translation as a religious genre, with special focus on the earliest translations of Buddhist texts into Chinese; Buddhist Middle Indo-Aryan, particularly the role of Gandhari Prakrit in the earliest transmission of Buddhism to Central Asia and China; art historical, epigraphical, and archeological materials as sources for the study of religion; and history, theory, and methods in the academic ...
Ph.D. in East Asian Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 MA in Religious Studies, Indiana University, 1989 BA in Religious Studies and Philosophy, Indiana University, 1986
doctorate at Columbia University
twentieth-century Chinese fiction and drama, film, cultural criticism, and popular culture
MA in teaching Chinese as a second language from Beijing Language and Culture University BA in Chinese language and literature from Shandong Science and Technology University.
worked as an instructor in the Cornell-Beijing FALCON program in the spring of 2007 served as a Teaching Associate in the department of Asian Studies at Cornell University from 2007 to 2012
Chinese and authoritarian politics
related to urbanization, authoritarianism, and economic development
Chinese Literature Early Chinese intellectual history Chinese archaeology
Ph.D. in Ancient Chinese History, University of Washington 2000 M.A. in Ancient Chinese History, University of Washington 1995
2002 M.A. Peking University, Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature 1999 B.A. Shaanzi Normal University, Chinese Language and Literature
served as a Language Instructor in the Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University served as a language instructor in the Yale-China Language Center, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009-2010) had been a teaching associate for the Chinese language program in this department at Cornell University in 2005-2006 and 2012-2016.
the identity politics of the Taiwan issue, China’s grand strategy, East Asian security politics, and Olympics and international relations.
1990-1991 Teacher's Certificate, TESL, Brigham Young University 1990 Certificate, Teacher of Chinese as a Second Language, Chinese Language Center, Taipei, Taiwan 1987 Certificate, TESL, BBC and London University, London 1982-1987 Graduate Diploma, TESL, Department of English Graduate School at National Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chun Mei Lyons
Change and development Comparative labor movements Economic Development Education (organizations and systems) Global economy Industrial relations systems International and comparative political economy Labor and politics Labor and society Labor relations Unions Urban labor movements
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2011 M.A. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2007 B.A. Asian Studies, Bard College, Annandale-‐on-‐Hudson, NY, 2002 A.A. Liberal Arts, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Gt. Barrington, MA, 2000
Assistant Professor, Cornell University Department of International and Comparative Labor, 2011-Present Member of the Field of Sociol0gy, 2012-Present Member of the Field of Development Sociology, 2013-‐Present Visiting Fellow, Brown University, International Studies, Spring 2015
2008 Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, San Diego. Awarded 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations, law and politics 2003 B.A. Political Science, Stanford University With distinction and minor in Economics
2015 - Associate Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University 2009 - 2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Chinese literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Ph.D. in East Asian Studies, Princeton University M.F.A. in Poetry Writing, Washington University, St. Louis
the intersection of cognitive and social development. Integrating developmental, cognitive, and sociocultural perspectives
BSc in Psychology from Peking University, China PhD in Psychology from Harvard University
narrative tradition and social practice of writing and reading in the historical conditions of print culture, commercialization, and urbanization
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago M.A. in East Asian languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul Korea B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul Korea
International Relations Chinese Foreign Policy Asian Security
PhD from Yale University’s Political Science Department undergraduate degree is from Colby College+F6
Chinese literature and literary thought from Han dynasty through the early Song, early and medieval Chinese intellectual history, and the study of textual production and text culture in pre-modern China.
Ph.D., University of Washington 1996
Liren Zheng
Shu-jan (Grace) Lin
Modern Chinese (Mandarin) language Chinese language pedagogy modern Chinese literature Chinese cinema
MA in TESOL in 1992 from the University of Arizona BA in English in 1983 from the China University of Petroleum.
Yi Jin