Suisheng Zhao | The Dragon Roars Back: Xi Jinping’s Power Concentration and Foreign Policy Implications

SuiSheng Zhao

Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs

University of Denver

Suisheng Zhao is a Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. A Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, he is the founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, and the author and editor of over two dozen books and hundreds of academic articles. His most recent book, The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2023, was named one of “Best of Books 2024” by Foreign Affairs magazine. A two-time winner of the Distinguished Scholar Awards (the highest academic honor conferred by the University of Denver) in 2019-2010 and 2024-2025 years, Professor Zhao is recognized by Stanford/Elsevier as among the top 2% scientists. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Missouri, and a B.A. and M.A. in economics from Peking University