Maria Repnikova is a scholar of China\u2019s political communication. Maria speaks fluent Mandarin, Russian and Spanish.Dr. Repnikova is an Assistant Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. This year she is a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholar.\u00a0 In the past, Maria was a post-doctoral fellow at the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She received her doctorate (DPhil) in Politics at the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar.<\/p>\n
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Dr. ZHAI Zheng is an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he has been teaching since 2001. His research interests are in the fields of political communication, American studies as well as translation. He has authored two books, compiled or co-compiled over ten textbooks used throughout China, and published over twenty papers. He took part in the Fulbright FLTA Program in 2005-2006. Between 2018 and 2020, he first served as the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and then as a visiting associate professor at the College of Social Sciences, UHM. He is the secretary general of the China Association for Intercultural Communication, and director of Info USA@BFSU, an American Cultural Center supported by the US Embassy Beijing.<\/p>\n
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