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The Center serves to connect all 10 campuses of the University of California system with Fudan University in Shanghai and is designed to bring together leading research scholars from both universities for conferences and lectures, and facilitate cooperative research. 

  • Richard Madsen, Director

    Richard Madsen, Director

    Richard Madsen is director of the Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UC San Diego. He has been called “one of the modern-day founders of the study of Chinese religion.” He recently edited a volume entitled “The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below,” examining the meaning and practice of the ongoing campaign to “Sinicize'' religious organizations in China. Madsen is the author of 15 books on Chinese culture, U.S. society and U.S.-China relations.
  • Hao Wang, Associate Director

    Hao Wang, Associate Director

    Hao WANG is an Associate Professor at the Center for American Studies, Fudan University in Shanghai, where he has been teaching since obtaining his Ph.D. from Renmin University of China in 2016. Prior to his Ph.D., he was a visiting scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, from 2014 to 2015. His research interests include American politics and American foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations, and international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of Social Coalition and the Logic of Evolution of U.S. Grand Strategy since World War II (Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2016) and From Cycle to Identity: Paradigm Innovation and Agenda Resetting in American Party Politics (Fudan University Press, 2024). His scholarly articles have appeared in top Chinese international relations journals such as World Economics and Politics, Journal of Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, and Contemporary International Relations.
  • Lei Guang, Managing Associate Director

    Lei Guang, Managing Associate Director

    Lei Guang is the So Family Executive Director of the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and is professor emeritus of political science at San Diego State University.
  • Harris Doshay, Assistant Director

    Harris Doshay, Assistant Director

    Harris Doshay serves as assistant director of research and writing in the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Doshay earned his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. His dissertation, based on a year of ethnographic field work in Chinese churches, focused on China's official Protestant Church and the ways in which individual believers experienced cooptation. Work stemming from this project has been published in Comparative Politics. He also taught writing and research skills in Princeton’s writing program.