Ni Chen is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Hong Kong. Before joining the faculty, she worked as Assistant Professor at universities in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. in mass communication-journalism at Ohio University in 1992. She is the author and co-author of many refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, and is the co-editor of International Public Relations: A Comparative Analysis (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996). She is also a member of the Editorial Board for American Review of China Studies.