Eastern and Western architectural thinking, aesthetics and technologies, their design meanings in the semiotics framework, and the inherited ecological philosophies; including regional vernacular dwellings and the relationships with sustainable design; Interior/architecture lighting design; how light may change perceptions of the architectural space, and how light is used as a critical design e...
BS Hunan University, China MArch Hunan University MArch Carleton University
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2003
Chinese Art History the artistic exchanges between China and the world in the late-imperial and modern periods material culture, workshop practices, aesthetic pedagogy, Jesuit missionary art, and the relationship between export art and the imperial court during the High Qing.
BA University of California at Berkeley PhD University of California at Berkeley
taught courses in Asian art history at the University of San Francisco and Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts worked at the Las Vegas Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum, and the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
spatially-integrated social sciences, public policy and planning (S3P3). Geography of China (Geog 4037)
12/1995 Ph.D. City and Regional Planning, The Ohio State University (Dissertation: Spatial Equilibrium Models of Systems of Cities with Interurban Transportation Costs; Advisor: Jean-Michel Guldmann) 09/1993 M.A. Economics, The Ohio State University 07/1988 B.S. Geography, Peking University, Beijing, China
08/2007—present: Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University Professorships: o 08/2014—present: James J. Parsons Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University (lifetime) o 08/2009—07/2012: Fred B. Kniffen Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University (3-year term) Administrative Positions: o ...
Translation and interpreting, intercultural communication.
M.A. in Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2010
Chinese history, economic thought, and intellectual exchange between China and the West. Modern China and Economic Thought
Columbia University, Ph.D.
Premodern Chinese literature, comparative literature
Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis, 1999
Political Economy and International Relations: Globalization, development, the history of capitalism. Comparative Politics: East Asia, welfare states, state-society relationships
Ph.D. 2004 Department of Politics, New York University. Who Insures? The Politics of Unemployment Compensation (Chair: Adam Przeworski) M.A. 1999 Department of Politics, New York University B.A. 1996 Department of Political Science, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea
2010 – present Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University 2004 – 2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University 2012 – 2014 Associate Director, International Studies Program, Louisiana State University 2004 – present Faculty Affiliate, Asian Studies Program, Louisiana State University 2014 summer POSCO Visiting Fellow,...
China, Emerging Markets and Entrepreneurial Opportunities.
PhD Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1985 MS Science / Applied Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1979
Emerging Markets and Entrepreneurial Opportunities