Diana Fu

Diana Fu is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and a fellow at Brookings Institution, the Wilson Center, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Her research examines popular contention, repression, civil society, and authoritarian citizenship in contemporary China. She is currently co-authoring a second book examining how the Chinese state governs the global diaspora (under contract, Cambridge). She is the author of “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China” (Cambridge, 2018), which won best book awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the International Studies Association.  Her research and commentary have appeared BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, CNN, NPR, the Economist, and The New York Times, among others.  She was host of the TVO documentary series “China Here and Now” and of POLITICO China Watcher.  Prof. Fu received her doctorate in Politics from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar and has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College. She regularly gives public lectures and participates in track 1.5 dialogues on Canada-China and U.S.-China relations.