David Zweig (Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1983) is Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, and Vice-President of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in 1984-85, and in 2013-2015 received the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. For 15 years, he directed the Center on China's Transnational Relations at HKUST. Over 40,000 students have signed up for his two courses on Chinese politics and China and the world, both on Coursera.