University of Denver 博士，Harvard University 碩士，國立台灣大學學士；曾任 Winona State University 與 Ramapo College of New Jersey 助理教授；Princeton University, Duke　University, Hoover Institution, University of Durum，日本中央大學訪問學者；國家講座教授現任台灣大學教授，（高雄）中山大學兼任教授，武漢大學、天津師範大學、吉林大學（名譽）客座教授。

發表英文專著11本，其中含將發表2本：

Democracy (Made in Taiwan): The “Success State” as a Political Theory (Lexington 2008); Autonomy, Ethnicity and Poverty in Southwestern China: The State Turned Upside Down (Palgrave 2007)與已發表9本：Navigating Sovereignty: World Politics Lost in China, Palgrave, 2003; Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State, Routledge 2002; Reform, Identity and Chinese Foreign Policy, Vanguard Re-search Institute 2000; Collective Democracy: Political and Legal Reform in

China, Chinese University Press of Hong Kong 1999; State and Society in China′s Political Economy: Cultural Dynamics of Reform, Lynne Rienner 1995; Symbolic War: The Chinese Use of Force, 1840-1980, Institute of International Relations 1993; China′s Just World:Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy, Lynne Rienner 1993; Contending Dramas: A Cognitive Approach to International

Organizations, Praeger 1992; The Spirit of Chinese Foreign Policy:A Psychocultural View, Macmillan 1990.

另有中文專著： 日本近代性與中國－－在世界現身的主體策略、社會科學知識新論、後現代的政治知識、政治學的知識脈絡、女性主義的政治批判、文明衝突與中國、中國文化與中國的民、中國大陸研究、中共法治理論解析、兩岸關係的深層結構等合計六十餘本。