page_title: Kerry Brown (historian)
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Kerry Brown (historian) / Education
caption_attribution_description: Senior Fellow Kerry Brown met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing, November 2009
context_page_description: Kerry Brown FRSA is a British academic, author and sinologist specialising in Chinese history, international relations and politics. Brown is a current Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London, a Member of the Council of the Kent Archeological Society, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and from 1998 to 2005, he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office as First Secretary of the Embassy of the United Kingdom, Beijing, and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippine and East Timor Section. From 2011 to 2014, he led the Europe China Research and Advice Network funded by the European Union. Brown's main interests are around the development of politics and society in China from 1949 onwards, and he has written in particular about the Communist Party of China as a cultural rather than a purely political organisation and about contemporary elite political figures such as Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping, and about China's international relations.
context_section_description: Brown holds an M.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Chinese politics and language from Leeds University. He has a postgraduate diploma in Chinese from the University of West London.
caption: Kerry Brown meets Wen Jiabao, 2009
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