Sheng Ding

Dr. Ding received his masters and doctoral degrees from Rutgers University. He has recently taught upper-level courses such as Asian Politics, International Law and Organizations, International Relations in Asia Pacific, US Foreign Policy, and an honors seminar on the US-China Relations.

Dr. Ding's refereed journal articles have appeared in: Asian Journal of Political Science, Asian Perspective, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Globalizations, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Journal of Migration and Human Security, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Pacific Affairs, and Politics. He is the author of The Dragon's Hidden Wings: How China Rises with Its Soft Power (2008).

In 2008, Dr. Ding received Bloomsburg University Institute for Culture and Society's Award for Outstanding Scholarship. In 2010, he received Bloomsburg University Liberal Arts College Dean's Salute to Excellence. In 2011, he received Bloomsburg University Provost's Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity. In 2014, he was awarded a grant by the EAI Fellows Program of East Asia Institute (South Korea).

Research Interests

• Asian Politics
• Diaspora and Immigration
• International Relations in Asia Pacific

Publications

Book

• Sheng Ding. 2008. The Dragon's Hidden Wings: How China Rises with Its Soft Power (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books—an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield). ISBN: 9780739123928 and 97807391239285 (Hardcover and paperback)

Refereed Journal Articles

• Rey Koslowski and Sheng Ding. 2024. "Selective Migration Policies with Chinese Characteristics," Journal of Migration and Human Security, forthcoming.
• Sheng Ding. 2024. "Changing Diasporic Identity and Increasing Global Backlash: The Xi Government's Tactics and Challenges of Engaging New Generation Overseas Chinese." Globalizations, forthcoming.
• Sheng Ding and Rey Koslowski. 2017. "Chinese Soft Power and Immigration Reform: Can Beijing's Approach to Pursuing Global Talent and Maintaining Domestic Stability Succeed?" Journal of Chinese Political Science, 22 (1): 97-116.
• Sheng Ding. 2015. "Engaging Diasporas via Charm Offensive and Indigenized Communication: An Analysis of China's Diaspora Engagement Policies in the Xi Era." Politics, 35 (3): 230-244.
• Sheng Ding. 2015. "Modernization without Democratization in the Digital Age: China's Micromanagement of its Contentious State-Society Relations." Asian Journal of Political Science, 23 (1): 1-22.
• Sheng Ding. 2012. "Are Human Rights the Achilles' Heel of Chinese Soft Power? A New Perspective on the Appeal of Chinese Soft Power." Asian Perspective, 36 (4): 641-665.
• Sheng Ding. 2012. "Embracing the Tension between Ethnic Identity and Academic Identity: An Analysis of Challenges to Chinese American Political Scientists' Presentation of Knowledge. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 17 (4): 379-399.
• Sheng Ding. 2011. "Branding a Rising China: An Analysis of Beijing's National Image Management in the Age of China's Rise." Journal of Asian and African Studies, 46 (3): 293-306.
• Sheng Ding. 2010. "Analyzing Rising Power from the Perspective of Soft Power: A New Look at China's Rise to the Status Quo Power." Journal of Contemporary China, 19 (64): 255-271.
• Sheng Ding. 2009. "Informing the Masses and Heeding Public Opinion: China's New Internet-Related Policy Initiatives to Deal with its Governance Crisis." Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 6 (1): 31-43.
• Sheng Ding. 2008. "To Build a ‘Harmonious World': China's Soft Power Wielding in the Global South." Journal of Chinese Political Science, 13 (2): 193-214.
• Sheng Ding. 2007. "Digital Diaspora and National Image Building: A New Perspective on Chinese Diaspora Study in the Age of China's Rise." Pacific Affairs, 80 (4): 627-648.
• Yanzhong Huang and Sheng Ding. 2006. The Dragon's Underbelly: An Analysis of China's Soft Power. East Asia: An International Quarterly, 23 (4): 22-44.
• Robert Saunders and Sheng Ding. 2006. "Digital Dragons and Cybernetic Bears: Comparing the Overseas Chinese and Near Abroad Russian Web Communities." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 12 (2): 255-290.
• Sheng Ding and Robert Saunders. 2006. "Talking Up China: An Analysis of Cultural Power and the Global Popularization of the Chinese Language." East Asia: An International Quarterly, 23 (2): 3-33.

Book Chapters

• Sheng Ding. 2022. "Chinese Diaspora's New Role in China's Diplomacy" in Liam Kennedy, eds., Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy. Routledge.
• Sheng Ding. 2018. "China's Soft Power." In Tim Wright, eds., Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Oxford University Press.
• Sheng Ding. 2018. "Promoting Chinese Culture in China's Public Diplomacy" in Ines Sieckmann and Odila Triebel, eds., A New Responsible Power China? China's Public Diplomacy for Global public Goods. Stuttgart, GE: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
• Sheng Ding. 2016. "The Political Rationale of China's Deliberately Limited Role in the Libyan Civil War" in Dag Henriksen and Ann Karin Larsen, eds., The Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya. Oxford University Press.
• Sheng Ding. 2014. "Analyzing the Impacts of Civil Society Organizations on China's Political Modernization," in Sujian Guo, eds., State-Society Relations and Governance in China. Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington.
• Sheng Ding. 2012. "Great Firewall of China: Internet Censorship and Chinese Foreign Policies," in Emilian Kavalski, eds., Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy. Ashgate.
• Sheng Ding. 2011. "Foreign Publicity with Weak Political Credibility: A Case Study of Beijing's Foreign Publicity over the Tibet Riots," in Zhiqun Zhu, eds., The People's Republic of China Today: Internal and External Challenges. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
• Sheng Ding. 2009. "To Build a Government of Better Transparency and More Accountability: The CCP's Governance Performance in the Hu Era," in Baogang Guo and Dennis Hickey, eds., Toward Better Governance in China: An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform. Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington.
• Sheng Ding. 2009. "A Concealed Regionalization without Historical Roots: A New Form of Regionalism in Rising China's Foreign Policy," in Emilian Kavalski, eds., China and the Global Politics of Regionalization. Ashgate.
• Sheng Ding. 2008. "To Build a ‘Harmonious World': China's Soft Power Wielding in the Global South," in Sujian Guo and Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, eds., "Harmonious World" and China's New Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield. (Reprinted)

