刘为

刘为
美国长岛大学中国中心教授(前主任)、意大利都灵大学政治学院客座教授,曾任浙江大学国际关系所所长、英国爱丁堡大学政治学系研究员。

Professor Liu Wei began serving the China Center in 1996 as a regular guest speaker, and in 1997 he became a formal staff member and faculty advisor. Since then he has taught an area studies course on contemporary Chinese history and politics, and several seminars on Chinese foreign relations. Currently, Liu Wei serves as a senior teacher as well as faculty advisor and program coordinator for the students interested in Peace and Reconciliation in China. Professor Liu served in the Red Army during the Cultural Revolution, ending his military career as a staff sergeant in 1976. After working as the private secretary to the Provincial Minister, he entered university on an ex-serviceman's pension in 1978, where he majored in Chinese history and minored in French. After seven years of graduate study and extensive research on 18th-century English political history at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Liu completed his Ph.D. in History from Nanjing University in 1989. Soon thereafter, he began teaching as a lecturer of political science at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at Zhejiang University. He then returned to the University of Edinburgh and completed his postdoctoral research on the history of late 18th-century Sino-British relations in 1992. He then assumed the position of associate professor the following year at Zhejiang University, where he continues to teach world political history in the Department of Global Studies. Professor Liu also continues to supplement his academic career with an intriguing vocation in television. For seven years beginning in 1994, he worked for China Central Television as a part-time host of a literary review program, and he currently hosts a program about local popular culture in Hangzhou on Zhejiang Provincial Television.

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