Peter Hays Gries is the Lee Kai Hung Chair and founding Director of the at the University of Manchester, where he is also Professor of Chinese politics. He studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on China and the United States.
Biography
Peter Gries was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong, Washington, DC, Tokyo, and Beijing. He later earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Asian Studies at Middlebury and Michigan, and a PhD in politics from Berkeley. After a two-year postdoc at Ohio State, he was assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder for five years. He then spent eleven years at the University of Oklahoma, where he founded and directed the Institute for US-China Issues, and its two signature programs, the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, and the . Gries joined the University of Manchester as Professor of Chinese Politics in August 2017. After an autumn of fundraising and a £5M donation endowing a new China Institute, in December 2017 he became the Lee Kai Hung Chair and founding Director of the , which was formally launched in May 2018. MCI promotes mutual understanding in UK-China relations. Its two signature programs are the , and the . Gries studies the causes and consequences of how Chinese feel and think about the world—and how the world feels and thinks about China. He is particularly interested in the dynamics of mis/perception and mis/trust, with an eye towards the reduction of international conflict.
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Articles (selected)
“,” China Quarterly. Gries & Wang.
“,” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34. Gries & Yam.
“: What country feeling thermometer data can teach us about the drivers of American and Western European foreign policy,” Political Research Exchange, 2.1. Gries, et al.
“: Chinese Nationalism, the 2020 Presidential Elections, and U.S.-China Tensions Spell Trouble for Cross-strait Relations,” World Affairs 183.1. Peter Gries and Tao Wang.
“ How narratives of ‘power transition’ shape great power war or peace,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32.4. Gries & Jing.
“,” Frontiers in Psychology, 8. Jing, Gries, et al.
“” Social Science Quarterly, 98.1.
“ : How Atheists and Agnostics Think about Religion and Politics,” Politics and Religion, 10. Clements & Gries.
“,” Nations and Nationalism, 22.3. Carrico & Gries.
“: How Ideology Divides Americans over Immigration and Foreign Aid,” Latin American Research Review, 51.3.
“: The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Controversy, 2012-2013,” Journal of Contemporary China, 25.99. Gries, Steiger & Wang.
“,” Japanese Journal of Political Science, 17.1. Gries & Sanders.
“: Subliminal Primes of Image Attributes Shape Foreign Policy Preferences,” Political Psychology, 37.3. Castano, Bonacossa, & Gries.
“: How American Popular Culture Shapes Chinese Views of the ‘Beautiful Imperialist,’ an Experimental Analysis,” The China Quarterly, 224. Gries, Sanders, Stroup, & Cai.
“,” Political Science Quarterly, 130.1.
“ : How Ideology Divides Americans over China,” Journal of East Asian Studies 14.
“: Party Identification, Ethnicity, and Cross–Strait Relations,” Japanese Journal of Political Science, 14.1 : 73–96. Gries & Su.
“: Beyond Forced-Choice Measures of Religious Belief,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51.4. Gries, Su & Schak.
“,” Journal of East Asian Studies, 12.
“ How ideology impacts American attitudes and policy preferences toward China,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 12.1. Gries, Crowson & Cai.
“: Contact, media exposure, and American attitudes towards China” Journal of Social Issues, 67.4. Gries, Crowson, & Cai.
“.” Journal of Social Issues, 67.4 . Chiu, Gries, Torelli, & Cheng.
“: Structures and Consequences of Chinese National Identity,” The China Quarterly, 205. Gries, Zhang, Crowson, & Cai.
“: Beyond personality, ideology, and media exposure,” Journal of Contemporary China, 19.64. Gries, Crowson, & Sandel.
“: China, the U.S., and the Korean War, an experimental analysis,” Journal of East Asian Studies, 3.3. Gries, et al.
“,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, 53.2.
“: Colonialism, the tributary system, and China-Japan-Korea relations in the Twenty-First Century,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 9.2. Gries, et al.
“,” World Literature Today, 81.5.
“,” Asian Security, 2.2.
“,” East Asia: An International Quarterly, 22.4.
“,” The China Quarterly, 184.
“: Is a ‘China Threat’ inevitable?” European Journal of International Relations, 11.2.
“,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, 49.3.
“: Evidence for the polarizing effect of entitativity,” Political Psychology, 24.3. Castano, Sacchi, & Gries.
“,” Journal of Contemporary China, 11.30. Gries & Peng.
