Fairbank Center Associates in Research
Allan, Sarah K
Pre-Han China: philosophy, history, archaeology,
paleography
Dartmouth College
Andrews-Minehan, Bridie
History
of medicine in China,
Chinese modernity
Bentley
College
Bai, Qianshen
Ming-Qing Chinese art
Boston University
Berliner, Nancy
Chinese
art, particularly 18th,
19th and 20th centuries;
Chinese architecture;
vernacular arts and
architecture
Peabody-Essex
Museum
Bickford, Maggie
Song manuscript culture; Imperial Song management of China’s
cultural legacy; auspicious visuality in China
Brown University
Bush, Susan H.
Chinese art theory and criticism; Six Dynasties / Song-Jin art;
Buddhist birth stories Chang,
Leo S.
Huang-Lao thought, recent developments
in Han Fei-zi research
Regis College
Chang, Liu
Social and economic history of the
19th and 20th-century China
Christopher Newport University
Chen, Calvin
Economic reform, local networks,
and the politics of production in
contemporary China
Mount Holyoke College
Chen, Yi-zi
China: rural reform, economic reform, political reform
Cheng, Ifan
What history can do to illuminate the power relations in
East Asian political institutions, and how ideas played the role of changing
those relations?
Independent researcher
Cheng, Linsun
Chinese economic history,
Republic of China
University of
Massachusetts – Dartmouth
Chiang (Francis), Sing-chen Lydia
Classical Chinese literature, history, and religions
Tufts University Chou, Diana Yeongchau
Painting taste in the 13th and 14th centuries China and
Japan; women painters of the 20th century China
John Carroll University
Chu, David
The
ongoing impact of market reforms
and WTO membership on China’s
healthcare services and hospital
accounting system
College of the Holy Cross
Coble, Parks M.
Modern China; Sino-Japanese Wars, 1937 – 1945; modern
Chinese business history
University of Nebraska
Cohen, Joan Lebold
Contemporary Chinese art and politics
Independent Scholar
Conceison, Claire A.
Chinese spoken drama; intercultural performance; Asian American
theatre
Tufts University Del Gais, Deborah
Chinese painting studies, especially Song and Yuan paintings;
Song studies in general; Chinese art history, archaeology, history, and
literature; Japonisme
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum of Art Dematté,
Paola
Chinese archaeology (Neolithic); Chinese paleography; rock
art; Jesuits in China
Rhode Island School of Design Dillon,
Nara
Welfare and social policy in Republic
China as well as the PRC
Bard College
Dimitrov, Martin
Federalism, corruption and the
rule of law in China and Russia
Dartmouth College
Ditmanson, Peter
Song, Yuan, and Ming cultural history,
neo-confucianism, Ming, Ming historiography
Colby College
Elleman, Bruce A.
Sino-Soviet diplomatic relations; Chinese military and naval
history; International history
US Naval War College
Feng, Yu
Comparative philosophy, Chinese
consumer studies
Harvard University
Fessenden, Anne
Assemblage out of China: painting,
poems, photos, encounters (manuscript)
Fewsmith, Joseph
Contemporary Chinese politics,
cross-strait relations
Boston University
Fitzgerald-Huber, Louisa G.
Chinese archaeology as a means of reconstructing the history
of Neolithic cultures and their interaction; the Erlitou and Shang cultures;
contact between China and the Eurasian steppe population groups ca. 2000
BCE
Fravel, M. Taylor
China’s foreign and security policy
MIT Frechette, Ann Irene
Migration, China, minority relations, family
Fu, Jun
Chinese foreign policy, international
trade and investment with respect
to China, WTO negotiations and impact
on China
Peking University
Fung, Mark
The growing political dichotomy between
institutional and financial market reforms
in China
Giersch, C. Pat
Qing China’s frontier history; Modern China’s
ethnic and national identity
Wellesley College
Gilmartin, Christina
Localism, Reform, and Resistance
in a Rural Chinese Community (1940–2005)
Northeastern University
Godley, Michael
Overseas Chinese, Chinese trans-nationalism,
Chinese intellectual history
Monash University
Goldstein, Jonathan
Sino-Judaic Research
University of West Georgia
Goldstein, Steven
Domestic
politics of Taiwan’s
relations with the Mainland
Smith College
Gottschang, Thomas
Economic history of North
China and Manchuria; Systematic change
in the contemporary economies of China
and Vietnam, particularly in banking
College of the Holy Cross
Grant, Frederick
The monopoly merchants of Guangzhou,
the present relevance of historical
American trade with China
Law Office of Frederic D. Grant,
Jr.
