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·Friday, 12 December 2008
Choon Heum Choi, senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, visited SIIS and talked with Gong Keyu, Deputy Director of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies, Yu Yingli and Li Ning about KoreanPeninsula and Northeast Asia.

·Friday, 12 December 2008
Dr. Daniel O. Suman, University of Miami, visited SIIS and talked with fellows Niu Haibing and Lou Xiangfei about Sino-Latin American ties.

·Thursday, 11 December 2008
Rosemary Foot, Professor of Oxford University, headed a group to SIIS and talked with fellows of the Departments of American Studies and European Studies about Sino-U.S. relations, arms control, non-proliferation and humanitarian aid.

·Thursday, 11 December 2008
Klaus Meschkat, emeritus professor at the University of Hannover, visited SIIS and delivered a lecture onPolitical Reform in Latin America with special focus on the Andean Region.

·Tuesday, 09 December 2008
Dr. Rudolf Traub-Merz, Director of Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) Shanghai Office, visited SIIS and talked with V. President Chen Dongxiao, Wang Lei, Director of the Department of Academic Administration, and Niu Haibing about bilateral cooperation on the seminar due to be held next April.

·Monday, 08 December 2008
Riva Gangulg Das, the new Indian Consul General in Shanghai, made a courtesy visit to President Yang Jiemian. Zhao Gancheng, Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, Shao Yuqun, the Deputy Director, and Wang Lei, Director of the Department of Academic Administration, were present at the meeting.

·Monday, 08 December 2008
Beatrice Camp, the new U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with President Yang Jiemian and Yan Anlin, Director of the Department of Cross-Straits, HK and Macao Studies, and Shao Yuqun, Deputy Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, about Cross-Straits question and international security.

·Monday, 01 December 2008
Professor Timothy Garton Ash, St Antonys College, Oxford University, visited SIIS and talked with President Yang Jiemian, V. President Chen Dongxiao and Wang Lei, Director of the Department of Academic Administration, about trilateral relations among China, U.S. and EU.

·Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse, senior researchers of the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS, Paris), visited SIIS and talked with researchers of the Department of Russian and Central Asian Studies about Central Asians perspective on China, current affairs in Central Asia and the role of Russia in the region.

·Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Sarah Raine, office of Asia, IISS, visited SIIS and talked with Zhang Zhongxiang, senior researcher of the Department of West Asian and African Studies, Zhang Chun and Zhu Ming about Africa and Sino-African relations.

·Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Michael Swaine, Researcher of the Carnegie International Peace Foundation, visited SIIS and talked respectively with researchers of the Department of World Economic Studies and Yu Xintian, Director of Academic Committee, about Sino-U.S. military security, their cooperation in global economic crisis and Taiwan question.

·Monday, 24 November 2008
Monique Taylor, PhD Candidate, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University Queensland, visited SIIS and talked with Yu Hongyuan, Deputy Director of the Department of International Organization and International Law, and researcher Ye Yu about energy security and energy policy issues.

·Monday, 24 November 2008
Dae-Kyu Yoon, Director of Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam Univesity, visited SIIS and talked with President Yang Jiemian and his colleagues Wang Lei, Director of the Department of Academic Administration and Gong Keyu, Deputy Director of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies, about issues of establishing inter-institutional cooperation.

·Saturday, 22 November 2008
A delegation led by Marvi Memon, member of Pakistan's National Assembly, visited SIIS and talked with President Yang Jiemian about South Asian affairs. Researchers from the Department of South Asian Studies also attended the meeting.

·Friday, 21 November 2008
The fifth Session of the 12th Assembly of the Shanghai Association of International Relations was held and SIIS researchers attended the meeting. The meeting passed the Working Report of the 12th Council of the Shanghai Association of International Relations and the Amendment of the Charter of the Shanghai Association of International Relations and elected members of the 13th Council. SIIS President Yang Jiemian was elected as the President of the Shanghai Association of International Relations.

·Friday, 21 November 2008
Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House, visited SIIS and met with President Yang Jiemian. Afterwards, Robin Niblett delivered a lecture of Transatlantic relations and the future of global role of the EU to the SIIS experts of American and European affairs and all the graduate students.

·Thursday, 20 November 2008
Dr. Dan Steinbock, ICT Research Director at the India, China and America Institute (ICA) and currently visiting scholar of SIIS, delivered a lecture on the ongoing global financial crisis, the new US administration and the US-China relations to the young scholars and all the graduate students.

·Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Yan Chengji, Singaporean Consulate in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with Yan Anlin, Director of the Department of Cross-Straits, HK and Macao Studies, and Wang Ru about Cross-Straits ties.

·Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Kenichiro Toko, official of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with Shao Yuqun, Deputy Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, and Wang Weihua about Chinas South Asia policy and Cross-Straits ties.

·Monday, 17 November 2008
Moon Youg Geun, Vice Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with Gong Keyu, Deputy Director of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies, and Li Ning about the Korean Peninsula and Sino-ROK relations.

·Friday, 14 November 2008
Guo Tiancai, Former KMT legislator of Tainan county visited SIIS and talked with Yan Anlin, Director of the Department of Cross-Straits, HK and Macao Studies, and researchers Wang Ru and Tong Liqun about Cross-Straits relations.

·Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Philip Andrews-Speed, Director of Energy Law and Politics Centre, University of Dundee, visited SIIS and talked with Yu Hongyuan, Deputy Director of the Department of International Organization and International Law, and researchers Ye Yu and Liu Tao about Chinas energy policy.

·Monday, 10 November 2008
Bla Szombati, Director of the Department of Strategic Planning and Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Hungary, and his entourage visited SIIS and talked with V. President Chen Dongxiao, deputy directors Gong Keyu and Wu Chunsi, and assistant professor Ye yu about global political, economic and military impacts on Asia, major actors in Asian affairs, potential threats in the region, and interrelations between energy, climate and international relations.

·Monday, 10 November 2008
Richard Bale, Director of North Asia Commercial Relations, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, visited SIIS and talked with Yu Xintian, Director of Academic Committee, Zhou Zhongfei, Director of the Department of World Economic Studies, and Wang Ru about Cross-Straits trade, especially status quo of investment in Shanghai.

·Monday, 10 November 2008
Senator Timothy Wirth and Kandeh K.Yumkella, Director-General, UN Industrial Development Organization, headed an 8-member group to SIIS and they had talks with SIIS specialists following a lecture on U.S. election and its implications on foreign policy delivered by the senator.

·Wednesday, 05 November 2008
Mohd Nazri ABD Karim, Director of the Research Division of Malaysia Prime Ministers Department, visited SIIS and talked with V. President Chen Dongxiao, Zhao Gancheng, Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, Ye Qing, Acting Director of the Department of International Organization and International Law, Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies, and Zhang Zhexin about Sino-Malaysian relations, regional security and the U.S. Asia policy.

·Monday, 03 November 2008
Christian Ellermann, Doctoral candidate of the Environmental Change Institute of Oxford University,visited SIIS and talked with Yu Hongyuan, Deputy Director of the Department of International Organization and International Law, about climate change negotiation on emission reduction regimes.

·Friday, 31 October 2008
Park Byung Hwan,Senior Researcher, and Kwak Yong Kwon, Researcher, Korea Institute for National Unification, visited SIIS and talked with Gong Keyu, Deputy Director of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies, and researchers Yu Yingli and Zhang Zhexin about DPRK-ROK relations, and DPRKs situation.

·Thursday, 30 October 2008
Dan Steinbock, Research Director of International Business at the India, China and America Institute (ICA), visited SIIS and talked with V. President Chen Dongxiao about U.S. financial crisis and the general election, and separately, he had talks with researchers Ye Yu, Zha Xiaogang and Liu Tao about Sino-U.S.-Indian trilateral economic and foreign relations.

·Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Heungkyu Kim headed a group from Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (ROK) to SIIS and talked with V. President Chen Dongxiao about U.S.-South Korean ties after the US Presidential Election, nuclear-free Korean Peninsular and the Northeast Asian Peace Regime.

·Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Franklin L. Lavin, former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, delivered a lecture at SIIS about U.S. Presidential Election.

·Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Melissa Murphy and Bonnie Glaser, CSIS, visited SIIS and talked with Ma Ying, Director of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies, and Gong Keyu, the deputy director, and researchers Zhang Zhexin and Xue Cheng about Korean nukes.

·Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Pierre Defraigne, Deputy Director General for Trade at the European Commission, delivered a lecture at SIIS on A Global Crisis Calls For a Global Answer:Challenge for China and EU and, afterwards, had a round table meeting with the researchers from the Departments of European Studies, International Organization and Law Studies and World Economic Studies.

·Monday, 27 October 2008
Herta Dubler-Gmelin, former German Minister of Justice, delivered a lecture at SIIS entitled Europes and Chinas Responsibility for the Development of Africa. V. President Chen Dongxiao presided the meeting. Researchers from the Departments of European Studies and West Asian-African Studies, the graduate students of SIIS and EastChinaNormalUniversity attended the meeting.

·Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Jacques de Lisle, Director of FPRI's Asia Program and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, visited SIIS and talked with Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies, and researchers Xue Cheng, Zhang Lu and Xue Lei about Sino-U.S. relations and Asia-Pacific cooperation.

·Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Rudolf Traub-Merz, Director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftungs Office in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with V. President Chen Dongxiao and Director Wang Lei of the Department of Academic Administration about cooperation of the two institutions on convening the Seminar of Global Governance due in the coming year.

·Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The 73rd delegation of the Assistants to American Congressmen organized by US Asian Society visited SIIS and talked with V. President Chen Dongxiao, Director Li Weijian of the Department of West Asian and African Studies, Ye Qing, Acting Director of the Department of International Organization and International Law, Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies, Gong Keyu, Deputy Director of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies, and Xue Cheng, Zhang Zhexin, Ye Yu about China-Middle East relations, post-Olympic diplomacy of China, Chinas security and policy on security, Korean nukes and energy issues.

·Monday, 20 October 2008
Randy Lawrence, Academic Coordinator at U.S. Embassy in China, visited SIIS and talked with Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies, and researchers Xue Cheng and Jiang Xiyuan about Sino-U.S. military ties and arrangement of Americans in concern to visit SIIS.

·Thursday, 09 October 2008
Julia Kubny, professor of German Development Institute, visited SIIS and talked with Ye Yu of the Department of World Economic Studies and Li Ning of the Department of World Economic Studies about Chinese investment in Southeast Asia.

·Thursday, 09 October 2008
Stephen Lillie, British diplomat in charge of Far East affairs, visited SIIS and talked with Ye Jiang, Director of the Department of European Studies, Yan Anlin, Director of the Department of Cross-Straits, HK and Macao Studies, and Zhang Zhexin of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies about the prospect of Cross-Straits relations, EU-China relations and Sino-U.K. relations.

·Monday, 06 October 2008
Ken Toko, political consul of U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with Wu Jinan, Deputy Director of Academic Committee and Senior Fellow of the Department of Japanese Studies, about current affairs of Japan, impacts of Taro Aso as new prime minister on Sino-Japanese relations and Chinas post-Olympic foreign policy.

·Friday, 26 September 2008
Brigitte Fortier, Chief of the Office of Quebec Governor, Canada, and Francois Gaudreau, Quebec representative of Canadian Consulate General in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with Wang Lei, Director of the Department of Academic Administration, and Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies.

·Friday, 26 September 2008
Steve Noerper, Senior Fellow, Director of the Department of Asia Pacific Studies, the East-West Institute, U.S.A., visited SIIS and talked with Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies, Niu Haibing, Xue Cheng, and Zhang Jun about the U.S. East Asia policy.

·Friday, 26 September 2008
Khripunov Igor, Associate Director of Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia, USA, visited SIIS and talked with Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies, Shao Yuqun, Deputy Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, Zhang Yao, Deputy Director of the Department of Russian and Central Asian Studies, and Xue Cheng about the Center for International Trade and Security and Khripunov Igors research on counter terrorism.

·Thursday, 25 September 2008
Ranjit Rai, Vice President of the Indian Maritime Foundation and defense analyst of IDSA, visited SIIS and talked with Shao Yuqun, Deputy Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, and Xue Cheng about Indias oceanic strategy, energy and nuclear issues.

·Thursday, 25 September 2008
Garth Hunt, chief of China Desk, North Asia Division, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, visited SIIS and talked with Yu Xintian, Director of Academic Commission, Wu Chunsi, Deputy Director of the Department of American Studies, and Yu Yingli about Chinas foreign policy and foreign relations, especially about Sino-U.S. relations, Cross-Straits ties and six-party talks.

·Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Swapan Chattopadhyay of Indian Consulate General in Shanghai visited SIIS and talked with Shao Yuqun, Deputy Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, and Wang Weihua about Sino-Indian relations and South Asian situation.

·Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Ken Toko, Politico/economic consul at U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with Niu Haibing, Deputy Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and Lou Xiangfei about Chinas relations with Latin American countries on diplomacy, trade and energy cooperation.

·Wednesday, 17 September 2008
On the seminar held in SIIS, Director of Academic Commission Yu Xintian briefed on the trip of SIIS delegation headed by her to Switzerland, Romania and Hungary. Moreover, Zhang Yao, Deputy Director of the Department of Russian and Central Asian Studies, delivered a presentation on current affairs in Georgia. Finally, President Yang Jiemian reported on the SIIS research schedule for next the academic term and next academic year.

·Thursday, 11 September 2008
Dr. Sheng Lijun, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, visited SIIS and talked about East Asian Cooperation and political situation in Thailand with President Yang Jiemian and Director Ma Ying of the Department of Asia-Pacific Studies.

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