Dr. Anne-Marie Brady
Professor of Political Science,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Anne-Marie Brady is an Associate-Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, who specializes in researching Chinese domestic and foreign politics. Dr. Brady has written several books and numerous scholarly articles on Chinese politics. She graduated from the University of Auckland with both a B.A. and an M.A in Chinese and Politics. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies: International Relations from the Australian National University.
In 2005, Dr. Brady was awarded a 3-year research grant by the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand to set up an international research team on the topic of China's propaganda system. In 2008, she researched and presented a BBC radio documentary, "The Message from China," which discusses the modernization of the Chinese domestic and foreign propaganda system. Her book following the same theme, Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) was published in the same year. Additionally, she has written Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic (2003) and Friend of China-The Myth of Rewi Alley (2002).