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Peter Hays Gries is the Lee Kai Hung Chair and founding Director of the Manchester China Institute at the University of Manchester, where he is also Professor of Chinese politics.

Peter Gries

Biography

Peter Gries was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong, Washington, DC, Tokyo, and Beijing. He later earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Asian Studies at Middlebury and Michigan, and a PhD in politics from UC Berkeley. After a two-year postdoc at Ohio State, he was assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder for five years. He then spent eleven years at the University of Oklahoma, where he founded and directed the Institute for US-China Issues and its two signature programs (the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, and the US-China Diplomatic Dialogue.)[1]

Gries joined the University of Manchester as Professor of Chinese Politics in August 2017. After an autumn of fundraising and a £5M donation endowing a new China Institute, in December 2017 he became the Lee Kai Hung Chair and founding Director of the Manchester China Institute, which was formally launched in May 2018. Its two signature programs are the UK-China International Photography Competition, and the UK-China Diplomatic Dialogue.[2]

Books

Articles (selected)

References

  1. ^ "Peter Gries". University of Manchester.
  2. ^ "Manchester launches UK-China Diplomatic Dialogue".
  3. ^ Lim, Louisa (3 May 2005). "China walks nationalist tightrope". BBC. Retrieved 26 August 2010.