Dian Zhong

About

Dian Zhong is a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is a member of the Hoover History Lab, focusing on the comparative histories among developing countries during the twentieth century.

Zhong was previously a lecturer in Portuguese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a teaching and research assistant at the School of Government of Peking University. She is also a translator and interpreter of Mandarin, Portuguese, and English, providing services for major international organizations such as the G20 and BRICS (the economic group of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).

Zhong received her PhD in political science at Peking University. In addition to publishing dozens of academic works on the topics of political development, comparative political institutions, regime change, political parties, geopolitics, and ideology, she is the author of a series of university textbooks on Brazilian studies in China. Her current research aims to explore the similarities and differences in crisis solving among “follower societies,” with a special interest in the psychological factors that have shaped the trajectories of political development of China and Brazil.