Dr. Hsiung, born on July 23, 1935 in Kaifeng, Honan, China, came to the United States in 1958. He obtained BA from the National Taiwan University in 1955, MA from Southern Illinois University in 1960, and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1967. His doctoral thesis deals with Communist China's conception of world order and basic issues of international law. He taught briefly at Columbia University and later joined the faculty of New York University in 1967 where he teaches international law, international-politics theory, and international governance His teaching and research repertoire also includes East Asian politics, Asian Pacific international relations, and Asian political culture. Among his broad interests are America's strategic stakes in Asia Pacific Dr. Hsiung also served as visiting professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the Baptist University in Hong Kong (1997-99), visiting professor at Sun Yat-sen University (China and Taiwan), honorary professors at other universities, adviser to Minister of Education, Singapore, and consultant, Shanghai National Academy of the Social Sciences.
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Dr. Hsiung is an expert on Chinese affairs and international politics and law. He has published numerous articles and 16 books, including Law and Policy in China's Foreign Relations (1972), Beyond China's Foreign Policy (1985), U.S.-Asian Relations (ed., 1983), Human Rights in East Asia: A Cultural Perspective ( 1986), Anarchy and Order: The Interplay of Politics and Law in International Relations (1997), Asia Pacific in the New World Politics (1993), Anarchy and Order: The Interplay of Law and Politics in International Relations (1997), and Hong Kong the Super Paradox ( 2000. The book on Hong Kong reviews Hong Kong's crucial transition period from 1997 to 1999 and claims to be the first such book in English bearing testimony to how the Hong Kong SAR managed to face off challenges to its viability and to make its unique "one country, two systems" model work under Chinese sovereignty.
His credentials in community affairs include advisory affiliations with a number of Chinese-American civic, business, and banking organizations, such as the Chinese Import and Export Association of America, the Jiangxi Landsmanschaft, and the Friends of Hong Kong and Macao Committee. He was a co-founder of the Chinese American Academic and Professional Society. Dr. Hsiung directs the Contemporary U.S.-Asia Research Institute, a New York-based think-tank, and is a former Executive Editor of Asian Affairs, a learned journal published in Washington, D.C.