Yawei Liu manages the China Focus program at the Carter Center and has been a member of numerous Carter Center missions to monitor Chinese village, township, and county people’s congress deputy elections since 1997. Since 2012, he has organized an annual forum on U.S.-China relations, which alternates between China and the US. He currently leads a project to examine the impact of the rise of China on developing countries and to promote US-China collaboration in African countries. Yawei earned his B.A in English literature from Xian Foreign Languages Institute (1982), M.A. in recent Chinese history from the University of Hawaii (1989) and Ph.D. in American History from Emory University (1996).
Dr. Liu has written extensively on China’s political developments and grassroots democracy, including three edited book series: “Rural Election and Governance in Contemporary China” (Northwestern University Press, Xi’an, 2002 and 2004), “The Political Readers” (China Central Translation Bureau Press, Beijing, 2006), and “Elections & Governance” (Northwestern University Press, Xian, 2009). He is the founder and editor of the China elections and governance website www.chinaelections.org. Dr. Liu is also co-author of the popular Chinese book “Obama: The Man Who Will Change America” (October 2008) and he is the founding editor of www.chinaelections.org, which went online in 2002. Other websites he founded and oversees include www.uscnpm.org (English) and www.uscnpm.com (Chinese).
