Diana Fu

Diana Fu is associate professor of Chinese politics at Cornell University’s government department and director of the Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies.  She is a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings Institution and a public intellectual fellow with the National Committee on US-China Relations.  Her research examines popular contention, repression, civil society, and authoritarian citizenship in contemporary China. She is currently co-authoring a second book, “Governing China’s Global Diaspora: Consent & Coercion” examining how the Chinese state reaches across borders to influence diasporas in democracies and what makes this statecraft distinctive (forthcoming, Cambridge). She is the author of “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China” (Cambridge, 2018), which won best book awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the International Studies Association.  Her research and commentary have appeared BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, CNN, NPR, the Economist, and The New York Times, among others.  She was host of the TVO documentary series “China Here and Now” and of POLITICO China Watcher.  Before joining Cornell, Dr. Fu was a professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Political Science. She received her doctorate in Politics from Oxford University, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar and previously served as co-national secretary for the Rhodes Scholarships in China.