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Dr Liming Wang
DIRECTOR
UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland

E-Mail: liming.wang@ucd.ie

Tel: +353 1 716 4747
Fax: +353 1 716 4844
BACKGROUND
Born and brought up in China, Dr Wang worked for six and a half years (as a Deputy Division Director from 1986) for the Ministry of Commerce of PR China in Beijing following his primary degree obtained in 1982. In 1989, he completed an International MBA course in Sheffield Hallam University as a visiting student. He was subsequently awarded a visiting studentship from Queen's University Belfast and, after completing his PhD in Economics, became a teaching and research fellow at Queen's in 1995. From 2000, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the China Unit, which is primarily involved in managing the expansion and development of Queen's links with China in teaching, research and joint programmes.
Dr Wang was appointed at the beginning of 2006 to establish and run the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at UCD. He was also appointed as Director of UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland.
Outside of UCD, Dr Wang is the Chairman of the Association for Chinese Studies in Ireland, the Secretary General of the Chinese Economic Association in Europe and a Board Director of the Institute of International Trade of Ireland. He has been a Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2002-2004) and Anhui Normal University since 2003. He has also been a member of International Editorial Board for Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies since 2003.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMS
  1. Wang, L. (ed.), Rising China in the Changing World Economy, Routledge/Taylaor and Francis Group, forthcoming, April 2011.
  2. Li, L., Brugha, C. and Wang, L. (2010), Doing Business in China: The Irish Experience, Dublin: Blackhall Publishing.
  3. Wang, L. (2010), special issue edited (as an invited guest editor) on China's Economic Recovery and Its Integration with the World Economy, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group.
  4. Wang, L. and Davis, J. (2000), Chinas Grain Economy: The challenge of feeding more than a billion, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
  1. Wang, L., Liu C. and Kane F. (2010), The Celtic Tiger and the Chinese Dragon: Modelling the Irish and Chinese Economic Miracles, OSullivan, M. and Miller R. (ed.) What Did We Do Right? Global views on Ireland Dublin: Blackhall Publishing.
  2. Davis, J., Wang, L. and Chen, F. (2002), Land Reform Initiatives in China, Peters, G. (ed.), Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Ashgate Press, pp383-398.
  3. Liao, B., Wang, L., Davis, J and Jia, B. (2002), The Impacts of Local Government Policies on the Development of Traditional Technology: A Case Study of the Daning Salt Factory, in Chan, A. et al. (ed.), Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, Singapore University Press, Singapore, pp148-153.
  4. Davis, J. and Wang, L. (2000), The Economic Behaviour of Chinas Grain Producers in Transition, in Cook, S. et al. (ed.), The Chinese Economy under Transition, Macmillan Press, London, pp198-217.
ARTICLES
  1. Wang, L. and Zheng, J. (2010), China and the Changing Landscape of the World Economy, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies,Vol. 8, No. 3, pp203-214.
  2. Ke, J., Wang, L. and Murray, L. (2010), An Empirical Analysis of the Volatility Spillover Effect between Primary Stock Markets Abroad and China, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies,Vol.8, No. 3, pp315-333.
  3. Wang, L. (2008), Butterfly Effect: Will the Credit Crunch Cause Chaos for China, Financial Quarterly, Q2 08, A Business & Finance publication, pp18-20.
  4. Wang, L. (2007), Red Hot Dragon, Business & Finance, Asia Supplements, Vol.43, No. 18, pp8-11.
  5. Liu, G., Wang, L., Woo W.T. and Liu, X., (2001) Chinas New Horizon: Challenges and Opportunities from WTO Membership, China Economic Review, Vol. 12, No. 2-3, pp103-106.
  6. Wang, L. and Davis, J. (1998), Can China Feed Its People into the Next Millennium: Projections for Chinas Grain Supply and Demand to 2010, International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp53-67.
  7. Fu, C., Wang, L. and Davis, J. (1998), Land Reform in Rural China since the mid 80s, FAO bulletin: Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, No. 2, pp122-137.
  8. Li, D., Davis, J. and Wang, L. (1998), Industrialisation and the Sustainability of Chinas Agriculture, Economics of Planning, Vol. 31 No.2-3, pp213-230.