Dr Liu Naiya was born in Huai’an Jiangsu Province. He received his Doctoral Degree in Peking University in 2000. He is now serving as Executive Director of South African Studies Centre, CASS. From 2011 to 2013, he was a senior diplomat at Chinese Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 2007, as a visiting scholar, he visited Harvard, MIT, Yale, UCLA，University of California.         Dr. Liu has, so far, published approximately 50 articles and chapters in books in his African field studies. He has also edited 14 books pertaining to the world famous novels. Here names a few as follows:

(i) Reflections on the Political and Social Cause of Somalia Pirates, West Asia & Africa, 2009, Vol.6

(ii) Reflections on the Nature of Sino-African Relations, West Asia & Africa, Vol. 8, 2006

(iii) The Latest Development on South African Partisan System in the Context of ANC’s Borrowing China’s Experience, West Asia & Africa, Vol. 6, 2002

(iv) Sino-African Cooperation in Human Resource Development in the Context of Globalization, West Asia & Africa, Vol. 5, 2002

(v) Agricultural Cooperation among developing Countries, West Asia & Africa, Vol. 5, 2001

(vi) Modernizations and Migrant Labor in South Africa: from Historical Perspective, West Asia & Africa, Vol.1, 2001

(vii)The History of African Colonialism, co-editor & author, Peking University Publishing House, Beijing, 1999

(viii) Sino-African Economic and Trade Relations, sponsored by China’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, 1999/2000

(ix) The Yearbook of Chinese History Studies (1990--2002), the part of Africa, Beijing Sanlian Publishing House

(x) Studies on African Political Parties, East China Normal University Publishing House, 1998

(xi) The Operative Mechanism of Botswana’s Political Party System and the Reasons of Its long- Standing Stability, West Asia & Africa, Vol. 3, 1995

(xii) Nigeria Actively Encourages Foreign Investment, West Asia & Africa, Vol.5, 1995