Ming Xia is Professor of Political Science, teaching at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. He is visiting professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University; guest research fellow at the Center for Elections and People's Congress System at Fudan University and guest professor at Jishou University (Hunan, China).  He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Fudan University, China, and a Ph.D. degree from Temple University, USA.

He once taught at Fudan University (1988-1991) and served as a residential fellow at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University (2003), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004), and the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore (2004). He was the recipient of the Bernard Watson Best Dissertation Award from Temple University (1997) and the recipient of the Dolphin Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement from the College of Staten Island (2003). He has also been selected into "Montclair Who's Who in Collegiate Faculty", "The Marquis Who's Who in America" (63rd edition, 2009 and 2010) and "The Marquis Who's Who in the World" (2009-2010).

Ming Xia is the author of The Dual Developmental State: Development Strategy and Institutional Arrangements for China’s Transition (Ashgate 2000) and The People’s Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governancel (Routledge, 2008). He is the co-editor of two special issues for The Chinese Law and Government on “The Battle Between the Chinese Government and the Falun Gong” (Sept.-Oct. 1999) and “The Falun Gong: Qigong, Code of Ethics, and Religion” (Nov.-Dec. 1999) from M.E. Sharpe, Inc. He is also a contributor to the following books: Cao Peiling, ed., Comparative Government (Fudan University Press 1993, Chinese), Philip Norton and Nizam Ahmed, eds., Parliaments in Asia (Frank Cass 1999), Chung-Si Ahn, ed., New Development in Local Democracy and Democratization in East Asia (Seoul National University Press 2005), Su Shaozhi, et al, Hu Yaobang in the Heart of  People [Renmin xinzhong de Hu Yaobang] (Mirror Books 2006, Chinese)，Siu-Keung Cheung， et al，Marginalization in China:Recasting Minority Politics （Palgrave MacMillan 2009）.

He maintains a monthly column for the electronic journal China in Perspective (Zonglan Zhongguo) and writes for the BBC World Service Chinese Branch. He is also the Associate Editor for the quarterly Chinese journal, The Journal of Modern China Studies (Dangdai Zhongguo Yanjiu).

He was chosen as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals of 2009"      by The Boxun News Agency .

He is one of the producers (with Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neil, Peter Kwong and Michelle Mi) of a HBO documentary movie, "China's Unnatural Disaster, The Tears of Sichuan Province" (2009) on the Wenchuan (Sichuan) earthquake in 2008. Now he is working on a book manuscript, entitled "China at the Epicenter: Calamity, Protest, and Crisis Management" as well as a project on the organized crime and criminal underworld in China.

Contact:

Dr. Ming Xia

Dept. of Pol. Sci., Econ., and Philosophy

The City University of New York

The College of Staten Island

Staten Island, NY 10314

U.S.A.

Phone: +1 (718) 982-3197

Fax: +1 (718) 982-2888

Email: Ming.Xia@csi.cuny.edu