China Expert at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus
Available to Discuss Recent Earthquake in Southwest China

Brooklyn, N.Y. – China expert Yafeng Xia, an associate professor of East Asian and diplomatic history at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, is available to discuss changes in how the Chinese government and the world are responding to major natural disasters such as this week’s earthquake in southwest China.

A noted scholar on Chinese foreign relations and U.S.-China relations, Dr. Xia is former second secretary of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D. C.

Dr. Xia is the author of "Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-72" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006) and also has published in such publications as Diplomacy & Statecraft, Journal of Cold War Studies, the Chinese Historical Review, International History Review and Journal of East Asian-American Relations, among others. He is currently working on a monograph on the history of the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tentatively titled, "Burying the ‘Diplomacy of Humiliation': New China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1956."

To reach Dr. Xia, please call the Office of Public Relations at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus at (718) 488-1015 or (917) 673-5423

Posted: May 14, 2008

Media contact: (718) 488-1015