Fei-Ling Wang
Professor
Member Of:
- School of International Affairs
- Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy
Email Address:
fw@gatech.eduFax Number:
404-894-1900Office Location:
Habersham 214Related Links:
Overview
Dr. Fei-Ling Wang received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1993, and was promoted to associate professor in 1999 and professor in 2005. His research focus is comparative and international political economy, and East Asia and China studies. He has published seven books (two co-edited) in two languages. In addition to numerous book chapters and reports, he has published dozens of articles in journals and newspapers such as The China Quarterly, Christian Science Monitor, Harvard International Review, International Herald Tribune, Journal of Contemporary China, The New York Times, Pacific Affairs and The Washington Quarterly as well as journals in China, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.
Wang taught at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) before came to Georgia Tech and at the U.S. Air Force Academy as a visiting Miverva Chair. He has had numerous grants from U.S. and foreign sources and frequently appears in U.S. and international news media such as Al Jazeera, AP, BBC, Businessweek, CNN, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, The New York Times, Radio China, VOA, and Xinhua.
Wang is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has held adjunct or visiting positions in Renmin University and Anhui Normal University in China, Sciences Po in France, European University Institute in Italy, University of Tokyo in Japan, Yonsei University in Korea, University of Macau, National University of Singapore, National Sun Yet-san University and National University of Taiwan.
Interests
Research Fields:
- Regional Security Challenges
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- United States
Issues:
- International Development
- Regional Development
- Weapons and Security
- Foreign Policy
- Globalization and Localization
- Governance
- History more generally
- International Trade and Investment
- Modernity
- Politics
- Strategy
Courses
- INTA-1050: The World Today
- INTA-1110: Intro to Int'l Relations
- INTA-1200: American Government
- INTA-3130: Foreign Policy of China
- INTA-3230: Gov't & Politics-China
- INTA-3301: Int'l Political Econ
- INTA-3330: Political Economy-China
- INTA-4050: Int'l Affair&Tech Policy
- INTA-4331: Chinese Politics
- INTA-4740: Sem-Political Economy
- INTA-6302: Intl Political Economy
- INTA-6331: Chinese Political Econ
- INTA-6753: Comp Science&Tech Policy
Selected Publications
Books
- The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power
Date: September 2017
- 走进西点军校 Zoujin xidian junxiao, (U.S. Military Academy at West Point)
Date: 2006
- China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy
Date: 2005
- Organization through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou (Household Registration)System
Date: 2005
- In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World
Date: 1999
- From Family to Market: Labor Allocation in Contemporary China
Date: March 1998
- Institutions and Institutional Change in China: Premodernity and Modernization,
Date: 1998
Journal Articles
- Zhongguo de hukou zhidu jiqi biange” (中国的户口制度及其变革 China’s Hukou system and its evolution
In: Zhongguo zhili pinglun (中国治理评论 China Governance Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2014
- China in Africa: presence, perceptions and prospects
In: Journal of Contemporary China [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2014
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.This article reports and analyzes China's presence in Africa with an emphasis on how that has been perceived by the Africans. Based on the findings from surveys and field research conducted in eight sub-Saharan African countries and interviews with scholars and practitioners from other African countries as well as Chinese and Americans in Africa, we outline the diverse, complicated and evolving African perceptions about China's explosive presence in general and the booming Chinese business activities in particular that now range from love to suspicion. Our findings about how China is perceived in Africa suggest that Beijing has acquired substantial goodwill in Africa yet is developing deep issues and facing uncertain challenges and growing obstacles. - “China’s Grand Experiments”
In: The Diplomat
Date: December 2011
- The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity
In: JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Date: November 2010
- “China’s Anti-Encirclement Struggle: the U.S., India, and Japan”
In: Asian Security [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2010
- “Institutions, Modernity, and Modernization”
In: ProtoSociology: an international journal of interdisciplinary research [Peer Reviewed]
Date: November 2009
- “Gei women xuanpaio ba” (Give us the ballot)
Date: January 2009
- Zhongguo de hukou zhidu zhuanxing” (中國戶口制度的轉型 China’s Hukou system in reform)
In: Ershiyi shiji [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2008
- After the Beijing Games: What We Learned?
In: International Herald Tribune
Date: September 2008
- “Taiwan: Catalyst for Change in China”
In: Christian Science Monitor
Date: September 2006
- Heading Off Fears of a Resurgent China
In: International Herald Tribune
Date: April 2006
- East Asia: An Ideal Community
In: International Herald Tribune
Date: November 2005
- Preservation, prosperity and power: What motivates China's foreign policy?
