Rui Zhong

Rui Zhong is the Program Associate for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center. She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in International Studies from Emory University. She has completed coursework at Peking University and earned a graduate certificate at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China. At the Kissinger Institute, she manages Mapping China’s Cultural Genome, a curated project that collects top-level speeches and commentary on China’s global cultural ambitions. Her research interests include China’s role in the East Asian Political Economy and how nationalist interests can impact business, technology, and cultural policies.