Chu, Yun-han (朱雲漢) is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. Professor Chu received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty of National Taiwan University in 1987. He serves concurrently as President of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. He is also the first-ever Asia-based member of the Council of the American Political Science Association. He specializes in democratization, politics of greater China, and East Asian political economy. He has been the Coordinator of Asian Barometer Survey, which covers seventeen countries in the region since 2004. He is an associate editor of Journal of East Asian Studies and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Democracy, International Studies Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, China Review and China Perspective. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of thirteen books. Among his publications are Crafting Democracy in Taiwan (Taipei: Institute for National Policy Research, 1992); Consolidating Third-Wave Democracies (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); China Under Jiang Zemin (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000); How East Asians View Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); Party Politics In East Asia: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); and Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform Era (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010).