Guo, Lance
Political Economy of Reform in China
Bowdoin College
Hartford, Kathleen
Chinese political economy (reform
of state enterprises; high tech),
IT, Telecom, Networks applications
impact
UMASS/Boston
Hatfield, Donald
Politics of culture in contemporary
Taiwan, human rights, indigineity,
sexualities, Taiwan popular culture
and religion
College of William & Mary
Hong, Jun-hao
Communication and social change in China; media, politics,
and ideology of China; the impact of Internet on China
State University of New York at Buffalo
Huss, Ann
Modern
and contemporary Chinese literature;
in particular, 1930s “New Sentimentalist” author
Shi Zhecu and contemporary Hong Kong
author Li Bihua
Wellesley College
Ikels, Charlotte
Impact of economic reform on urban life, aging, bioethics
Case Western Reserve University
Inglis, Alister
Pre-modern Chinese literature, art
and calligraphy
Simmons College
Jang, Scarlett
Book culture of the Ming; Ming imperial women; Ming art criticism;
Ming Palace Eunuchs and inner court material culture
Williams College
Jefferson, Gary
Chinese
economy, R&D and technology
transfer, enterprise conversion, energy
Brandeis University
Jin, Xuefei
Fiction and poetry about
the Chinese diaspora
Boston University
Joseph, William A.
Contemporary Chinese politics and
ideology
Wellesley College
Kaufman, Joan Ann
China – AIDS; China – population / family planning;
China – health; China – gender; Vietnam – AIDS
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Keenan, Barry
Local educated elites
in China, 1895–1911; the educational
history of modern China
Denison University
Klein, Donald W.
Chinese and Japanese foreign relations
Tufts University
Knaus,
John Kenneth
US relationship
with Tibet — historical and
current, and future prospects Knight, Deirdre Sabina
Modern Chinese literature and culture; comparative literary
study of ethics and bioethics; comparative philosophy, women’s
fiction
Smith College
Kong, Xiang-ji
The relationship between
Sino-Japan of late Qing; the reform
of 1898; the political history of
late Qing (1860-1911)
Kuo,
Ya-pei
Modern Chinese Intellectual
and Political History
Tufts University
Kuoshu, Harry
Chinese film, film studies, cultural
studies, modern Chinese literature
and culture
Northeastern University
Lee, De-nin Deanna
Chinese painting, especially handscrolls; Five Dynasties – Ten
Kingdoms period
Bowdoin College
Li, Alan Aimin
Socio-cultural aspects of linguistics;
language, society and culture
Dartmouth College
Li, Jiansheng
Environmental studies; economic
development and social change; kinship
and family, business and culture
Li, Ronghong
Sino-Tibetan relations in the Qing
Dynasty; Ethnic conflict/interaction
in the early 1900s
Harvard University
Lin, Chun
Modern China: politics, institutions,
culture, development
London School of Economics and
Political Science
Lin, Pauline
Pre-presentations of Six Dynasties
rural spaces; Six Dynasties poetry,
art and cultural history
Yale University
Lipman, Jonathan
Islam
and Muslims in China: comparative
modern history—China, Korea,
Japan; Chinese women’s history
Mount Holyoke College
Levy, Richard J.
