Pan Nini was born in Chongqing. She holds a Ph.D. inpolitical science and is an associate professor in the Department ofJournalism, School of Communication, East China Normal University. She studiedat Peking University (a Bachelor of law degree in 2003<InternationalPolitical Science>, PhD in Political Science in 2009 <ComparativePolitics>), Waseda University in Japan (PhD in Political Science in 2012) Research fields: Japanese politics, media politics,mass culture and communication
