Chih-yu Shih (Chinese: 石之瑜; pinyin: Shí Zhīyú; born 8 August 1958) is a political science professor in Taiwan and National Chair Professor of the Republic of China. He has proposed a balance of relationship theory that both universally applies to bilateral relationships and complements the existing balance of power theory.^[1]

Life

Chih-yu Shih graduated from National Taiwan University. He earned an M.P.P. at Harvard University and Ph.D. at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (the University of Denver).

He was a visiting scholar at Stanford, Duke, Princeton, Durham, Chuo University and University of Tübingen.^[2] His present occupation is:

• Life-time distinguished professor at National Taiwan University
• Adjunct professor at National Sun Yat-sen University^[3]

List of works (books in English)

• Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022).
• Eros of International Relations: Self-feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022).
• Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self (Co-ed.) (Singapore: World Scientific, 2020)
• China Studies in the Philippines: Intellectual Paths and the Formation of a Field (Co-ed.) (London: Routledge, 2019).
• China Studies in South and Southeast Asia: Between Pro-China and Objectivism (Co-ed.) (Singapore: World Scientific, 2019).
• China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships (London: Routledge, 2019).
• From Sinology to Post-Chineseness: Intellectual Histories of China, Chinese People and Chinese Civilization (ed.) (Beijing: Chinese Social Science Press, 2017).
• Producing China in Southeast Asia – Knowledge, Identity and Migrant Chineseness (ed.) (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2017).
• Post-Communist Sinology in Transformation: Views from the Czech Republic, *Mongolia, Poland, and Russia (ed.) (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press of Hong Kong, 2016).
• Understanding 21st Century China in Buddhist Asia: History, Modernity and International Relations (Co-ed.) (Bangkok: Asia Research Center, Chulalongkorn University, 2016).
• Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered: The Pre-modern Politics of Gongsun Long (New York: Palgrave, 2015).
• Re-producing Chineseness in Southeast Asia: Scholarship and Identity in Comparative Perspectives (ed.) (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2015).*Harmonious Intervention: China’s Quest for Relational Security (Surrey: Ashgate, 2014).
• Multicultural China: A Statistical Year Book (Co-ed.) (New York: Springer, 2014).
• Borderland Politics in Northern India (Co-ed.) (Exon: Routledge, 2014).
• Sinicizing International Relations: Self, Civilization and Intellectual Politics of Subaltern East Asia (London: Palgrave, 2013).
• Tibetan Studies in Comparaitive Perspectives (co-ed.) (London: Routledge, 2012).
• On India By China: From Civilization to Nation State (co-ed.) (New York: Cambria, 2012).
• Civilization, Modernity, and Nation in East Asia (London: Routledge: 2012).
• 《はじめに──戦後日本の中国研究》（合編）（東京：平凡社，2010）.
• Democracy Made in Taiwan: The “Success State” as a Political Theory (Lanham: Lexington Press, 2007).
• Autonomy, Ethnicy and Poverty in Southwestern China: The State Turned Upside Down (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007).
• Navigating Sovereignty: World Politics Lost in China (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003).
• Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State (New York: Routledge, 2002).
• Reform, Identity, and Chinese Foreign Policy (Taipei: Vanguard Foundation, 2000).
• Collective Democracy: The Political and Legal Reform in China (Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, together with Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
• State and Society in China’s Political Economy: The Cultural Dynamics of China's Socialist Reform (Boulder: Lynne Rienner 1995).
• Symbolic War: The Chinese Use of Force, 1840-1980, (co-author) (Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 1993).
• China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1993).
• Contending Dramas: A Cognitive Approach to International Organizations (co-editor) (New York: Praeger, 1992).
• The Spirit of Chinese Foreign Policy: A Psycho-cultural View (London: Macmillan 1990).

Source^[4]

Honours and awards

• Excellence Research Award, National Science Council 1995–99, 2004–07
• Fulbright Scholar 1997
• Ministry of Education Academic Award 2000
• National Chair Professor Life time, Ministry of Education 2001–2004, 2013–
• University Chair Professor 2007-2019

and many others.