Steve Tsang was born on Tsang Yui-sang in 1959 and is a political scientist and historian whose expertise includes politics and governance in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the foreign and security policies of China and Taiwan, and peace and security in East Asia.
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Steve Tsang is the current Director of the SOAS China Institute at the SOAS University of London.
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In September 2016, Tsang was announced as the new Director of the SOAS China Institute, part of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, a role he began in December 2016.
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Steve Tsang was previously a professor of contemporary Chinese studies at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies and Director of the China Policy Institute.
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Steve Tsang is the author of A Modern History of Hong Kong, which the last British Hong Kong governor Chris Patten described as "authoritative and well-researched".
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Steve Tsang is an associate fellow at Chatham House, Associate Editor of Palgrave Communication, serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for several academic journals and was Editor of the Nottingham China Policy Institute Series for Palgrave Macmillan.
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Steve Tsang regularly contributes to public debates on issues related to the politics, history, and development of East Asia, particularly China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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Steve Tsang is a frequent commentator in print media and on television and radio, particularly the BBC, where he has appeared on Newsnight, BBC News at Ten, World News, BBC News, News 24, The Talk Show, Today, PM, Newshour, What If, and various World Service programmes in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
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Steve Tsang's op-ed contributions have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine, Jane's Intelligence Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, South China Morning Post, China Daily, Taipei Times, The Straits Times, The Globe and Mail, Chicago Tribune, and the New Statesman amongst others.
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Steve Tsang has provided expert opinions to parliamentary committees in the British House of Commons, the European Parliament, and the United States Congress.