Shulan Zhang got her Doctor Degree from History Department of Peking University in June 2002. From December 2010, She has been a full Professor of School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University. She is also a member of Chinese Federation of South Asian Studies and Association of Asian Scholars.
As a Chinese scholar, she was a Senior Associate Membership of St Antony’s College, Oxford University，UK, from 1st October, 2006 to 30th September, 2007. She was also an Asian Fellowship, a Visiting Scholar in the Center for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, from January 19th 2008 to July 17th 2008.
She has been teaching the courses of Global History, Politics and Diplomacy of the Third World for B.A students, Diplomacy of Contemporary China, Issues of Modern International Relations and Issues of South Asian Political Economy for Master students. She has been mainly doing research on India, especially on India’s political economy and diplomacy, environmental politics and party politics. She has published two Chinese monographs, more than twenty articles in Chinese Core Journals, also has translated and published one English book and two English articles into Chinese.