Dr Olivia Cheung

Overview

SOAS China Institute

Research Fellow, SOAS China Institute

Name:: Dr Olivia Cheung
Email address:: oc9@soas.ac.uk
Address:: SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:: 4424

Biography

Dr Olivia Cheung (DPhil, Oxon) is Research Fellow at the SOAS China Institute, SOAS University of London. She is working with Professor Steve Tsang on the project ‘The Political Thought of Xi Jinping’. She is also writing a single-authored book on factionalism and ideology in Chinese politics, from Mao Zedong through to Xi Jinping. Her works have appeared in the China Quarterly, Asan Forum, Third World Quarterly, South African Journal of International Affairs, St Antony’s International Review, East Asia Forum, the edited book Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations (Samantha Cooke ed.), etc. Prior to joining SOAS, she was Teaching Fellow in East Asian Politics and International Relations and Course Director for MA in International Politics and East Asia at the University of Warwick. She earned her D.Phil. in Politics as a Swire Scholar at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where she also obtained her M.Phil. in Politics as a Rhodes Scholar. Previously, she obtained her Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government & Laws) from the University of Hong Kong as a HKU Scholar.

Teaching

N/A

Research

Contemporary Chinese history, domestic politics, and foreign policy.

Current research project: The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

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Available for

TV
Radio
Press

Regional Expertise

China and Inner Asia

Country Expertise

China
Hong Kong
Macau
Taiwan

Languages

Publications

Articles

Cheung, Olivia (2022) 'Factional model-making in China: Party elites’ open political contention in the policy process'. The China Quarterly. [Forthcoming]

Tsang, Steve and Cheung, Olivia (2022) 'Has Xi Jinping made China’s political system more resilient and enduring?'. Third World Quarterly, (43) 1, pp 225-243.

Tsang, Steve and Cheung, Olivia (2021) 'Uninterrupted Rise: China’s Global Strategy According to Xi Jinping Thought'. The Asan Forum, (9) 2.

Book Chapters

Cheung, Olivia (2022) 'An East Asian Theory of Democracy'. In: Cooke, Samantha, (ed.), Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 103-132.

Conference Items

Cheung, Olivia (2019) 'China’s Grand Strategy: Coordinating the Belt and Road Initiative' In: “The Belt and Road Initiative @Five”, and “BRI and the Silk Road” Comprehensive Capacity-Building in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Central Asia (COMPASS) Workshop Proceedings, June 2019, University of Kent and University of Cambridge, pp. 8-10., 13 March 2019, University of Kent.