Bio

John Delury is Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) in Seoul, Korea.

On faculty since 2010, he also serves as Chair of International Studies at Yonsei’s Underwood International College (UIC). He teaches modern Chinese history, US-China relations, North Korean history and politics, and an introductory course on international studies.

Delury is the author of Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China (Cornell University Press, 2022) and co-author with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Random House, 2013). His articles can be found in Asian Survey, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Cold War History, and Late Imperial China, and his commentaries appear in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Washington Post, and 38 North. He contributes book reviews for the quarterly journal Global Asia, where he is associate managing editor.

John is a senior fellow of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations, public intellectual fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations, board member of the Pacific Century Institute, leadership council member of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and non-resident fellow at Sejong Institute and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on North Korea, Association of Asian Studies, American Historical Association, and Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is invited to offer his analysis on Asia Pacific affairs with governments, think tanks, corporations, and civil society organizations globally.

John received his BA, MA, and PhD in history from Yale University.