China Institute
Dr Olivia Cheung
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Key information
- Roles
- China Institute Research Fellow, SOAS China Institute
- Department
- China Institute
- Qualifications
- MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Email address
- oc9@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Olivia Cheung (DPhil, Oxon) is Research Fellow of the China Institute at SOAS University of London.
She is the author of Factional-ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). Her co-authored book (with Steve Tsang), The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, will be published by Oxford University Press.
Her articles have appeared in journals including the China Quarterly, Asan Forum, Third World Quarterly, etc. She previously taught at the University of Warwick, where she was Course Director for the MA in International Politics and East Asia. She obtained her DPhil at Oxford where she was a Swire Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar.
Research interests
- Contemporary Chinese history, domestic politics, and foreign policy.
- Current research project: The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
