ZHANG Weiwei is a distinguished professor of international relations and Dean of the China Institute, Fudan University, and he is concurrently Director of the Institute of China Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, a board member of China’s National Think Tanks Council and a senior fellow at the Chunqiu Institute. He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from Geneva University.A former visiting fellow at Oxford, he was professor of international relations at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations and senior research fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Geneva University. He had worked as a senior English interpreter for Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders in the mid-1980s. He has travelled to over 100 countries.He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning China Trilogy(published by the Shanghai People’s Press) of Zhongguo Chudong (the China Ripple), Zhongguo Zhenhan (the China Wave) and Zhongguo Chaoyue (the China Horizon, and the English editions of the latter two were published by World Century, New Jersey, in 2012 and 2016 respectively).His other works include Ideology and Economic Reform under Deng Xiaoping (Kegan Paul, London, 1996), Transforming China: Economic Reform and its Political Implications (Macmillan, London and St. Martins, New York, 2000), Reshaping Cross-Strait Relations: Ideas and Reflections (CAS, Geneva, 2006).