Wei-Bin Zhang

Zhang Wei-Bin, Ph.D. (Umeå, Sweden), has been a Professor at APU since 2000. He graduated in 1982 from Beijing University. He got a master’s degree and completed the Ph.D. course at the Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, in September 1987. He completed his dissertation on economic growth theory in Sweden by April 1989. Since then, he researched at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm for 10 years. His main research fields are complexity theory in economics (nonlinear economic dynamics, chaos theory, synergetic economics), ancient Chinese thought, American civilization, and the economic development and modernization of Chinese societies and Japan. He single-authorized 490 academic articles (240 in international peer-reviewed journals), 33 academic books in English by well-known international academic publishing houses.