Professor Julia C Strauss 朱莉教授 FGCA is Professor of Chinese Politics at Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London . She received a BA in Chinese Language and European History from Connecticut College (1983) and both an MA and PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (1984, 1991). She moved to the Department of Political and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 1994. She served as Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002-2011 and was promoted to Professor in 2013. She offers courses in Chinese politics and comparative political sociology. She is a member of the Association for Asian Studies, the American Political Science Association, and the Latin American Studies Association.

She is author of State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance (2019), Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940 (1998). 

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