Dube, Clayton 杜克雷

Senior Fellow
Director Emeritus

USC U.S.-China Institute
3502 Watt Way, ASC 234
Los Angeles, CA  90089-0281

Email: cdube@usc.edu
X: @claydube

Clayton Dube（杜克雷) was the founding director of the USC U.S.-China Institute, heading it for eighteen years from 2006 to his retirement in 2024. The institute was established to focus on the multidimensional U.S.-China relationship. USCI enhances understanding of complex and evolving U.S.-China ties through cutting-edge social science research, innovative graduate and undergraduate training, extensive and influential public events, and professional development efforts. Dube remains involved with the institute as a member of its executive committee and as a senior fellow.

Prior to coming to USC Dube managed UCLA’s Asia Institute, a U.S. Department of Education designated Title VI National Resource Center. He also headed the institute's Asian studies teacher training program and oversaw a variety of instructional, research, and outreach initiatives. Among the projects he directed there were two student-driven web publications, AsiaMedia and Asia Pacific Arts, each of which had more than one million readers annually. At USC he created another successful publication, US-China Today (uschina.usc.edu). Dube has won teaching awards at three universities.

Dube has produced documentary films and consulted on others. He developed the idea for the Assignment: China documentary series on American media coverage of China since the 1940s. He oversaw the team producing the twelve-part series. He wrote USCI’s popular newsletter for more than a decade. He is frequently called upon by American and Chinese broadcast and print media to comment on current affairs. 

Dube first lived in China from 1982 to 1985. His research has been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the Committee for Scholarly Communication with China. His research focuses on how economic and political change in China since 1900 affected the lives of people in small towns, on how Americans and Chinese see each other, and how governments work to influence those views. He’s written teaching guides on Chinese history, many reviews, and served as associate editor for Modern China, an academic quarterly published by Sage Publications, from 1998 to 2002. Dube received the 2012 Perryman Fund Social Studies Educator of the Year award. Dube serves as a director of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. He's been a Center on Public Diplomacy fellow. He's served on the executive committees of the Center for International Studies and the Center for International Business Education and Research. He serves on the Education about Asia editorial board and the 1990 Institute advisory board. He served on the LinkAsia (LinkTV) advisory board. Since 2012, he's moderated Chinapol, a large private discussion list for China specialists in academia, media, government, and research units.

Video presentations:
2011 The State of the Chinese Economy / YouTube version
2012 Taiwan Election / YouTube
2013 The Obama – Xi Sunnylands Summit seen through the press and popular culture in the U.S. and China / YouTube
2013 Tinted Lenses: How Americans and Chinese View Each Other / YouTube version
2014 Building US-China Trust (panel) / YouTube version
2015 #MillennialMinds / YouTube version (Outline of the Future)
2016 Growing Pains, Closing Remarks (USCI | YouTube)
2016 The China Card (USCI | YouTube)
2018 Finding Solutions (USCI | YouTube)
2018 A Time of Uncertainty: the US, Taiwan, and China (USCI | YouTube)
2018 Roundtable Discussion: U.S.-China Trade War (USCI | YouTube)

Dube teaches several courses, including:
China and the World
Contemporary China
China's Cultural Revolution
China in AP World History
East Asia: Origins to 1800
East Asia since 1800