Professor Steve Tsang

About Steve Tsang

Steve Tsang is Head of School and Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He had previously worked as Director of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham and as Professorial Fellow, Dean, and Director of the Asian Studies Centre at St Antonys College, Oxford University, where he earned his D.Phil. Professor Tsang has published very extensively on the politics, international relations, security and history of the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They include 16 books of which five are single authored. He has introduced an analytical concept called ‘consultative Leninism for understanding the nature of politics in the Peoples Republic of China. He is currently completing a research project on the direction of development in China under Xi Jinping with colleagues based at the Central Party School of Beijing.