Yawei Liu, Ph.D.

	Professor, Georgia Perimeter College
	Director, China Program
	The Carter Center
	One Copenhill, 453 Freedom Parkway
	Atlanta, GA 30307
	tel (Georgia Perimeter College): 678-407-5062
	tel (Carter Center): 404-420-5162
	email: labywl@emory.edu

Yawei Liu is Director of The Carter Center's China Elections Project and Associate Professor of American history at Georgia Perimeter College. Yawei Liu has been a member of numerous Carter Center missions to monitor Chinese village, township and county people's congress deputy elections from 1997 to 200 6. He has also observed elections in Nicaragua, Peru and Taiwan. He has written extensively on China's political developments and grassroots democracy. He edited two Chinese book series: Rural Election and Governance in Contemporary China (Northwestern University Press, Xian, 2002 and 2004) and the Political Readers (China Central Translation Bureau Press, 2006). He is the founder and editor of China Elections and Governance (www.chinaelections.org and www.chinaelections.org/en), a website sponsored by The Carter Center on political and social issues of China (2002 to now). Yawei Liu earned his B.A in English literature from Xian Foreign Languages Institute (1982), M.A. in recent Chinese history from the University of Hawaii (1989) and Ph. D. in American History from Emory University (1996).