Peace Programs

China Program

Yawei Liu, Ph.D., Director

Yawei Liu is director of the China Program and associate professor of American history at Georgia Perimeter College. Yawei has been a member of numerous Carter Center missions to monitor Chinese village, township, and county people's congress deputy elections since 1997. He has written extensively on China's political developments and grassroots democracy, including two edited books: Rural Election and Governance in Contemporary China (Northwestern University Press, Xi'an, 2002 and 2004) and The Political Readers (China Central Translation Bureau Press, Beijing, 2006). He is the founder and editor of the China elections and governance Web site (www.chinaelections.org). He earned his bachelor's degree in English literature from Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute (1982), master's degree in recent Chinese history from the University of Hawaii (1989), and doctorate in American history from Emory University (1996).

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Sean Ding, Program Associate

Sean Ding is program associate to the China Program at The Carter Center. Sean assists with programming decisions, fundraising, project management, as well as coordinating the Access to Information programming. In addition, Sean oversees the graphic design of program Web sites and publications and contributes to both the Chinese and English versions of China Elections and Governance Web site: www.chinaelections.org (Chinese language) and www.chinaelections.net (English language). Sean holds a bachelor's degree in Arabic from Beijing Foreign Studies University and obtained a master of arts degree in political science from Georgia State University before joining The Carter Center in May 2008.