Yu Keping is the Chair of Politics, Professor and Dean at the School of Government, Peking University, Beijing, former Deputy President of the Central Compilation & Translation Bureau, and founding Director of PKU Research Centre for Chinese Politics. His major fields include political philosophy, comparative politics, globalization, civil society, governance and politics in China. Among his many books are Essays on Modernizing State Governance (Beijing, 2015), Globalization and Changes in China’s Governance (2013), Governance and Rule of Law in China(ed., 2012) and Democracy is a Good Thing (2010).
As a leading intellectual and advocate of democratic governance in China, Professor Yu has a number of honorary titles at many universities and was selected as one of the “30 most influential figures in the past 30 years since the reform in China” in 2008 and ranked in the “2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers” by Foreign Policy in the US. Recently, Professor Yu was selected as the “Most Influential Scholar of 2015” by the Chinese News Weekly.
Crossing the river by feeling the stones: democracy's advance in China
Apr 15, 2016 01:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Renowned as one of Chinas leading political thinkers, Yu Keping from Peking University featured in this years Encounter hosted by the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) at the University of Sydney on April 12. His article is a...
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