Village Elections and Corruption; Corruption in Reform China;
Political Thought of Mao Zedong
Salem State College
Liu, He-ping
Art and society in Northern Song China
Wellesley College
Liu, Hui-hua
Globalization and China
rise
Airvana
Liu, Nien-ling
The Intellectual and Literary Scene of China
Self-Employed
Lu, Chun-ling
Reforming health system
in China
Harvard Global Health Initiative
Lu, Yan
Twentieth-century Chinese history, especially
history of Sino-Japanese relations. Current research topic: media
reforms in China
University of New Hampshire
Lufkin, Felicity
Folk art in modern China
Ma, Yan
Visual literacy and new media in China; Critical and cultural
studies of new media in China; Technology and democracy in Chinese media
and information flow
University of Rhode Island
McCarthy, Susan
Chinese politics in general; state-society
relations; social movements; ethnic,
religious and national identity
in China
Providence College
Menegon, Eugenio
Ming-Qing history; Chinese-Western cultural relations; Religion
in China – Christianity
Boston University
Morehouse, Robert H.
Taiwan issues; wartime collaboration between Chinese and
the Japanese occupation
Mou, Sherry Jeng-yunn
Classical
Chinese literature; women’s
images in literature; historical
narratives; inter-textuality between
literary and historical texts; Taiwanese
literature
Wellesley College
Nakajima, Chieko
Modern Chinese social history,
history of health and medicine in
a non-western country, Sino-Japanese
relations in the 20th century
Assumption College
Nedostup, Rebecca A.
Government and religion
in Republican China; formulation
of religion as a modern category;
Jiangsu local history; Republican
cultural history; cultural history
of displacement and exile in China
and Taiwan (1937–1950s)
Boston College
Ogden, Suzanne
Development, Democracy, and Culture; Stakeholders and River
Basin Management
Northeastern University
Paine, Sarah C. M.
Geopolitics of the Far East
US Naval War College Perdue, Peter
Environmental history of China; Central Eurasian history
MIT
Pye, Lucian
Comparative politics, especially
East Asia, and particularly China
MIT
Queen, Sarah A.
Chinese intellectual history
Connecticut College
Rand, Peter
China: 20th century, US journalists
Boston University Raz, Gil
History of Chinese religion, especially Daoism between Han
and Tang
Dartmouth College
Reardon, Lawrence C.
Chinese foreign economic policy; Chinese development strategy;
Chinese elite politics
University of New Hampshire Reeves,
Caroline
Late Qing and early Republican
China: Issues of citizenship, philanthropy,
social and civic participation
Williams College
Reinhardt, Anne
Qing and 20th century Chinese history; Western imperialism
in China, technology, work, daily life
Williams College
Remick, Elizabeth J.
Local state-building in China; regulation and taxation of
prostitution in Republican China; local tax and public finance
Tufts University
Ropp, Paul S.
Ming-Qing gender relations as seen in literary and historical
sources; Modes of political dissent in imperial China
Clark University
Rudolph, Jennifer M.
Urban history of Taipei, with a focus on place identity;
Integration of Taiwan into the Qing Empire; Administrative reform in
late Qing and Republican periods
University at Albany, SUNY Schena, Patrick John
Chinese corporate finance and capital markets; corporate
governance in greater China; political economy of Chinese finance
Tufts University Schrecker, John
Sino-Western and Sino-American relations; traditional Chinese
social theory; Major current project: Biography of Anson Burlingame
Brandeis University Scott, Janet Lee
Chinese Society, Material Culture, Hong Kong
Retired
Shen Yuanyuan
Environmental
protection; women and marriage,
consumer protection in China’s
transformation from a plan to
a market economy
Brandeis University
Sinn, Elizabeth
Modern Chinese history; Hong Kong history; history of the
Chinese diaspora; business, social and intellectual history
Retired history professor
Sitaraman, Srinivasan
International law of human rights,
international organizations, and
globalization with concentration
on China and South Asia
Clark University
Smith, Joanna Handlin
Art of doing good in late Ming China; teachers and friends
in early Qing China
Harvard University
Smith, Kidder
Early Chinese history
Bowdoin College
Sobin, Leila F.
Short Stories about China in the
1970s
Stewart, Gwendolyn
Chinese political leadership; strategic
questions in foreign policy, especially
in the Asia-Pacific Region
Harvard University
Stranahan, Patricia
Evaluation of power of Chinese
Communist Party, 1930s-50s; Communist
Party in Guangdong and Hong Kong,
1940-50s
United Board for Christian Higher
Education in Asia
Suleski, Ronald
China in the republican period;
Chinese culture and human life
Harvard University
Taylor, Jay
Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo; US – China – Taiwan
relations
Writer
Teng, Emma
Qing
travel writing: Qing accounts
of Taiwan; visual representations
of the Qing frontiers; women’s
studies; Asian-American Studies
MIT
Terrill, Ross
Chinese politics; Chinese foreign relations
Author
Thompson, Roger R.
