Biography
Professor John Delury is a historian of modern China and an expert on US-China relations and Korean Peninsula affairs. He is the author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century, and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Perspective, and Late Imperial China. He contributes regularly to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Global Asia, and 38 North. He is a senior fellow of the Asia Society and Pacific Century Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea. Before joining the Yonsei faculty in 2010, Dr. Delury offered courses at Brown, Columbia, Yale, and Peking University and served as the founding associate director of the Asia Society Center on US-China Relations in New York. He is currently writing a book about US-China relations during the Cold War, focusing on the case of imprisoned CIA officer Jack Downey. He is also working on a series of articles on China-North Korea relations and a co-authored book project with Patrick McEachern on North Korean politics and history.