TU Yichao is an associate professor at Center for American Studies, Fudan University. She received her Ph.D(2007), M.A(2004) and B.A (1998) in international relations, history and journalism respectively.  She did research work at the CUHK in 2006, and at Wheaton College sponsored by Billy Graham Evangelical Association and East Gates International in 2007. Now she is an invited fellow in the 2008 program of Asian Christian Higher Education sponsored by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia.

Dr. Tu is the author of American Evangelicals and International Relations (Shanghai People's Publishing House, Shanghai, forthcoming), as well as several articles and papers on religion and international Relations, religion and politics in the US, and history of Christianity in China.

Research Programs

　　National Social Science Fund: Christianity and Contemporary Sino-U.S. Relations.
　　Scholarship of Shanghai Huangpu River Talents, Shanghai Municipal Human Resource and Social Security Bureau

　　Now or had been one of the key member of six national research programs:
　　Religion and Society in the United States,
　　Religion and the U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era,
　　Religion and Contemporary International Relations,
　　The Study on Religion and China’s National Security,
　　The study on Faith-based NGOs in the United States,
　　Immigration Policy in the United States.