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Adam Smith

美国 University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Center for East Asian Studies

Arthur Waldron

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lauder Professor of International Relations Department of History


Harvard University, Ph.D History, 1981; B.A. History and Science, Summa cum laude, Valedictorian, 1971. Study abroad: England (Winchester College 1966-67); France (Alliance Française, Paris, 1969); USSR (Leningrad State University, 1970); Taiwan (National Normal University, 1971-73); Japan (Naganuma School, 1974). Knowledge of Chinese, Russian, French, Japanese and other languages.


Lauder Professor of International Relations, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania (1997- Director of Asian Studies, American Enterprise Institute (1996-2003) Commissioner, US-China Security Review Commission (2001-2003) Professor of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval War College (1991-97) Adjunct Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University (1992-97) Assistant Professor of Histor...

Grace Wu

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer in Chinese Language Center for East Asian Studies


M. Ed in TESOL, Temple University


Has been teaching Taiwanese for PLC since 1993. Has been teaching Mandarin Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations since 1994.

Hsiao-wen Cheng

美国 University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Center for East Asian Studies


Gender & Sexuality Chinese Religions and Intellectual History Chinese Medical History Premodern Chinese Anecdotal Writing Song Dynasty (960-1276)


PhD, History, University of Washington, Seattle MA, Chinese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University BA, Chinese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University

Melvin Chih-Jen Lee

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer in Chinese Language Center for East Asian Studies


Chinese Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Contemporary Chinese Films and Literature


2005 M.A. in Asian Studies, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, South Orange NJ 1998 B.A. in English Language and Literature, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan


2005 – Lecturer of Chinese Language, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia PA 2005 – 2006 Adjunct Professor, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, South Orange NJ 2003 – 2005 Teaching Assistant, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, South Orange NJ

Mengxi Jiang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Program Assistant Center for East Asian Studies

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor of East Asian Studies Center for East Asian Studies


the art, architecture, and archaeology of China, Korea, and Japan from the 2nd through 14th centuries, particularly interested in how Chinese art is borrowed, adopted, adapted, and reinterpreted at China's borders.


PhD, Harvard University, 1981


Affiliations at Penn are: the Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilization, History of Art, Architecture, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

席文Nathan Sivin

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor Emeritus of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science Center for East Asian Studies


Experimental 18-month course in Chinese, U. S. Army Language School, 1954-1956. S.B. in Humanities and Science (Chemistry minor), M.I.T., June 1958. M.A. in History of Science, Harvard University, June 1960. Ph. D. in History of Science, Harvard University, January 1966. M. A. (Hon.), University of Pennsylvania, October 1978.


Assistant Professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966; Associate Professor, 1969; Professor, 1972 Professor of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1977-2006. Emeritus, 2006– .

Regina M. Abrami

美国 University of Pennsylvania Senior Lecturer, Political Science, Senior Fellow Management Department, Wharton School of Business,


Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley


Reinhard Bendix and John L. Simpson Memorial Fellow, the University of California, Berkeley

Scott Moore

美国 University of Pennsylvania Director Penn Global China Program


doctoral and master’s degrees from Oxford Universit undergraduate degree from Princeton


Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Group Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S. Department of State Giorgio Ruffolo Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University

Xinyin Chen

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor of Psychology Center for the Study of Contemporary China, College of Arts & Sciences


Children’s socioemotional development Peer relationships Parenting and family influences Cross-cultural developmental psychology Cultural and biological factors in development


Ph.D. (Psychology) University of Waterloo, 1992 M.A. (Psychology) University of Waterloo, 1990 M.A. (Psychology) Shanghai Normal University, 1986 B.A. (Psychology) East China Normal University, 1983

Chi-ming Yang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of English Center for East Asian Studies


Relationship between Europe and Asia in the early modern period 18th-Century British Literature Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone Animal Studies Cinema and Media Studies Comparative Race and Empire Studies Environmental Humanities Transatlantic Studies Visual Culture

David Dettmann

美国 University of Pennsylvania Associate Director Center for East Asian Studies

Emily Hannum

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor of Sociology and Education Department of Sociology


Education, social stratification, poverty and children’s healthy development, gender and ethnicity, social policy, social mobility, global development, Chinese society.


