform and its Political Implications (Macmillan, London and St. Martins, New York, 2000)
• Reshaping Cross-Strait Relations: Ideas and Reflections (CAS, Geneva, 2006)
• Zhongguo Chudong Quanqiu (China Touches the World) (Xinhua Press, Beijing, 2008)
• The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State (World Century Publishing Corporation, 2012)

External links

• Meritocracy Versus Democracy, Zhang Weiwei, NYT
• Is democracy wrong for China?. Head to Head, Al Jazeera English, December 2014 (interview, video, 47 mins)
• Chinese thinker Zhang Weiwei. BBC, 2014-1-22 (interview, audio, 14 mins)