In: Journal of Contemporary China [Peer Reviewed]
Date: November 2005
This article describes the motives behind the making of the current status-quo and risk-averse Chinese foreign policy. It identifies a three-P incentive structure that is based on the political preservation of the CCP regime, China's economic prosperity, and Beijing's pursuit of power and prestige. These three motives are stable and overlapping, featuring Taiwan and the relationship with the United States as the key issues. Beijing is expected to be motivated by these peculiar motives over the next two decades; but new internal and external developments may greatly change these motives and generate new impetus for China's foreign policy. Although the official line in Beijing is still the mild 'peaceful development', after a fling with the more majestic idea of 'peaceful rise', the rise of nationalist emotions and demands in the PRC continues. © 2005 Taylor & Francis. - Make up with Japan
In: International Herald Tribune
Date: August 2005
- Lots of wealth, lots of people, lots of flaws: China rising
In: International Herald Tribune
Date: July 2005
- “Chinese Policy towards the Korean Peninsula: Stability First, Possible Trade-offs
Later”
In: Pacific Focus
Date: April 2005
- Reformed migration control and new targeted people: China's Hukou system in the 2000s
In: China Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2004
This article outlines the latest reforms of China's hukou system in 1997-2002 and reports the system's functional changes and continuities. Today's hukou system still performs two leading functions: the widely discussed internal migration control with reformed mechanisms and the previously scarcely examined socio-political management of the targeted people (zhongdian renkou). An adapted and adjusted hukou system is expected to continue as a key component of China's institutional framework, playing a crucial role to determine socio-political stability, facilitate a rapid but uneven economic growth, and shape socio-economic stratification and spatial inequality in the PRC. © The China Quarterly, 2004. - “中国长治久安与民主化的最佳途径：党内民主与党内派别的合法化” (The best way to achieve long and peaceful governance and democratization in China: inner-party democracy and the legitimization of the factions inside the party)
In: China Elections and Governance， Beijing
Date: June 2003
- "中华悲剧：海峡两岸即将到来的民族主义大冲突 " (Grand Chinese tragedy: the
coming clash of nationalisms in the Taiwan Strait)
In: Journal of Strategy and Management
Date: August 2000
- 從主權之爭道治權協調：解決台灣問題的一個新思維" (From disputes over sovereignty to coordination of administration: a new thinking on the solution of the Taiwan issue
In: Asian Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 1999
- 国际政治秩序与国际关系理论：关于国际无政府状态的作用的一个思辨” (International political order and theories of international relations: a conceptual discourse on the functions of international political anarchy
In: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Jikan (Chinese Social Sciences Quarterly) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 1997
- “Minshi fenli lun--jiejui taihai chongtu de muohu luoji” (To divorce the name from the fact: a fuzzy logic for the solution of the Taiwan conflict)
In: Ming Po Yuekang (MingPo Monthly), Hong Kong
Date: April 1996
- “冷战以后中国的东亚安全政策简析” (An analysis on Chinese security policy in the post-Cold War East Asia)
In: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Jikan (Chinese Social Sciences Quarterly) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 1995
- "China: An Arduous Journey to Democracy"
In: Daily Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia
Date: June 1989
- "To Incorporate China--A New China Policy for a New Era"
In: The Washington Quarterly
- Beyond National Innovation Systems: Incentives, Politics, Culture, and China's Innovation Performance
In: Journal of Contemporary China [Peer Reviewed]
- China grapples with strategic implications of TPP
In: Asian Review
- Joining the Major Powers for the Status Quo: China's Views and Policy on Korean
Reunification"
In: Pacific Affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific [Peer Reviewed]
- “Brewing Tensions while Maintaining Stabilities: The Dual Role of the Hukou System in
Contemporary China”
In: Asian Perspective [Peer Reviewed]
- “Four Cheers for International Political Anarchy”
In: Journal of Chinese Political Science [Peer Reviewed]
Chapters
- China in Africa: presence, perceptions, and prospects,
Date: 2015
- From Tianxia to Westphalia: The Evolving Chinese Conception of Sovereignty and World Order
Date: 2015
- “Resisting, Reducing, and Replacing: China’s Strategy and Policy towards the United States”
Date: December 2012
- “Reformed Migration Control and New Targeted People”
Date: 2011
- "Stratification and Institutional Exclusion in China and India: Administrative
Identification versus Social Barriers”
Date: 2007
- "Introduction: The Making of China’s Foreign Policy"
Date: 2005
- Beijing's Incentive Structure: The Pursuit of Preservation, Prosperity, and Power,
Date: 2005
- Special Issues Collecting China's SARS-Related Document
Date: 2003
- “China’s Strategic Intentions and Demands,” a
Date: 2000
- "Introduction: Toward an Understanding of China's Worldview"
Date: February 1999
- "Self Image and Strategic Intentions: National Confidence and Political Insecurity"
Date: February 1999
Other Publications
- Tacit Acceptance and Watchful Eyes: Beijing's Views about the US-ROK Alliance
Date: 1997