Steve Yui-Sang Tsang

Steve Tsang was born in Hong Kong and educated at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford. After he completed his D.Phil. at St Antony's College, Oxford, his former teachers asked him to stay on to set up a research and archival project on Hong Kong prior to the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China in 1997. Hence, his early career and books focused on Hong Kong. Since then he has published widely on the politics, history, security, and international relations of Taiwan and China. He also developed an interest and expertise on how democracies should deal with transnational terrorism in the age of global terrorism. After spending nearly three decades at Oxford, latterly as Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, he left Oxford to take up the Chair of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham in 2011. He enjoys reading, walking with his wife and son, and encouraging students to challenge their teachers intellectually.