Simon Shen

Simon Shen Xuhui
沈旭暉
Born	British Hong Kong
Alma mater	Queen's College Yale University (BA, MA) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Institutions	Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute of Education National Sun Yat-sen University
Doctoral advisor	Rana Mitter
Main interests	Chinese foreign policy Chinese nationalism International politics

Simon Xu Hui Shen (Chinese: 沈旭暉) is a Hong Kong political scientist and columnist.

Education

Shen was educated at the Queen's College and graduated from the Yale University in 2000 with bachelor's degrees in Political Science and History and later master's in Political Science. He obtained a doctoral degree from the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford in 2006. His thesis is titled "A New Stability in China's Internal and External Affairs? Reinventing Chinese Nationalism in Sino-American Relations (1999-2003)".

Career

Shen joined Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2003 and became research assistant professor in the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the same university. In 2009, he was invited by Anthony Cheung, then President of Hong Kong Institute of Education (now Education University of Hong Kong) to its Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He returned to CUHK in 2012.

He held visiting positions in Brookings Institution, University of Warwick and National University of Singapore.

In 2016, he left his hometown.[1] Within three years, he returned to Hong Kong but has since then left again in exile in the wake of the implementation of the national security law in 2020. Shen also served as the coordinator of the Taiwan-based Hong Kong news outlet Commons.[2]

Works

Books

• Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-US Relations: Change & Continuity, Causes & Cures. Routledge. 2015. (Co-edited with Jean-Marc Blanchard)
• China and the World (Vol. I – VIII). Sage. 2014. (Co-edited with Shaun Breslin and Carla Freeman)
• Multi-dimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China. Rowman & Littlefield. 2010. (Co-edited with Jean-Marc Blanchard)
• Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations. Rowman & Littlefield. 2010. (Co-edited with Shaun Breslin)
• Redefining Nationalism in Modern China: Sino-American Relations and the Emergence of Chinese Public Opinions in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan. 2007.

References

1. Koon, Wee Kek (17 June 2016). "Professor gives up trying to mend rifts tearing Hong Kong apart". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
2. 呂熙 (5 May 2022). "疾風中的新聞自由（下）：花果飄零 海外再說「香港故事」" [Freedom of the Press in the Storm (Part 2): Falling Blossoms, Telling the "Hong Kong Story" Overseas.]. Radio Free Asia (in Chinese). Retrieved 13 January 2025.