Visiting Scholars, Fellows, and Associates and Research Interests 2006–2007 |
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Chou Chuing
Prudence,
Visiting Scholar Chou Chuing Prudence is a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center who will hold a Fulbright Fellowship. She received a PhD in Comparative and International Education from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1992, and is a professor in the department of education at National Cheng-Chi University. Her teaching efforts focus on comparative education, classroom management, special education issues in the People’s Republic of China, gender equity education, and other special topics pertaining to higher education. She has worked in the fields of higher education, social service, and women’s studies, and has written and edited numerous books, articles, reports, and papers. During her stay at the Fairbank Center she will conduct research within the broad context of American Doctoral training of China specialists, addressing the ways in which young generations of China experts interpret the role of their US-based doctoral training on their lives—both personally and socially—as well as the impact, as US-trained experts, these individuals have had on China studies in China, Taiwan, and the US. |
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Prem Shankar Jha,
Visiting Fellow Prem Shankar Jha
received his Masters
of Arts Degree in
1961 from Oxford University,
where he specialized
in philosophy, politics,
and economics. He
went on from Oxford
to spend five years
at the United Nations
in New York, then
from 1968 to 1986
was economic editor
with The
Times of India. Later he
held several positions
as editor and correspondent
for additional papers—including
the Hindustan
Times New Delhi, The
Economist,
and The
Business and Political
Observer—and
in 1990, commenced
service as information
adviser to the prime
minister of India.
Since 1990 he has
served as columnist
and consultant to
The
Hindu (India’s
most respected newspaper), The
Hindustan Times,
Outlook, Business
India Intelligence,
The
Business Times,
and The
Khaleej Times. He has written
several books on
political and economic
issues, including
India:
A Political Economy
of Stagnation (Oxford University
Press, 1980), and
his most recent
Twilight
of the Nation State:
Globalization, Chaos,
and War (Pluto
Press London and
University of Michigan
Press, 2006). In
the coming year
he will be working
on his latest project,
a book comparing
the future prospects
of China and India,
outlining the potential
of the two countries
as revealed by economic
projections, and
examining both public
awareness of and
political response
to the conflicts
to which their mutually
rapid growth is
giving birth. |
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Lee Nam Ju,
Visiting Scholar Lee Nam Ju has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at Sungkonghoe University since 2000, and a member of the editorial board for Creation and Criticism (The Quarterly Changbi), one of the most influential literary and intellectual journals in South Korea, since 2004. He received his PhD from Peking University in 1997, where he studied political science and wrote a thesis titled “A Study on Industrial Policy of China in the Era of Economic Reform.” His interests center on the role and influence of NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) in the development of Chinese civil society. He argues that certain branches of civil society are already following a “dependent development” trajectory, and in the future are likely to transform into new entities closely resembling today’s NGOs. His research this year will focus on the development of NGOs in China, NGO activists’ perceptions of the civil society in China, and the Environmental Movement (the most active branch of civil society) in China since 2005. |
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Li
Peisong, Visiting
Fellow Li Peisong is currently Deputy Secretary General and an Associate Research Fellow of the China Reform Forum, a nongovernmental academic organization devoted to the study of domestic and worldwide issues. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Renmin University. He has worked on several important policy proposals to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Vice President Zeng Qinghong, and research projects such as “How to Handle the Challenges of the Banking Sector after China’s Entry into the World Trade Organization” and “The New Path to China’s Peaceful Rise,” which drew wide attention both home and abroad, some of the views and proposals of this project being accepted and adopted by top Chinese leaders. He has translated a great number of economic documents and papers, as well as correspondence between the Chairman of the China Reform Forum and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former US President George Bush, former EU President Romano Prodi, and many others. His research interests center on China’s financial reform, international economics, and the Sino-US relationship—subjects he will study in ever greater detail during his time at the Fairbank Center. |
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Luo
Wen-Jia,
Visiting Fellow Luo Wen-Jia is a former Minister from the Council for Hakka Affairs of Executive Yuan, Taiwan. He studied at National Taiwan University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations in 1989, and at Stanford University, where he was a visiting scholar at the Asia-Pacific Research Center from 1997–1998. A member of the DPP and a prominent advocate of political reform, he worked closely for many years as a sort of “right-hand man” to President Chen Shui-bian—from service as chief strategist for Mr. Chen’s mayoral campaign in Taipei City in 1994, up to the time of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Over the next year he will focus on a research project reviewing the political implications of China and Taiwan’s close economic interdependence before 2008, seeking solutions to the problem of China’s new policies and aggressive economic measures from a Taiwanese perspective. |
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Liselotte
Odgaard, Visiting
Scholar Liselotte Odgaard
is an Associate Professor
of Political Science
at Aarhus University
in Denmark. She specializes
in Asia-Pacific security.
She will be at the
Center from February
through July 2007,
and while here will
be researching
contemporary
Chinese Northeast
Asia policies and
the prospects of coexistence.
Her previous work
includes some highly
regarded analysis
on ASEAN responses
to rising Chinese
power and on the balance
of
power in Asia-Pacific
security. |
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Rudolf
Wagner, Visiting
Scholar Rudolf Wagner is currently both professor and chair of the Sinology department in the Institute of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Munich in 1969, and has been a member of the Berlin Science Academy since 1995. He is a leading specialist on Chinese religious and philosophical thought, and has published numerous studies in both English and German. In the coming year, he will be conducting research on Ernest Major and the first Chinese-language newspapers. |
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Xiao
Xiaosui, Visiting
Fellow Xiao Xiaosui will also
be at the Fairbank Center
from February though
July 2007. Professor
Xiao Xiaosui received
his PhD from Ohio State
University and now teaches
as an Associate Professor
at Hong Kong Baptist
University. He is a
specialist in the field
of communications, and
his research while at
the Fairbank Center
is an
historical and rhetorical
approach to China-West
cultural dichotomies. |
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Xu
Baoyou, Visiting
Fellow Xu Baoyou received an MA in 1985 from Peking University. His field is international and comparative politics. He is currently Chief of the Asia-Pacific Studies Division of the Institute of World Socialism of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of the PRC. His forthcoming book is titled Towards Modernization: Renovation and Transformation in Vietnam (Beijing: Contemporary World Press), and it reflects his specialization in the modern history of Vietnam. This coming year he will continue his research on The Characteristics and Reform of Party-Government Relations in China and Vietnam during the Transition Period from a Planned to a Market Economy. The Fairbank Center is pleased to be extending his initial stay with the Fairbank Center by an additional year. |
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