Current 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

Chang, Shan-nan
Education policies, especially those concerning civic education and political socialization; change of the attitudes of Chinese intellectuals toward politics and authority in the context of the broad societal transformation

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, Sing-chen Lydia
Classical Chinese literature, history, and religions
Tufts University

Chiu, Suet Ying
Cultural hybridity in Manchu bannermen tales
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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

Erickson, Andrew
Chinese aerospace development
Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute

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 

Gaustad, Blaine
Socio-cultural and sectarian background of the 1796 Three-Province Uprising in central 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, Frederic
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

Guo, Luoji
Constitutionalism and human rights in China; anti-rightists movement in 1957; Cultural Revolution in Peking University

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 

Ho, Chun-yu
Chinese economy, banking, and industrial organization
Georgia Institute of Technology

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

Hu, Zongze
“Keeping Hope: Encountering and Imagining the National State in a North China Village.”
Harvard University

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

Li, Hua-yu
Stalinism and Maoism; evolution and sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party

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

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, Ning
Ming-Qing fiction, gender studies, economy and literature, comparative literature
Tufts University

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

Muhlhahn, Klaus
History of Modern China (19th and 20th centuries) with specializations in cultural and social history
Indiana University

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

Qin, Feng
Contemporary Chinese art and its relationship to aesthetic, philosophical and cultural influences and schools of thought
Artist and curator, Beijing MOCA

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

Riddell, Malcolm
The political economy of private property in China

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

Song, Mingwei
Modern Chinese literature, the youth culture of modern China, Chinese cinema studies, and theory of the novel
Wellesley College

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

Than, Shiaowei
Lexical semantics, information structure, discourse structure, Mandarin and other languages
Wellesley College

Thompson, Roger R.
Modern Chinese history with an emphasis on community-state ties in late-Qing and early Republican Period
Stanford University

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

Walter, Mariko Namba
History of Yuezhi (Kushana) and Sogdian (Dunhuang & Inner Mongolia) Kingdoms and colonies; Buddhism in the regions according to Chinese dynastic historical records and biographic accounts of eminent monks

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
Fiction, family history, and media econolgy in late-Qing China
 Wellesley College

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, Wei
The impact of the Chinese education system and parental education philosophy and practices on young people in China and in the United States
Harvard Square Consulting, Inc.

Zhao, Meng  
Ceramic Artist; The Philosophy of "water" in Daoism, use of blue and white in Chinese porcelain and the concept of scholar's.
China National Academy of Fine Arts

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

Zheng, Yu
Foreign direct investment, trade, industrial policy, legal system, income inequality
University of Connecticut

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
Tufts University

Zhou, Yanyu  
“Globalization and Its Impact on Chinese Education: Policies, Reforms, and Challenges.”  
University of Maryland


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