Ph. D., Sociology, University of Michigan, Demography Concentration, conferred 1998 Doctoral Dissertation: Educational Inequality: Hidden Consequences of the Reform Era in Rural China. Committee: Professor Yu Xie (Chair, Sociology), Professor Barbara Anderson (Sociology), Professor Reynolds Farley (Sociology), Professor Harold Stevenson (Psychology). B.A., Sociology, Magna Cum Laude, Georgetown...


Professor of Sociology (2016-) and Associate Dean for Social Sciences (2018-), University of Pennsylvania Graduate Groups: Member of Graduate Groups in Sociology, Demography, Education, International Studies. Affiliations: Center for East Asian Studies, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Population Studies Center, Graduate School of Education. Associate Director, Population Studies Cen...

Eric W. Orts

美国 University of Pennsylvania Guardsmark Professor Center for East Asian Studies


corporate governance, environmental law and policy, environmental management, professional ethics, securities regulation, theories of the firm


Columbia Law School. J.S.D. 1994; LL.M. 1992. University of Michigan Law School. J.D. cum laude 1988. Articles editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. New School for Social Research, The Graduate Faculty. M.A. in political science, 1985. Oberlin College. B.A. with honors in government and minor in philosophy, 1982.


Guardsmark Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2003 to present. Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, 2000 to present. [Associate Professor with tenure, 1996-2000; Nelson Peltz Term Assistant Professor, 1991-96, tenured early in fifth year.] Professor of Management (secondary appointment), 2001 to present. Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership...

Frank Plantan, Jr.

美国 University of Pennsylvania Co-Director, International Relations Program Center for East Asian Studies

Jiajia Wang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, Chinese Language Program Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations


MA, University of Pennsylvania, 2006 PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2009


worked for Middlebury College as the director of their study abroad program in Kunming, China Swarthmore College as a visiting assistant professor


content-based instruction (CBI) for Chinese language students at the advanced level

Jing Hu

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, Chinese Language Program Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations


Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Chinese Literature and film.


Master’s degree in Comparative Linguistics from Peking University Master’s degree in Chinese Linguistics, awarded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison


Senior Lecturer in Chinese at Yale-NUS College taught Chinese at Smith College between 2006 and 2014 served as the Program Director and Language Director of Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) in Beijing for three summers between 2015-2017

Maiheng S. Dietrich

美国 University of Pennsylvania Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language Center for East Asian Studies


curriculum design, teaching methodology, acquisition of specific Chinese linguistic structures, pedagogical grammar, language and culture as well as language and literature


PhD in Chinese language and literature from the University of Minnesota


beginning Chinese three Chinese literature courses in Chinese first-year and second-year Spoken Chinese at LPS (Liberal and Professional Studies).

Marshall W. Meyer

美国 University of Pennsylvania Emeritus Professor of Management Department of Management, The Wharton School


management in china, measurement of organizational performance, organizational change, organizational design


A.B., Columbia University, 1964 (History and Sociology) M.A., University of Chicago, 1965 (Sociology) Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1967 (Sociology) M.A. (honorary), University of Pennsylvania, 1988


Tsai Wan-Tsa Professor and Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania Tommie Goh Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Singapore Mangement University, Spring, 2004. Richard A. Sapp Professor, The Wharton School, 2002-2010 V...

Mien-hwa Chiang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer in Chinese Language Center for East Asian Studies


MA in General Linguistics from Ohio University second MA in Chinese pedagogy and holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the Ohio State University


Chinese linguistics, discourse analysis, business Chinese education and language teacher training

Paul R. Goldin

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor of Chinese Studies Center for East Asian Studies


Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996.


Professor. Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), University of Pennsylvania (Penn), 2007-present. Associate Professor. EALC, Penn, 2002-07 (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies until 2004). Assistant Professor. Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Penn, 1996-2002. (Member of EALC, History, and Religious Studies graduate groups.) Chair. EALC, 20...


Chinese thought, early Chinese history, Chinese historical linguistics

Rudra Sil

美国 University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Political Science Center for East Asian Studies


Russian, post-Communist, and Asian comparative politics


Ph.D. Political Science. University of California, Berkeley. 1996. M.A. Political Science. University of California, Berkeley. 1989. B.A. Political Science (Highest Honors). University of California, Berkeley. 1988.


