Jean-Pierre Cabestan is head and professor, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also associate researcher at the Asia Centre, Paris. Before August 2007, he was Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and was attached to Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Paris 1. From 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, CEFC) in Hong Kong and chief editor of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. From 1994 to 1998, he was director of the Taipei Office of the CEFC. In 1990-1991, he was lecturer at the Politics Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies. His most recent publications include Le système politique de la Chine populaire (Paris, PUF, 1994); Taiwan-Chine populaire: l'impossible réunification (Paris, Ifri-Dunod, 1995); Le système politique de Taiwan (Paris, PUF, 1999); Chine-Taiwan: la guerre est-elle concevable? La sécurité extérieure de Taiwan face à la menace de la Chine populaire, Paris, Economica, 2003; (with Benoît Vermander) La Chine et ses frontières. La confrontation Chine-Taiwan, Paris, Presses des Sciences Po, 2005 (translated into Chinese and published in a special issue of the Journal Renlai, Taipei, in January 2007; (with Sébastien Colin, Isabelle Facon and Michal Meidan) La Chine et la Russie: entre convergences and méfiance, Paris, Unicomm, 2008; (with Tanguy Le Pesant) L’esprit de défense de Taiwan face à la Chine: la jeunesse taiwanaise face à la tentation de la Chine, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2009 ; and La politique internationale de la Chine. Entre intégration et volonté de puissance, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2010. He has also published numerous articles and contributions in English on China's political system and reform, Chinese law, the relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
