China, the Cold War, and Disasters of Clandestine Origin

Dr. John Delury is a professor of Chinese studies at the Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies and Underwood International College in Seoul, South Korea. A historian of modern China, he is the author of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century (Random House, 2013), with Orville Schell, which was translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He follows Korean peninsula affairs closely and contributes to Foreign Affairs, 38 North, and Global Asia (where he is also book review editor). Dr. Delury is a senior fellow at the Asia Society, Pacific Century Institute, and China Policy Institute, and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea. He taught briefly at Brown University, Columbia University, and Peking University and was associate director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in New York. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in history from Yale University. Most recently is the author of Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China, which is the subject of our conversation today.