Inaugural recipient of John and Jackie Lewis Fund: Xiaojun Li

Xiaojun Li

Xiaojun Li, a Stanford predoctoral candidate in political science, is the inaugural recipient of a grant from the John and Jackie Lewis Fund to Support Research on Asia.

Xiaojun, whose Ph.D. dissertation chair is Jean Oi, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and director of the Stanford China Program, will use the $1,000 travel grant to present a paper on trade protection in China at a conference in Hong Kong, and a second paper on environmental controls and clean technology at private and state-run companies at a conference in Beijing.

The John and Jackie Lewis Fund was established to recognize the intellectual and moral support they have provided to students from Asia.  John Lewis is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, emeritus, an FSI senior fellow by courtesy, as well as the co-founder of the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on Chinese politics and U.S.-China relations.