Zhichao Tang, Ph.D., Senior Researcher. Director of Division of Politics Studies, Director of the Center for Middle East Development and Governance Studies, the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Vice President and Secretary General of the Associate of Chinese Middle East Studies. He mainly studies Middle East politics and international relations, and has published a large number of articles on Middle East politics, Middle East policies of global powers, and the Kurdish issue.  

Major Field of Research:
Politics of Middle East
International relations of the Middle East
Major Power’s Middle East Strategy
Regional Security Issues.
Kurdish Issue
   
Major Publications: 
—Books:
Tangzhichao, A New Approach to Contemporary Kurdish Issue from the Chinese Perspective,Paperback, Canut Publishers,2017
Tang Zhichao,Kurdish Issue:History and the Future,BeiJing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2013.
Tang Zhichao,Jordan(Second Edition), BeiJing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2016. 
Tang Zhichao,Jordan(First Edition), BeiJing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2006.
—Papers：
Tang Zhichao, The Age of Disorder and the New Power Structure in the Middle East,WestAsia and Africa,Issue1,2018.
Tang zhichao, The New trends of  Major powers’ competition and the new pattern in the Middle East-- a new geopolitical picture of the Middle East in the absence of American leadership, in Annual Report on Development in Middle East:The pattern of Middle East of Post-america Era, Yang Guang eds., Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2017, pp.1-31.
Tang zhichao, The Internal Logic and Trends of Russia-Turkey Relations,West Asia and Africa,Issue2,2017.
Tang zhichao, The New Order in the Middle East and China’s Role towards the Kurdish Issue,WestAsia and Africa,Issue2,2015.
Tang zhichao, Constructing the New Middle East Order and China’s Role,Issue5,2014.
Tang Zhichao,Ameica’s strategic contraction from the Middle East and its geopolitical Influence,Contemproray Internations Relations,Issue11,2013.
Tang Zhichao, Middle East upheaval shaping "new Middle East", Contemproray Internations Relations,Issue3,2011.