Non-Refereed Publications

• Sheng Ding. 2019. Review of Shelly Chan, Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018). The China Quarterly, vol. 237
• Sheng Ding. 2017. Review of John W. Garver, China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China (Oxford University Press, 2016). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 22 (2).
• Sheng Ding. 2016. Review of Daniel C. Lynch, China's Future: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics and Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2015). Journal of Asian Studies, 75 (4).
• Sheng Ding. 2015. Review of Jessica C. Teets, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 20 (3).
• Sheng Ding. 2015. "Chinese Language and Beijing's Public Diplomacy," China Policy Institute Blog, The University of Nottingham. June 9.
• Sheng Ding. 2014. Review of Steve Chan, Looking for Balance: China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2012). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 19 (4).
• Sheng Ding. 2014. "China's Dilemma in the Ukraine Crisis," Asia Pacific Bulletin, 255, March 27. East-West Center in Washington. http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/apb255.pdf
• Sheng Ding. 2014. "The Chinese Civil Society Needs to be Nurtured by a Sound Legal Framework", Review Essay on the book Karla W. Simon, Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the "New Reform Era" (Oxford University Press, 2013). Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Springer), 7 (2): 329-334.
• Sheng Ding. 2014 "Chinese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of China's new Diaspora Engagement Policies in the Xi Era," EAI Fellows Program Working Paper Series, East Asia Institute, 43. https://www.eai.or.kr/data/bbs/eng_report/201404011627122.pdf
• Sheng Ding. 2013. Review of Karla W. Simon, Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the "New Reform Era" (Oxford University Press, 2013). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 18 (4).
• Sheng Ding. 2013. "Can the CCP Really Afford to Play the Nationalist Card?" Asia Pacific Bulletin, 196, January 17, 2013. East-West Center in Washington. http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/apb196_1.pdf
• Sheng Ding. 2013. "Soft Power Diplomacy: A New Perspective on the Study of Japanese and Chinese Foreign Policy." Review essay on Jing Sun's Japan and China as Charm Rivals: Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2012). Asia Policy, 15: 145-148.
• Sheng Ding. 2012. Review of Brantly Womack, China Among Unequals: Asymmetric Foreign Relationships in Asia (World Scientific Publisher, 2010). China Review International, 19 (1): 146-149.
• Sheng Ding. 2012. "Can One Hill Shelter Two Tigers? An Analysis of the Sino-Indian Relationship." Review essay on Jonathan Holslag's China and India: Prospects for Peace (Columbia University Press, 2010). Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 5 (4): 138-144.
• Sheng Ding. 2012. "Don't Worry About the China Bashing," The Diplomat, March 24. https://thediplomat.com/2012/03/dont-worry-about-the-china-bashing
• Sheng Ding. 2012. "All Join in the China-Bashing Game," Viewpoints, China Radio International. March 7. http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/03/07/3141s685328.htm
• Sheng Ding. 2012. Review of Shalendra D. Sharma, China and India in the Age of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 17 (1).
• Sheng Ding. 2011. "Internet Activism and Its Role in China's Transforming State-Society Relations." Review essay on Guobin Yang's The Power of The Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press 2009). Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 4 (2): 127-132.
• Sheng Ding. 2010. "Sons of The Yellow Emperor Go Online: The State of the Chinese Digital Diaspora," Global Migration and Transitional Politics Working Paper Series, 13, George Mason University.
• Sheng Ding. 2010. Review of Yongnian Zheng, Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China (Stanford University Press, 2008). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 15 (4).
• Sheng Ding. 2008. Review of Alan M. Wachman, Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity (Stanford University Press, 2007). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 13 (3).
• Sheng Ding. 2008. Review of Elizabeth C. Hanson, The Information Revolution and World Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). International Studies Review, 10 (4).
• Sheng Ding, 2008. Review of Bates Gill, Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Institute Press, 2007). Journal of Chinese Political Science, 13 (1).
• Sheng Ding. 2007. Review of Christopher Marsh, Unparalleled Reforms: China's Rise, Russia's Fall, and The Interdependence of Transition (Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). East Asia: An International Quarterly, 24 (3).
• Sheng Ding. 2007. Review of Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen, eds., Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm (Princeton University Press, 2005). The Journal of Politics, 69 (3).
• Sheng Ding. 2006. Review of Danny Paau and Herbert Yee, eds., Return of the Dragon: US-China Relations in the 21st Century (Peter Lang, 2005). East Asia: An International Quarterly, 23 (1).