LI Qikeng is a professor at School of English & International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University since 2008. He was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Guilford College from 2006-2007, and the Chinese director at three Confucius Institutes in the United States, Germany and Hungary from 2010-2019. His research interest includes, but is not limited to area and country studies, people-to-people exchanges, international relations, etc. He loves sports and is approachable. TITLE/POSITION: Professor
EMAIL: liqikeng@bfsu.edu.cn
DEGREES • PhD in American Studies at School of English & International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2004 • MA in American Studies at School of English & International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2000. • BA in English language and literature, Department of English, Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1989.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS • Professor, since September 2008. • Associate Professor, from 2001 to 2008. • Lecturer, from 1995 to 2001.
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE • Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Guilford College, from August 2006 to June 2007. • Chinese director at Confucius Institutes at University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States, University of Goettingen in Germany, and ELTE in Hungary, from August 2010 to August 2019.
TEACHING • China-U.S. Relations • American Government & Politics • American Foreign Policy
RESEARCH INTERESTS • American politics • International Relations • public diplomacy • people-to-people relations
RESEARCH PROJECTS • American Congresspersons’ Attitudes towards China since the End of the Cold War--A State-by-State Analysis. NSSFC • Major Research Project on the Study of U.S. Issues in the New Context. NSSFC
SCHOLARLY WORKS • American Congresspersons’ Attitudes Towards China since the End of Cold War—A State by State Analysis • On the Stage and Behind the Scene: The Role of the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in US Foreign Policy • “Polarization of American Public Opinion Ecology in the Context of ‘Truth Decay’” • “The Rise and Influence of the Thought of American Democratic Socialism” • “Confucius Institutes’ Mission in Public Diplomacy” • “The Fulbright Hearings on China and Its Impact on Sino-US Relations”
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