Modern Chinese history with an
emphasis on community-state ties
in late-Qing and early Republican
Period
Stanford University
Thornton, Patricia
Modern Chinese government and politics
Trinity College
To, Wing-kai
Social and cultural history of
the Pearl River Delta in South China;
migrations of Chinese from South
China to North America, focusing
on New England and Boston
Bridgewater State College
Turner, Karen Gottschang
Law and Punishment in Early China; Vietnamese Women Veterans;
Documentary Film and Criticism
College of the Holy Cross
Tuttle, Gray
Influence of nationalism
on Asia historiography; Sina-Tibetan
relations (especially Qing and contemporary);
Buddhist ideology in Asia politics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Wachman, Alan M.
Chinese Foreign Policy, Sino-US Relations, Taiwan
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Wang, Dong
Chinese Foreign Relations,
Nationalism, Higher Education, Christianity,
and Intellectual History
Gordon College
Wang,
Li
Daoist inner alchemy and self-cultivation; Chinese philosophy
and religion; history of book printing and libraries in China; Chinese
martial arts
Brown University Library Wang, Li-hua
Women and poverty; women and globalization; women and state
Northeastern University
Wang, Lingzhen
Gender studies; modern and contemporary
Chinese literature, films and history
Brown University
Wang, Lu-tao Sophia
History
of Taiwan’s economic policy Wang, Shu-jen
Global copyright governance; film piracy and distribution
in China; media globalization
Emerson College Watt, John
R.
Development of modern medicine
and public health in China 1900–1949,
with special reference to 1937–1945
war period
Primary Source
Weidenbaum, Rhoda S.
The biography of Zhou Enlai; The Jews of China
Weitz, Ankeney
Social history of art collecting
in China; material culture studies
Colby College
Weller,
Robert
Religion, environment, civil society issues in China and
Taiwan
Boston University
Widmer, Ellen
Networks of Chinese women writers
of the Ming and Qing; late-Ming
publishing; late-Qing novel and
its connection to travel
Wesleyan University
Wiersma, Grace Claire
Sino-Tibetan linguistics; Yunnan Bai; Cantonese and written
Chinese; digital libraries; multilingual data processing and representation
MIT Libraries
Woo, Margaret
Legal reforms in modern China; gender equality; labor rights
Northeastern University Wu,
Shengqing
Classical lyric modernities: poetics,
gender, and politics in modern China.
Wesleyan College
Wu, Silas
History of Christian revivals in
20th century China; Chinese Christian
world missions
Boston College
Xu, Yamin
Social
Origins of China’s
modern authoritarian state
Le Moyne College
Xue, Yong
Agrarian urbanization: social and economic changes in Jiangnan
from 10th to 19th century
Suffolk University
Yahuda, Michael Benjamin
Sino-Japanese relations; China’s foreign relations
Professor emeritus Yao, Shu-ping
Chinese Intellectual and the Cultural Revolution
Researcher Ye, Weili
The
20th century China’s
intellectual, cultural and social
history
UMASS – Boston
Zamperini, Paola
Pre-modern and modern Chinese literature; Chinese popular
culture, gender and women studies
Amherst College
Zevik, Emma
Sichuan Studies; Qiangzu Ethnic Studies; Streetsongs
Lesley College
Zhang-Gottschang, Suzanne
China, women, medicine, anthropology
Smith College
Zhao,
Quan-sheng
Chinese politics and foreign policy; Japanese politics and
foreign policy; East Asian international relations
American University
Zhao, Suisheng
Chinese nationalism in the post-Cold
War World; Chinese politics; Chinese
foreign policy
Colby College
Zhong, Xue-ping
Modern Chinese literature and culture, literacy and critical
theories, political economy of cultural studies, women’s and gender
studies; Chinese intellectual history
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