JOHN GITTINGS

Associate Editor, International Encyclopaedia of Peace (OUP, New York, forthcoming). 

Centre of Chinese Studies, School of Oriental & African Studies, London University:   Research Associate

Oxford Research Group:  Associate

1998 - 2003   The Guardian's East Asia editor, based in Hong Kong and Shanghai

1983 - 1998   The Guardian: foreign desk, foreign leader writer

1976 - 1983   Polytechnic of Central London: senior lecturer in Chinese politics

1971 - 1972   The China Quarterly, Acting Editor

1969 - 1971   London School of Economics, Centre for International Studies

1968 - 1969   Far Eastern Economic Review, China editor

1966 - 1967   University of Chile, Institute of International Studies

1963 - 1966   Royal Institute of International Affairs, research assistant

Education

1958 - 1961   University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MA in Oriental Studies (1st)

1957 - 1958   School of Oriental & African Studies, Civil Service diploma in Chinese language

1950 - 1956   Midhurst Grammar School