Lixin Sun

Sun Lixin joined CISAC as a visiting scholar in September 2013. She is a PhD in Contemporary History of the Middle East from Northwest University, Xi’an, China. She has been associated with the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) since 1998. Now she is an associate research fellow and the deputy director of the department of the developing world studies at CIIS.

In December 2002, she traveled to Israel to conduct research. From September 2003 to February 2004, she was a visiting scholar in the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. From March to July in 2004, she was a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins—Nanjing Center, in Nanjing University, China.

Dr. Sun has published over thirty academic articles, including “The Middle East in 2012: Exacerbation of the Turmoil,” published in the CIIS Blue Book on International Situations and China’s Foreign Affairs, 2013; “Palestinian-Israeli Relations Face a Profound Dilemma,” in the CIIS Blue Book on International Situations and China’s Foreign Affairs, 2013; “No Substantial Breakthrough of the Relationship Between Iran and the U.S.,”  in the Summary Book on International Situation and China’s Diplomacy of CIIS, World Affairs Press, 2010; “The Special Relationship Between Iran and Syria: Reason, Influence and Prospect”, in the Summary Book on International Situations and China’s Diplomacy of CIIS, World Affairs Press, 2009; and “The Middle East Peace Process after Israel’s General Election” in International Studies, 2000.