Rajen Singh Laishram completed BA Honours in Political Science with Economics and Psychology and MA Politics with specialisation on International Relations from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat and Completed MPhil and PhD in Chinese Studies with specialisation on Chinese foreign policy from the Centre for East Asia Studies of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Laishram teaches modern history of South East Asia and East Asia in the Department of Political Science, Manipur Central University, since 1997. He is a recipient of the Ford Foundation DSA in International Relations during MA in Maharaja Sayajirao University and a visiting fellow at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Kunming, China under the Ford Foundation ASIA Fellows programme.