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Simon Shen Xuhui
沈旭暉
Born
Alma materQueen's College
Yale University (BA, MA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
InstitutionsChinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute of Education
National Sun Yat-sen University
Doctoral advisorRana Mitter
Main interests
Chinese foreign policy
Chinese nationalism
International politics

Simon Xu Hui Shen (Chinese: 沈旭暉) is a Hong Kong political scientist and columnist.

Education

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Shen was educated at the Queen's College and graduated from the Yale University in 2000 with bachelor's degrees in Political Science and History and later master's in Political Science. He obtained a doctoral degree from the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford in 2006. His thesis is titled "A New Stability in China's Internal and External Affairs? Reinventing Chinese Nationalism in Sino-American Relations (1999-2003)".

Academic career

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Shen joined Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2003 and became research assistant professor in the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the same university. In 2009, he was invited by Anthony Cheung, then President of Hong Kong Institute of Education (now Education University of Hong Kong) to its Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He returned to CUHK in 2012.

He held visiting positions in Brookings Institution, University of Warwick and National University of Singapore.

In 2016, he left his hometown.[1] Within three years, he returned to Hong Kong but has since then left again in exile in the wake of the implementation of the national security law in 2020.

Works

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Books

References

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  1. ^ Koon, Wee Kek (17 June 2016). "Professor gives up trying to mend rifts tearing Hong Kong apart". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 16 July 2017.