22 Facts About Shiping Tang

Shiping Tang was born on 24 January 1967 and is a Chinese Molecular Biologist, political scientist, political economist, computational social scientist, and philosopher of social sciences.

Shiping Tang is an editor of International Relations, International Security, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Chinese Journal of International Politics and Security Studies, and was an editor of International Studies Quarterly.

In 1985, Tang received a BSc in Paleontology from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.

However, believing in scientific realism, Shiping Tang decided to apply his knowledge of natural sciences, especially evolution theory, to social sciences and received a Master's degree in International relations from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999.

Shiping Tang is known for his multi-disciplinary works on the Social Evolutionary Paradigm in IR.

Between 1988 and 1990, Shiping Tang was a Research Scientist at Sino-America Biotech and Weko Biotech.

Shiping Tang was a Research fellow and then Senior fellow at Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a Senior Fellow at Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Shiping Tang is the creator of the Social Evolutionary Paradigm, a social evolutionary theory.

Shiping Tang is one of those rare IR theorists who tries to construct a grand theory not only for the discipline but for human society as a whole.

American political scientist Richard Ned Lebow thinks Shiping Tang produced a non-determinist and non-reductionist approach to social evolution that is distinct from and critical of evolutionary psychology.

Shiping Tang further explained the SEP's theoretical underpinning in his 2020 book On Social Evolution.

American political scientist Robert Jervis thinks Shiping Tang puts the evolutionary approach through its paces and shows how selection, variance, and inheritance operate to explain both macro and micro Social Developments.

Shiping Tang thinks that Ashraf and Galor ignored the "Eurasia effect" and have some "econometric error".

Shiping Tang's rebuttal was endorsed by American statistician Andrew Gelman in a Washington Post article.

Back in 2009, after the Russo-Georgian War, Shiping Tang has already warned that Ukraine will be the next battleground.

Shiping Tang published an op-eds to call for a neutral Ukraine to prevent the conflict in 2014.

Shiping Tang argues that Chinese political leaders should read 1587, a Year of No Significance, a 1981 book by Ray Huang, carefully to pre-empt failure of bureaucratic system which leads to great policy failures like those happened in the mid-Ming dynasty.

Shiping Tang believes that Chinese people should read more Global History and read less ancient Chinese political history.

Shiping Tang even thinks that some researches about ancient China, such as Zhao Tingyang and Yan Xuetong's works, are a waste of public money.

Shiping Tang thinks Chinese people should learn from the experiences of modernisation of various counties, to better modernize China and have a say on global affairs.

Shiping Tang argues that Norwegian social theorist Jon Elster is one of the most over-rated scholars in 20th and 21st centuries.

Shiping Tang was the first Chinese and Asian scholar to receive this prestigious award.