Huang Jing (academic)

Huang Jing
Born 1956
Residence Singapore
Nationality US
Alma mater Sichuan University
Fudan University
Harvard University
Occupation Political scientist
Spouse(s) Shirley Yang Xiuping
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 黃靖
Simplified Chinese 黄靖
Hanyu Pinyin Huáng Jìng

Huang Jing (黄靖; born 1956) is an American political scientist and alleged spy. He was the director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation and the Lee Foundation Professor on US-China Relations at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy until his permanent residence was revoked after the Ministry of Home Affairs called him "an agent of influence of a foreign country" on August 4, 2017.

Early life

Huang Jing was born in China in 1956. His parents were military doctors, and had served in the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War. While a teenager, he was sent to Yunnan as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement.[1][2]

Huang graduated from Sichuan University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in English, and he went on to earn a master's degree in history from Fudan University and a PhD from Harvard University in 1995.[3][4]

Career

Huang taught at Harvard University from 1993 to 1994.[3] He was an associate professor of political science at Utah State University from 1994 to 2004, where he was also the director of the Asia Studies Program, and he was granted tenure in 1998.[3][4] He also taught at Shandong University.[4] He was a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University from 2002 to 2003, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's John Thornton China Center from 2004 to 2008.[3][4]

In 2008, Huang joined the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, where he was the director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation and the Lee Foundation Professor on US-China Relations.[3][5] He also became an analyst for Xinhua News Agency.[3] He is the author of several books, including Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics, which won the 2002 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.[4]

On August 4, 2017, his permanent residence in Singapore was cancelled, and he and his wife were denied re-entry, on the assumption that he was "an agent of influence of a foreign country".[6][7] He was accused by the Singaporean Ministry of Home Affairs of "subversion and foreign interference in Singapore’s domestic politics."[1]

According to The New York Times, "[s]ome view his academic writings as pro-Chinese."[1]

Personal life

Huang is married to Shirley Yang Xiuping (楊秀萍).[5][3][7] They are both U.S. citizens, and resided in Singapore.[3]

Works

  • Huang, Jing (2000). Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521622844. OCLC 779692468.
  • Huang, Jing; Li, Xiaoting (2010). Inseparable Separation: The Making of China's Taiwan Policy. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 9789814287364. OCLC 401147121.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Paddock, Richard C. (August 5, 2017). "Singapore Orders Expulsion of American Academic". The New York Times. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ 中国崛起难免触及美国利益 学者:都要学会包容. 中国经济网. 2007-05-15. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sim, Royston (August 4, 2017). "LKY School professor Huang Jing banned, has PR cancelled, for being agent of influence for foreign country". The Strait Times. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jing Huang, Expert on Security in Asia, Joins Brookings". Brookings Institution. July 21, 2004. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  5. 1 2 華裔學者被指當外國間諜　新加坡永久禁入境 [Ethnic Chinese scholar accused of being foreign spy; permanently barred from entering Singapore]. Oriental Daily Hong Kong. 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
  6. ↑ Redden, Elizabeth (August 7, 2017). "Singapore Banishes American Academic". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Cancellation of Singapore Permanent Residence (SPR) Status - Huang Jing and Yang Xiuping". Ministry of Home Affairs. Singapore Government. August 4, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
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