ZHANG Sheng is a PhD student in Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University, and previously at the Middle Eastern Studies program at Harvard University, where he joined the AGPT. His areas of research interests include but are not limited to Middle Eastern political history, China-Middle East relations and interactions, China-South Asia relations and historical interactions, contemporary Chinese diplomacy and politics, Chinese ethnic history. In particular, he studies international socialist movements in the twentieth and twenty-first century, Marxist theory, post-colonial theory, and political thoughts of Socialism in China, South Asia, and Middle East.

Zhang is a non-resident research fellow of the Liaoning University Research Base for the Network of China-Japan-Korea Trilateral Cooperation of Think-tanks (NTCT), a Research Fellow of the Chengdu Institute of World Affairs (CIWA), and an Honorary Expert Advisor of the Jeevraj Ashrit Foundation and Research Fellow of the International Peace Institute-Nepal, based at Kathmandu, Nepal.