Visiting Scholars, Fellows, and Associates and Research Interests 2007–2008 |
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Chang Xinxin 常欣欣,
Visiting Scholar Appointed a visiting scholar from June to December 2007, Dr. Chang received her PhD in 2000 from the Party School of the CCP. Her work at the Fairbank Center is on China’s “Rise” in the International Community from the Perspective of China’s Domestic Institutions. China’s leaders have never fully expressed the domestic considerations of the country’s international rise, although the push for a “harmonious society,” an idea pushed by the current leader President Hu Jintao, begins to address this issue. A question to be asked is: What domestic institutional arrangements can ensure the country’s integration into the international economic system while encouraging domestic stability and harmony? Since China is also in the midst of flux and internal economic reforms, confronting the dynamic international sphere becomes especially complex. |
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Dou Xinyuan 竇新元,
Visiting Scholar Dr. Dou received his PhD degree in 2004. He is currently serving with the Economic and Trade Commission of Guangdong Province in China. At Harvard he will be assisting Professor Ezra Vogel in his work on Deng Xiaoping. Dr. Dou is familiar with the era of opening and reform in China and is also familiar with the current research about Deng. Dr. Dou will be here from September 2007 to June 2008. |
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Hu Lin Hui-ying 林惠英,
Visiting Fellow Hu Lin Hui-ying has taught at Taiwan Normal Provincial College. She was the founder and first director of the Mental Hygiene Center at that University and is also a board member of the National Women’s League of Taiwan. She has much diplomatic experience in traveling and living abroad with her husband, Ambassador Hu Weijen, and is an accomplished public speaker. She has published on the behavioral problems of college students. |
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Hu Weijen 胡為真, Visiting
Fellow Ambassador Hu has been the ambassador from Taiwan to Germany and Singapore. He has just left his Singapore posting and will be at the Fairbank Center at Harvard to reflect on Taiwan’s Educational Policies and Chinese Culture. He was at Harvard earlier in his career, and the stay resulted in his book From Nixon to Clinton: Evolution of the One-China Policy, which was published in Chinese and is often used as a textbook in university courses. Recently as ambassador, he was concerned with domestic politics on Taiwan and the broader implications of internal policies, so he plans to take time while at the Fairbank Center to review recent developments in these areas of concern. |
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Huang Fanhua,
Visiting Scholar Dr. Huang received his PhD in economics from Nanjing University in 2002 and is currently Professor of International Trade at Nanjing. While a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center, Dr. Huang will explore China’s rapid growth as a leading location for the assembly of a broad range of manufacturing goods and why this growth has not lead to a more robust trade surplus. Questions he will explore include: What and how great is the gain and loss in trade for China and the US under the new trade pattern of vertical specialization? What trade innovations might help these two countries avoid the imbalance of trade dispute? What effects does China’s new trade pattern bring to other Asian countries? His project is titled Trade Benefits, Pattern Innovation, and China-US Trade. |
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Kim In-Kyu 金寅圭, Visiting
Scholar Dr. Kim will be at Harvard from August 2007 through June 2008. He received his PhD from Peking University in 2004. His work at Harvard will focus on Examining Models to Analyze Free Trade Agreements in East Asia. Specifically, he labels his work as The Impacts of CJKFTA (Free Trade Agreements of China, Japan, and Korea)—a CGE (computational general equilibrium) Model Analysis. Regional analysis has proliferated with the introduction of FTAs over the past decade in East Asia, as well as in other parts of the globe. The widespread use of quantitative tools for performing simulation study on the impacts of FTAs include the gravity model, which centers on the impacts of trade expansion and trade structures. This investigation will scrutinize the impact of the relative FTAs on gross domestic product, capital accumulation, welfare, and trade of the members. It will compare the relative advantages and disadvantages of CJKFTA with respect to the three East Asian nations as well as the rest of the world. |
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Li Nan 李楠, Visiting
Scholar Dr. Li’s PhD is from the University of New South Wales, received in 2007. He will be at Harvard from August 2007 to August 2008. His research topic is Chinese Television, 1958–2008: A History of Media Agenda Setting and Public Policy Adjustments. The history of media agenda setting of Chinese TV reflects the shifting power relations among the state, the market, and emerging civil society. The state of Chinese TV at any given time is the result of negotiations and accommodation of the interests of the three institutional forces. This has allowed Chinese TV to develop a triple identity as a state agent, a market actor, and a civil society player. The state has determined policies and regulations for TV broadcasting. The market has related to audience ratings and commercial income. The third player, emerging civil society, sets the moral standards by checking on the failures of the state and market on the one hand, and serving the rights of the audience-as-citizen on the other. Thus Chinese TV is one servant for three masters. Dr. Li will use new data and recent social events to try to determine the future course in the near term of TV broadcasting in China. |
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Julia Killin Murray, Visiting
