In Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations, Dr. Jessica Weiss traces China’s management of dozens of anti-foreign protests and their diplomatic consequences between 1985 and 2012, drawing upon extensive field research, including numerous interviews with activists, protesters, officials, and analysts in China, Japan and the United States.

At a National Committee program on Thursday, September 4, Dr. Weiss will discuss the diplomatic and domestic factors that drive protest management in China.

Jessica Chen Weiss is assistant professor of political science at Yale University and research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. She is also a fellow of the National Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program.  The author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2014), Dr. Weiss’s work has also appeared or is forthcoming in International Organization, the China Quarterly, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Professor Weiss received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. As an undergraduate at Stanford she founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange.

Copies of Powerful Patriots will be available for purchase.