Wang Jisi

Wang Jisi (; born November 1948) is a Chinese academic and international relations scholar. He currently serves as the president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. He served as the Dean of Peking University's School of International Studies from 2005 to 2013 and has held the position of Peking University Boya Chair Professor since 2017.

Early life Wang was born in Canton (now Guangzhou), in November 1948, but has spent most of his life in Beijing. He graduated from the Affiliated High School of Peking University in 1968.

After finishing high school at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Wang was sent to the countryside to serve as a sent-down youth worker in Inner Mongolia. There, he spent seven years laboring in the East Ujimqin Banner. In 1975 he was reassigned to Henan, recruited as a laborer at the Sanmenxia Dam hydroelectric plant.

In 1978, two years after the end of the Cultural Revolution, Wang was admitted into the International Politics program at Peking University, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. at what was then known as Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, within Nanyang Technological University.

Wang was Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University from 2005 to 2013. He was the founding president of the university's Institute of International and Strategic Studies. He was concurrently director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party from 2001 to 2009.

From 2008 to 2016, he was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

Wang was on the International Crisis Group Board of Trustees. Wang has served on the board of directors of the nonprofit Teach For China.

Wang has published numerous English articles in the fields of U.S. foreign policy, China's foreign relations, Asian security, and global politics. Writing in 2024, researcher Mark Leonard of the European Council on Foreign Relations describes Wang as "one of the most renowned international relations scholars in China and an expert on U.S.-China relations."

Research and policy positions In the early 2000s, Wang coined the term "hot peace" to describe the nature of the China-United States relationship.

Publications

Reports

Breaking the Ice: The Role of Scholarly Exchange in Stabilizing U.S.-China Relations, Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 7, 2023 (co-authored with Scott Kennedy)

Articles

Does China Prefer Harris or Trump? Foreign Affairs, August 1, 2024 (co-authored with Hu Ran and Zhao Jianwei) America and China Are Not Yet in a Cold War, Foreign Affairs, November 23, 2023 America and China Need to Talk, Foreign Affairs, April 6, 2023 (co-authored with Scott Kennedy) The Plot Against China, Foreign Affairs, June 22, 2021