Scholar Dr. Murray received her PhD from Princeton University and currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin. She is a specialist in the history of Chinese art. Her research while at Harvard will be on Mysteries of Kongzhai: Relic, Representation, and Ritual at a Shrine to Confucius. This shrine formerly stood 25 miles west of Shanghai, where his 34th generation lineal descendant allegedly buried the master’s robe and cap in 606 BCE. That was over a thousand years after Confucius’ death and far from his home in Qufu, Shandong. In the 17th and 18th centuries, local scholars and officials built a Tomb of the Robe and Cap, halls for sacrificing to Confucius and his father. They also constructed halls for pictures, imperial calligraphy, and commemorations of meritorious patrons. Unfortunately, branded a relic of feudalism, it was demolished in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution. This research will reconstruct the history of this Kongzhai Temple complex, and will argue that its items and activities were media for religious expression, with counterparts in Buddhism, Daoism, and popular-deity cults. |
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Sun Hongsheng 孫洪升, Visiting
Scholar Dr. Sun received his PhD from Yunnan University in 1998. This year his research will be on Chinese economic history. His recent book was on the Tea Economy of the Tang and Song Dynasties (in Chinese). At that time tea was being developed as a commodity, and his book tried to determine the original place of production and the quantities produced. Other aspects investigated were the circulation of the tea as a commodity, the amount of consumption during these important historical periods, and the body of laws and regulations crafted by the governments of the time to regulate and maintain its quality. Dr. Sun is currently teaching at the Central University of Finance and Economics. |
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Tang Xiaosong 唐小松, Visiting
Scholar Dr. Tang will be at Harvard from October 2007 to September 2008. His PhD was received in 2001 from Fudan University. Funding will be provided by the China Scholarship Council. His research will be on China’s Diplomacy and Sino-American Relations as Reflected and Expressed in International Relations Theory. Both examination and evaluation of US policies toward China in the past few decades will be carried out based on some of Tang’s already published research. IRT is now accepted by many scholars in China as the underpinning for studies of policy and diplomacy. |
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Wang Chuanxing 王傳興, Visiting
Scholar Dr. Wang will be at Harvard from September 2007 to August 2008. He received his PhD in 2001 from Fudan University, and he currently teaches at Tongji University in Shanghai. His research project is The Culture and Evolution of the International System: A Study of International Actors and Non-Traditional Security. These days traditional international relations theories are strongly criticized as being static studies which fail to reveal the more complicated and diverse logic of international relations. How did the contemporary international system evolve? What were its determinants? Is there a homogeneous or a heterogeneous system of IR? Regardless of the system, there is evolution, and outcomes depend on the international actors in the system. To explore the relationships of these factors, some case studies will be analyzed. |
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Zhang Yuquan 張宇權, Visiting
Scholar Dr. Zhang will be at the Fairbank Center from August 2007 to August 2008. He received his PhD degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 2001 and he currently teaches at the University. He is funded by the China Scholarship Council. His research is a Comparative Study of Sino-American Cultural Diplomatic Strategy in the 21st Century: Harmonious World and Democratic Alliances? The Chinese government has proposed following a diplomatic strategy based on the slogan of a “harmonious world,” in contrast to the “democratic alliances” approaches of the United States. Scholars typically focus their work on one of these two major players and rarely use a multi-polar perspective. Dr. Zhang’s research asks: What is the functionality, origin, and feasibility of these two strategies as they interact? What policy recommendations might be made for both China and the US in this arena? |
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Dong Guosong 董國松, Visiting
Associate Mr. Dong is a PhD candidate at Dalian Maritime University. He will be at Harvard from September 2007 through June 2008. His work at Harvard will be supervised by Professor Vanessa Fong. He is researching higher education in the United States from several perspectives. He will look at teacher education for urban and multicultural contexts and how to promote equal educational opportunities. He will also examine Educational Transfer and Globalization from an International Comparative Perspective. Human resources management is another area of interest, specifically, how to provide leadership for adult learning and development and how to support teachers and principals in their professional development. He also wants to explore organizational behavior with a particular interest in age discrimination. |
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Lin Tingjin 林挺進, Visiting
Associate Mr. Lin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. As a Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher this year at Harvard, his work will be supervised by Professor Elizabeth Perry. His research is on Explaining Intra-Provincial Inequality in China: The Roles of Institutions and Provincial Leaders. In China, education is the main channel for social mobility and probably the most important factor for the rural population. Due to great regional disparities, the wealthy are more likely to be better educated than the less affluent, directly contributing to social inequality and wealth disparity. Research has found that intra-provincial disparities are significantly greater than inter-provincial ones. Because of the over-decentralization of educational budgeting and the absence of effective transfer systems within the local governments, regional disparities of economic development have definitely led to unevenness in educational investments. |
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