Vitae Wei-chin Lee (李偉欽) Office Department of Political Science ...

Office
Department of Political Science
Wake Forest University
Box 7568 Reynolda Station
Winston-Salem, N. C. 27109
Tel: (336)-758-5455/5449
Fax: (336)-758-6104
E-mail: leewei@wfu.edu
Education
Vitae
Wei-chin Lee (李偉欽)
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, December 1986
M.A. Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, June 1983
B.A. Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1978
Professional Experiences
2002-present Professor, Political Science, Wake Forest University
1993-2002 Associate Professor, Political Science, Wake Forest University
1987-93 Assistant Professor, Political Science, Wake Forest University
1995-present Editorial Board, Journal of Chinese Political Science
2000-present Advisory Board, Journal of Asian and African Studies
2009-present Executive Board Member, American Association of Chinese Studies
2010-present Academic Advisory Board, Contemporary Learning Series (CLS),
McGraw-Hill
2010 Local Coordinator, Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Chinese Studies, Wake Forest University, Oct. 15-17
2007 May-July Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of Political Science, National
Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2006 Fall Acting Chair, Department of Political Science
2006 Spring Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of Political Science, National
Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2003-06 Wake Forest/SASASAAS China Program Coordinator
2005 Fall Visiting Professor, Asian Studies Program, Center for International
Education, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Japan
2005 Fall Faculty Director, WFU Japan Program (Kansai Gaidai)
2002 Fall Faculty Director, WFU/SASASAAS China Program
1999-2001 At-Large member, Executive Board, Southeastern Conference of the
Association for Asian Studies
1993-2000 Editor (Book Review), Journal of Asian and African Studies
1996-2000 Coordinator, Asian Studies Program, Wake Forest University
1997-99 Coordinator, Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS/APSA)
1998 Summer Fulbright-Hays China Seminar Project, Group Leader in China
1995-97 Assistant Coordinator, Conference Group on Taiwan Studies
(CGOTS/APSA)
1993 Fall Faculty Director, WFU/SASASAAS China Program

Books (authored and edited)
2010 Taiwan’s Politics in the 21 st Century: Changes and Challenges, ed. Wei-chin Lee.
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2010, 294p.
2003 Sayonara to the Lee Teng-hui Era: Politics in Taiwan, 1988-2000, ed. Wei-chin
Lee and T.Y. Wang, Lanham, MD: University Press of America/Rowman and
Littlefield, 2003, 319p.
2000 Taiwan in Perspective, ed. Wei-chin Lee, Leiden, the Netherlands; Boston; Köln:
Brill, 2000, 224p.
1990 Taiwan, Oxford, England: Clio Press, 1990, 247p; Electronic version, Netlibrary,
Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Scholarly Articles (refereed)
2011 (coauthored with T.Y. Wang and Ching-hsin Yu), “Taiwan’s Expansion of
International Space: Opportunities and Challenges,” Journal of Contemporary
China, forthcoming.
2010 “Arms Twisting: US-Taiwan Arms Transfer in the 2000s,” Issues and Studies,
forthcoming.
2010 “Yours, Mine, or Everyone’s Property? China’s Property Law in 2007,” Journal
of Chinese Political Science, 15(1), 2010, 25-47.
2008 “Long Shot and Short Hit: China as a Military Power and Its Implications for the
USA and Taiwan,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 43(5), 2008, 523-542.
2007 “The Greening of the Brass: Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations Since 2000,”
Asian Security, 3(3), fall 2007, 204-227.
2005 “Taiwan’s Cultural Reconstruction Movement: Identity Politics and Collective
Action since 2000,” Issues and Studies 41(1), March 2005, 1-51.
2004 “Field of Dreams: An Overview of the Practice and Study of Taiwan’s Foreign
Policy,” Issues & Studies 40(3-4), Sept./Dec. 2004, 137-182.
2003 “China’s Military after the 16 th Party Congress: Long March to Eternity,”
Journal of Asian and African Studies, 38(4-5), 2003, 416-446.
2003 “The Buck Starts Here: Cross-Strait Economic Transaction and Taiwan’s
Domestic Politics,” American Asian Review, 21(3), 2003, 107-152.
2001 “Thunder in the Air: Taiwan and Theater Missile Defense,” The Nonproliferation
Review, 8(3), 2001, 107-122.
2000 “US Arms Transfer Policy to Taiwan: From Carter to Clinton,” Journal of
Contemporary China, 9(23), 2000, 53-75.
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2000 "A Split Decision: Privatization of the Aero-Industry Development Center
(AIDC) in Taiwan,” Pacific Focus, 15(1), 2000, 35-57.
1999 “One Talk, Two Tables: A Study of the 1998 Koo-Wang Meeting across the
Taiwan Strait,” Journal of Chinese Political Science, 5(2), 1999, 1-34.
1997 "A Mandarin at the Gate: The Political Economy of China’s Commercial Aircraft
Industry,” Asian Perspective, 21(2), Fall 1997, 179-221.
