Zhang Qianfan

Zhang Qianfan (born January,1964; Chinese: 张千帆; pinyin:zhāng qiānfān ) is a constitutional law professor at Peking University Law School, he is an activist in advocating constitutionalism in China and has called for Chihna's general political and judicial reform. He is the author of several academic publications, his book Constitutional System in the West helped introduce western constitutionalism in Chinese.He published his book The Constitution of China A Contextual Analysis in the United States in 2012.

Zhang was born in Nanjing and raised in Shanghai, he is an alumnus of Nanjing University,he studied Solid State Physics as an undergraduate and earned a KASBY scholarship to attend Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, where he earned a PhD degree in biophysics in 1989. After 2 years of doing postdoctoral research, he attended the University of Maryland to study law but dropped out after the first year because he could not afford the tuition.In 1995, He was rewarded a scholarship to attend the University of Texas at Austin and received a PhD degree in Governmental Theory in 1995.

Zhang left the United States and taught law at Nanjing University in 1999. He later became a constitutional law professor at the renowned Peking University Law School in Beijing. He also serves as senior deputy director of Peking University Administrative and Constitutional Law Center and director of the Law School's Congress and Parliamentary Studies Centre.