Sheng-Wei Wang

Sheng-Wei WANG is a Chinese American, based in Hong Kong. She has a B.S. from Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. She was a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2006, as an independent scholar and freelance writer, she founded the China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc., and a year later launched a website to promote U.S.-China relations. It has attracted well over a million viewers to date. In 2013-14, she also contributed 48 commentaries to the China Daily (Hong Kong). In 2013 she started research on Zheng He and has since published two single-authored English books and launched a second website. She was a finalist for the International Proverse Prize 2018, and has given many invited presentations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Switzerland and China.