Professor

Institute of International Strategy, Party School of the Central Committee

Born on November the 26^th of 1943. He is the Professor of Institute of International Strategy at Party School of the Central Committee and Contract Research Fellow at National Research Center of the State Council specializing in Asian and African development and at Center for Korean Studies at Peking University with a focus on international politics and the Korean Peninsula.

Professor Zhang studied at Kim II-sung University in North Korea in 1964 and returned to China in 1968. He served in government departments and Chinese armies for 10 years and later did studies on international politics at CASS in Jilin Province. Mr. Zhang read international studies first as a student in Party School of the Central Committee and has since 1988 been a faculty member and research fellow at the School.

He is the author of a host of books including North Korea and China in International Politics before 1945 (1966), Chung Ju-yung(1989), and South Korea Literature Studies (1998) and etc. His academic papers include Tangun and Politics (1997), On National Interests (1998), Korean Peninsula in the Past 50 Years (2001) and Prospects of Korean Peninsula Realtions (2003) and etc.