American Studies Center

Founded in 1979 at the initiative of the Chinese-American scholar Professor Deng Yanchang, the American Studies Center (ASC) of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) is one of the oldest and most respected American-studies institutes in China. Its mission is threefold: 1) to cultivate outstanding foreign language talents with an in-depth understanding of the United States; 2) to promote American studies teaching and research in China; 3) to foster and facilitate dialogues and cooperation between China and the United States. Under the successive leadership of Professors Deng Yanchang, Zhu Yongtao, Mei Renyi, and Fu Meirong, the Center has grown into a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary research in China.

The greatest strength of the ASC lies in its faculty. Currently, there are 18 full-time faculty members, including four professors, five associate professors, and nine assistant professors, in addition to five part-time affiliates. All ASC faculty members hold doctoral degrees and have experience studying or conducting research in the United States, and 11 are Fulbright alumni. Additionally, more than 30 American Fulbright scholars and foreign professors have taught at the center. Faculty expertise spans American politics, diplomacy, economics, culture, media, law, religion, and overseas Sinology.

The ASC has been offering a three-year M.A. program since 1979 and a Ph.D. program (3-5 years) since 1996. At the ASC, all courses, seminars, and theses are conducted in English. For forty years our classrooms have followed the American-style seminar model. The M.A. curriculum is organized into three thematic tracks— “Society & Culture,” “Politics & Diplomacy,” and “Economics & Trade”—and currently comprises 22 specialized courses, most of them electives, covering international relations, history, political science, economics, sociology, communication, and cultural studies.

Members

Name	Title	Fields of Research
Sun Youzhong	Professor	American Media, American Intellectual History, Cross-Cultural Communications
Fu Meirong	Professor	American Human Resources Systems, History of U.S.-China Education Exchanges, American Economic History
Li Liwen	Professor	American Trade Policies, American Constitutional Studies, Cross-Cultural Communications
Li Qikeng	Professor	American Politics and Diplomacy, U.S.-China Relations, Public Diplomacy and People-to-People Exchange
Wang Zhenping	Associate Professor	American Culture, Film Studies, Existential Works in the U.S.
Chen Juebin	Associate Professor	History of American Foreign Policies, U.S.-China Relations, American Non-Traditional Security Issues
Liu Yang	Associate Professor	Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Transnational Migration, Identity Studies, and Grounded Theory
Qi Hao	Associate Professor	American Diplomacy, U.S.-China Relations, America’s Asia-Pacific Strategies
Zhang Chunbo	Associate Professor	Cross-Cultural Communications, New Media Studies
Yi Rui	Associate Professor	American Intellectual History, Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Cultures
Li Jinzhao	Associate Professor	American Ethnicity, Gender Studies, Stratification Studies, Transnational Migration Studies
Jia Ning	Associate Professor	American Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography
Luo Ming	Associate Professor	Migration Studies, Family and Gender Studies, Cultural Sociology
Song Ying	Associate Professor	Political Communications, American Media Studies, Research Methodology Studies
Wang Yige	Associate Professor	Historical Sociology and Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Rural and Urban Sociology, Quantitative History
Yan Xunhua	Associate Professor	America’s Asia-Pacific Strategies, U.S.-China Relations, International Relations Theories
Zhang Keqing	Associate Professor	Medical Sociology, Life Course and Life Cycle Studies, Asian American Immigration, Aging and Health, Quantitative Research Methodology
Guo Xinyi	Associate Professor	American politics, American election

Major Publications and Research Projects (Past Five Years):

● High-Impact journal articles: 80

● Textbooks: 10

● Monographs: 8

● Translations: 6

● Funded Research Projects (provincial/ministerial/national level) : 10