1996 “The Development of Taiwan’s Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Industry,”
Asian Affairs: An American Review, 23(1), 1996, 34-63.
1995 "China's Defense Industry Invades the Private Sector," SAIS Review, 15(2), 1995,
177-205.
1993 "Desperately Seeking Fighters: Taiwan's Military Aircraft Deals," Pacific Focus,
8(2), 1993, 141-162.
1993 "Taiwan's Foreign Aid Policy," Asian Affairs: An American Review, 20(1), 1993,
43-62.
1992 "Crimes of the Heart: Political Loyalty in Socialist China," Studies in
Comparative Communism (renamed Communist and Post-Communist Studies
since 1993) 25(3), 1992, 228-241.
1992 "Read My Lips or Watch My Feet: The State and Chinese Dissident
Intellectuals," Issues and Studies, 28(5), 1992, 29-48.
1991 "Heaven Can Wait? Rethinking the Chinese Notion of Human Rights," Asian
Thought and Society, (46), 1991, 28-39.
1991 "Iron and Nail: Civil-military Relations in the People's Republic of China,"
Journal of Asian and African Studies, 26(1-2), 1991, 132-148.
1990 "With Open Arms? China and Human Rights in the United Nations," Pacifica: A
Journal of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2(1), 1990, 16-37.
1990 "Hot Politics on an Icy Continent: The Future of Antarctica," Journal of
Economics and International Relations, 3(4), 1990, 359-373.
1990 "China and Antarctica: So Far and Yet So Near," Asian Survey, 30(6), 1990, 576-
586.
1990 "The Missing Piece: Taiwan in the Puzzle of Chinese Politics," Issues and
Studies, 26(5), 1990, 118-130.
1988 "The Birth of a Salesman: China as an Arms Supplier," Journal of Northeast
Asian Studies, 4(4), 1987-88, 32-46.
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1987 “Troubles Under the Water: Sino-Japanese Conflict of Sovereignty on the
Continental Shelf in the East China Sea," Ocean Development and International
Law, 18(5), 1987, 585-611.
1986 "Is the Pacific Basin Really Coming Together?" World Affairs, 149(1), 1986, 25-
33.
Selected Book Chapters and Others (full list upon request)
2010 “Taiwan’s Politics in the 2000s: An Introduction,” Taiwan’s Politics in the 21 st
Century: Changes and Challenges, ed. Wei-chin Lee. Singapore: World
Scientific Publishing Co., 2010, 1-21.
2010 “Sound and Fury: US-Taiwan Relations under Chen Shui-bian in the 2000s,”
Taiwan’s Politics in the 21 st Century: Changes and Challenges, ed. Wei-chin Lee.
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2010, 227-263.
2009 “Defense Industry,” Linsun Cheng, et al., eds. Berkshire Encyclopedia of China,
Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2009, 593-597.
2008 “How Can You Win My Heart? A Re-examination of Cross-Strait Interaction
Model,” Proceedings of the “Peaceful Resolution and Hearts and Minds Project”
(Center of Taiwan Studies, Peking University, and Global Forum of Chinese
Political Scientists), in Chinese, September 2008, 34-49.
2006 “Luftfahrt” (Aviation), China. Ein Lexikon zu Geographie und Wirtschaft, ed.
Brunhild Staiger, Stefan Friedrich and Hans-Will Schutte, Wissenschaftliche
Buchgesellschaft WBG Wissenverbindet, 2006, 189-190.
2005 “Party Politics,” Special issue on “Elections 2004 in the Republic of China on
Taiwan,” American Journal of Chinese Studies, June 2005, 167-168.
2003 “China’s Military after the 16 th Party Congress: Long March to Eternity,” in
China After the 16 th Party Congress: Prospects and Challenges, ed. T.Y. Wang,
Willowdale, ON (Canada): de Sitter Press, 2005, 93-123. (Reprinted from the
article in the Journal of Asian and African Studies, 38(4-5), 2003, 416-446).
2003 “Sayonara to the Lee Teng-hui Era” (introduction chapter) in Sayonara to the Lee
Teng-hui Era: Politics in Taiwan, 1988-2000, ed. Wei-chin Lee and T.Y. Wang,
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003, 1-24.
2003 “2000年總統大選後台灣政治的探討與展望” [The Exploration and Prospect of
Taiwanese Politics after the 2000 Presidential Election], 社會科學的應用:
台灣的困境與未來 [The Application of Social Sciences], 蔡文輝 (Wen-hui Tsai)
and 陳博中 (George Chen)主編,Taipei:五南, 2003, 19-70.
2003 “Aviation,” Brunhild Staiger, Stefan Friedrich, Hans-Wilm Schütte, ed. Das
Große China-Lexikon (Great China Encyclopedia), Eine Publikation des Instituts
für Asienkunde, gefördert von der Volkswagen-Stiftung Primus Verlag,
Darmstadt 2003 (ISBN 3-89678-462-5), 458-459.
Book Reviews (Upon request)
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