University of Pennsylvania: - Professor, Department of Political Science (2012 - ) - SAS Faculty Director, Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business (2011 - ) - Assistant Professor (1996–2003); Associate Professor (2003-2012)


Comparative politics: development, labor politics, institutional analysis Area expertise: Russian/post-communist studies, Asian studies International relations: general theories, international organizations, US-Russia relations Methodology: qualitative methods, comparative-historical analysis, philosophy of social science

Yue Hou

美国 University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Department of Political Science

Amy E. Gadsden

美国 University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Contemporary China, College of Arts & Sciences

Avery Goldstein

美国 University of Pennsylvania Affiliated Faculty Center for the Study of Contemporary China, College of Arts & Sciences


International Relations Theory Strategic/Security Studies Chinese Politics


Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1985 (Political Science) M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1978 (Political Science) M.S. University of Pennsylvania, 1976 (Secondary Education) B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1975 (Political Science)


David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2009- Inaugural Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, 2012-2019 Director, Anspach Institute, University of Pennsylvania, 2012-2018 Associate Director, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, University ...

Brian Vivier

美国 University of Pennsylvania Chinese Studies Librarian Penn Libraries


Chinese studies East Asian studies Japanese studies Korean studies Middle Eastern studies Southeast Asian studies

Christopher P. Atwood

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor of Mongolian and Late Imperial, Early Modern Chinese History Center for East Asian Studies


Ph.D., May, 1994, Indiana University, Bloomington. Major in Mongolian Studies, minors in History and East Asian Languages and Cultures. Dissertation: “Revolutionary Nationalist Mo-bilization in Inner Mongolia, 1925-1929.” Matriculated May, 1990. M.A., May, 1990, Indiana University, Bloomington. Major in Mongolian studies, minor in Ti-betan studies. Matriculated August, 1988. A.B. summa cum laud...


University of Pennsylvania. East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Professor. July, 2016 on. Indiana University. Central Eurasian Studies Department: Chair (July, 2007-June, 2013); Asso-ciate Professor (fall, 2002-June, 2016); Assistant Professor (fall 1996-spring, 2002). Indiana University. Interim Director, Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region, October, 2009-June, 2011. India...

Guobin Yang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Deputy Director Center for the Study of Contemporary China, College of Arts & Sciences


Social movements and revolutions, global communication, digital culture and politics, activist media, critical social theory, cultural sociology, historical sociology, narrative theory, media and memory, civil society and non-governmental organizations, environmental movements, literary translation, global 60s, modern China


Ph. D. Sociology, New York University, September, 2000. Dissertation: China’s Red Guard Generation: The Ritual Process of Identity Transformation. Committee: Craig Calhoun (Chair), Jeff Goodwin, Doug Guthrie, Hyun Ok Park. Ph. D. English Literature (specialization: Literary Translation), Beijing Foreign Studies University, March 1993. Dissertation: An Annotated English Translation of 30 Chapter...


Director, Center on Digital Culture and Society Deputy Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China Faculty in the Graduate Group in East Asian Languages and Civilizations Faculty in the Graduate Group in History Faculty in the Graduate Group of International Studies (Lauder Institute) Faculty in the Center for East Asian Studies Affiliated Faculty in the Asian American Studies Program ...

Hanming Fang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor Department of Economics


Broad Research Areas: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Empirical Microeconomics; Public Economics; Chinese Economy. Current Research Interests: Insurance Markets; Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action; Chinese Economy


University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, Ph.D. in Economics September 1995 - May 2000 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, M.A. in Economics September 1994 - May 1995 Fudan University Shanghai, China, B.A. in Economics September 1989 - July 1993


July 2015 - Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania. July 2010 - Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania. December 2017 - Professor of Health Care Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Secondary Appointment. July 2009 - June 2010 Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania. July 2009 - June 2010 Professor of Economics (...

Herbert L. Smith

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor Center for East Asian Studies


Population patterns in North China and South and Southeast Asian Countries

Jacques deLisle

美国 University of Pennsylvania Director Center for the Study of Contemporary China, College of Arts & Sciences


Law and politics of China, legal reform in China, law and economic and political change in China, China and international law, international status of Taiwan, cross-Strait and Mainland-Hong Kong relations, comparative and international law, China’s foreign relations


Harvard Law School, J.D. magna cum laude, 1990 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government, Ph.D. program (ABD) Princeton University, A.B. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982. Major: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs


Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, 2006-, Professor of Law, 1999-2006, Assistant Professor of Law, 1994-99, Professor of Political Science, 2010- Director, Center for East Asian Studies, 2009-, Member of CEAS Faculty, 1996- Deputy Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, 2012- Co-Director, Center for Asian Law, 2014- Visiting Professor, Universidad de Aveiro (Portugal, short-term, ...

