Jonathan Sullivan


Jonathan Sullivan is a British political scientist and Sinologist who researches political communications in China, Taiwan and other East Asian contexts, China's Internet and cyber-nationalism, studies of the Confucius Institutes, and China's politics of celebrity culture, hip hop and football.
Sullivan is Head of China Programmes at the Asia Research Institute and associate professor in Politics and international relations at the University of Nottingham. Sullivan is an editor of The Asia Dialogue, the online journal of the ARI. He is a co-founder of the China Soccer Observatory with Simon Chadwick and a member of The China Quarterly Executive Committee.

Early life and education

Sullivan comes from Kent, England. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Modern Chinese Studies and Master's degree in Asia Pacific Studies, all at the University of Leeds, Sullivan went to the University of Nottingham for learning Political science, where he got another master's degree and completed his PhD.

Academic career

From 2009 to 2011, Sullivan was a RCUK Fellow for China, Globalization and Civil Society. In 2012, he moved over to the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham to work with Steve Tsang, who was Head of the School, as Director of Research. In 2014, Sullivan went back to the School of Politics as Director of the China Policy Institute.
He was the Director of the CPI and Editor-in-Chief of the institute's online journal China Policy Institute: Analysis until 2018, when the CPI merged into ARI.
Sullivan was a British Science Association media fellow who facilitated a period of work at and writing for the BBC.

Works

Books

A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, with Chun-Yi Lee
  • ''China's Football Dream''

Selected articles

Selected op-eds