Jonathan Sullivan (Chinese: 蘇立文) is a British political scientist and

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who researches

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s in China, Taiwan and other

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contexts, China's Internet and cyber-nationalism, studies of the

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s, and China's politics of

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and

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. Sullivan is Head of China Programmes at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and

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in Politics and

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at the

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. Sullivan is an editor of ''The Asia Dialogue'', the online journal of the ARI. He is a co-founder of the ''China Soccer Observatory'' (CSO) with

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and a member of ''

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'' Executive Committee.

Early life and education

Sullivan comes from

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, England. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Modern Chinese Studies and

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in Asia Pacific Studies, all at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

, Sullivan went to the University of Nottingham for learning

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, where he got another master's degree (2005–2006) and completed his PhD (2006–2010).

Academic career

From 2009 to 2011, Sullivan was a

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Fellow for China, Globalization and Civil Society. In 2012, he moved over to the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham to work with

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, who was Head of the School, as Director of Research. In 2014, Sullivan went back to the School of Politics as Director of the

China Policy Institute The China Policy Institute (CPI) is a research centre in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, that is focused on various aspects of contemporary China. It has a remit to disseminate policy relevant insig ...

(CPI). He was the Director of the CPI and Editor-in-Chief of the institute's online journal ''China Policy Institute: Analysis'' until 2018, when the CPI merged into ARI. Sullivan was a

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media fellow who facilitated a period of work at and writing for the

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Works

Books

* ''A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations,'' with Chun-Yi Lee (

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, 2018) * ''China's Football Dream'' (Asia Research Institute e-Book, 2018)

Selected articles

*Sullivan, J., & Wang, W. (2022). China's "Wolf Warrior Diplomacy": The Interaction of Formal Diplomacy and Cyber-Nationalism. ''

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.'' *Sullivan, J., Jeu, S. & Wang, W. (2021). Rising Cyber China. '' Turkish Policy Quarterly''. *Sullivan, J., & Lee, D. S. (2018). Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan. '' International Journal of Taiwan Studies'', ''1''(2), 273–300. *Sullivan, J. (2014). China's Weibo: Is Faster Different?. ''

New Media & Society ''New Media & Society'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the fields of sociology, media, and communication. The journal's editor-in-chief is Steve Jones (University of Illinois at Chicago). It has been in publication since 1999 and is p ...

'', ''16''(1), 24–37.

Selected op-eds

Taiwan and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
''China Policy Institute: Analysis.'' 27 January 2018.
Western universities are not prepared for engaging with China
''

Nikkei Asian Review ''Nikkei Asia'', known as ''Nikkei Asian Review'' between 2013 and 2020, is a major Japan-based English-language weekly news magazine focused on the Asian continent, although it also covers broader international developments. It is headquartere ...

''. 27 December 2017. *Trump, Taiwan, and the ‘One China’ Policy. ''

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''. 28 February 2017.
How the Global Media Frames Taiwan and Gets it Wrong
''Global Taiwan Institute'' 1(13). 14 December 2016.
Chinese Celebrity and the Soft Power Machine
''China Film Insider''. 3 April 2016. *"Asia for Asians": Would it mean "Asia for Chinese?" ''India-China Chronicle''. May–June 2015. *The Taiwan-China Meeting. ''The Diplomat''. 11 February 2014.

References

External links

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Jonathan Sullivan's articles
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South China Morning Post The ''South China Morning Post'' (''SCMP''), with its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Morning Post'', is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remaine ...

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The National Interest ''The National Interest'' (''TNI'') is an American bimonthly international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, ...

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