邝剑菁Jianjing Kuang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Center for East Asian Studies


Phonetics Laboratory, phonology, speech production and perception.

Monroe E. Price

美国 University of Pennsylvania Adjunct Full Professor of Communication Annenberg School for Communication


Yale University, B.A., 1960 Yale Law School (cum laude), J.D., 1964 Law Clerk for Associate Justice Potter Stewart, United States Supreme Court, 1964–1965 Assistant to W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, 1965–1966


Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (current). Director, Center for Global Communication Studies; Adjunct Full Professor. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University (current). Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor; Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society. Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, LSE, London (current). Directo...

Mushi Li

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, Chinese Language Program Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations


second language acquisition, education, and psycholinguistics


master’s degrees in English and Language Education, and holds a doctorate in Language Education from Boston University.


teaching at Tufts University teaching at Northeastern University

Ning Liu

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, Chinese Language Program Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations


Bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at Qufu Normal University, Shandong Province, China Master’s degree in Teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages at Fudan University in Shanghai, China Master’s degree in Chinese Pedagogy at Brandeis University in MA, USA.


taught Chinese at Princeton University from 2016 to 2019 taught four summers for Princeton In Beijing (PIB) intensive Chinese program served as the head teacher of PIB from 2016 to 2019 worked at Brandeis University from 2015-2016 worked at Washington University at St. Louis from 2013 to 2014

Ori Tavor

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, Director, Master of Arts Program Center for East Asian Studies


Pre-modern Chinese Studies


University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2012. Tel-Aviv University, MA in Philosophy, 2007. Tel-Aviv University, BA in philosophy and East Asian Studies, 2004.


University of Pennsylvania, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies; MA Program Director. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2019-present. University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer in Chinese Studies; MA Program Director. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2014-2019. The George Washington University, Adjunct Professor. Religion, 2013-2014.

Si-yen Fei

美国 University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of History Center for East Asian Studies


Late Imperial and modern China, gender and women's history, urban history


Ph.D. Stanford University

Stephen Lang

美国 University of Pennsylvania Keeper of the Asian Collection University of Pennsylvania Museum

Victor H. Mair

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Center for East Asian Studies


Sino-eurasian cultural relations, Buddhism


Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976 M.Phil., School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)


Buddhist popular literature as well as the vernacular tradition of Chinese fiction and the performing arts

W. Allyn Rickett

美国 University of Pennsylvania Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Center for East Asian Studies

Ya-Ching Hsu

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, Chinese Language Program Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations


language task/activity material design


BA in French Language and Culture at Fu Jen Catholic University Master’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University


language Lecturer in the Chinese program at Hamilton College from 2014 to 2016 Bucknell University from 2016 to 2017

Ye Tian

美国 University of Pennsylvania Lecturer in Foreign Languages Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations


centered on Chinese language education, with an interest in Register Pedagogy, and a focus on investigating Chinese language education through sociocultural and historical frameworks and methodologies.


Bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Beijing Language and Culture University in China Master’s degree in Chinese Philology from Beijing Language and Culture University in China Ph.D., Education, Society, and Culture, University of California, Riverside, 2017


taught Chinese at Harvard University from 2006 to 2013 taught eight summers between 2005 and 2013 at Harvard Beijing Academy one summer at the Chinese Language Summer School at Middlebury College in 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at Bucknell University from 2015 to 2016.

Yuanyuan Zeng

美国 University of Pennsylvania Associate Director Center for the Study of Contemporary China, College of Arts & Sciences


B.A. from Sichuan University M.S. in Library& Information Science from Catholic University of America Ph.D. in Anthropology from Catholic University of America


Served as social sciences and area studies librarian at the Eisenhower Library from 2003-2012 Johns Hopkins University From 2000-2001, worked at the Asian Division of Library of Congress Serves as an English/Mandarin conference interpreter for the U.S. Department of State.