Globalization and Development China in Africa Labor Critical GIS
Ph.D.: Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, expected 2018. M.A.: Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2013. B.S.: Resources Science and Engineering, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 2010. B.A. (double major): English Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 2010.
World & Global History Comparative Early Modern History History of Ming China Modern Chinese History
B.A. Stanford University, 1957, History and Philosophy U.S. Army Language School, 1958-59, Chinese-Mandarin Course M.A. Harvard University, 1962, Regional Studies - East Asia Ph.D. Harvard University, 1968, History & Far Eastern Languages
Military Service: U.S. Army, 1957-61 Yale Univ., History Department, Acting Instructor, 1967-68 University of Minnesota, History Department, Assistant Professor, 1968-76; Associate, 1976-80; Professor, 1980-
sociolinguistics pidgins creoles and other contact languages Belizean creole (Central America) endangered languages (Garifuna in Belize and Honduras) Garifuna (Belize and Honduras) African-American English, Chinese-English Pidgin English Chinese language variation language, gender and identity
University of Bordeaux, France, Liberal Arts, 1960-62; University of Paris-Sorbonne, France, English, 1962-67: Licence-es-Lettres 1963; Diplôme d'Etudes Supèrieures 1965; C.A.P.E.S. (Education degree) 1967; Admissible à l'agrégation (English) 1968. University of Paris-Nanterre: 1968-69; Linguistics Certificate 1969. Indiana University-Bloomington 1972-75: MA French Linguistics: 1973; MA Linguis...
Instructor of French, Milton High School, Glasgow, Scotland, 1963-64. Teacher of English, Lycee de St Cloud, Paris, France 1967-1970. Instructor of French/Linguistics, Hollins College, Roanoke,Va., 1970-72. Professor of English and Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (since 1989); Visiting Assistant Professor (1974-75); Assistant Prof...
ethnomusicology musicology intellectual history Imperial China gamelan
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: PhD in ethnomusicology, in progress (ABD), expected completion Spring 2019. Advisor: Gabriela Currie. Dissertation: “Interpreting Music Reconstruction in the Northern Song Dynasty” MA in ethnomusicology, 2010. Advisor: Anna Schultz University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: BM with honors in music composition, summa cum laude, 1998 BA in mathematics, summa cum ...
Chinese language pedagogy, curriculum design, proficiency-based language instruction and project-based Chinese language learning, ESL
ritual law religion traditional Chinese social history law gender analysis of historical documentation rumor gossip chinese history world history feminism
Ph.D.: Chinese History, University of California, Berkeley, 1981.
Chinese language, teaching Chinese as a second language
comparative politics rural China and peasant politics
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985, in Political Science B.A., Oberlin College, 1975, in Chinese Language and Literature
University of Minnesota, Associate Professor of Political Science, 1993-present, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1989-93 Northwestern University, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1986-89 University of California at Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1985-86 Tunghai University (in Taichung, Taiwan), English teacher, 1975-77
Linguistics, teaching Chinese as a second language, classical Chinese and literature
Chinese language, Chinese calligraphy
Chinese and international cinemas Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture Taiwan cinema and cultural studies Ecocritical theory and film studies Digital cinema, CGI, and animation Realism in fiction, film, and theory Convention and intertextuality in film theory Chinese and Western Marxisms
PhD 2004 East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Dissertation committee: Xiaobing Tang, Tom Gunning, Judith Zeitlin MA 2001 East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago BA 1993 University of Texas at Austin (major: Asian Studies; minor: Chinese)
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (Fall 2009 – present) Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (formerly Asian Languages and Literatures) Graduate affiliations: Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media; Moving Image Studies; Comparative Literature; Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society University of California – Berkeley (Fall 2011) Visiting Associate Profe...
US immigration Chinese diaspora Asian Americans US-China relations
M.A.: English Language and Literature, Renmin University of China, 2014.
Chinese art & archaeology Pre-modern East Asia Buddhist visual/material culture Korean art & archaeology Sculpture and society Fetishism, idolatry, iconodule, iconophobia, aniconism, iconoclasm Epigraphy, paleography, antiquarianism Han (206 BCE-220 CE) to Six Dynasties (222-589) Sixteen Kingdoms (304-439) China (and adjacent regions) Pre-Islamic Central Asia Trans-Eurasian (esp. Indo-Iranian a...
Ph.D.: Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011. M.A.: Art History, Seoul National University, Korea, 2005. B.A.: Archaeology & Art History, Seoul National University, Korea, 2003.
taught at Stanford (2010-2), UCLA (2007-9), Dongguk University (2008), and the KAIST (Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, 2007)
Early Modern (Ming-Qing) Chinese Literature and Culture Comparative Early Modernity
PhD: Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, Princeton University. B.A.: English , Beijing University, Beijing, China.
Traditional East Asian poetry and poetics; Buddhism and its relation to pre-modern and modern literature; classical Chinese literary traditions in Japan
Harvard University (A.B., Summa cum Laude in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1982). Harvard University (Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1989). Dissertation title: “The poetry of Wen Tingyun (812?-866?) and the development of late Tang aestheticism.”Director: Stephen Owen.
University of Minnesota: Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, July 2004-present Harvard University: Senior Preceptor for Literary Chinese, June 2003-June 2004 Harvard University: Preceptor for Literary Chinese, July 1997-June 2003 Columbia University: Associate Professor, Chinese Literature, 1995-1997; Assistant Professor, 1990-95 Columbia University: Visiting Pro...
Sheng Fang Fu
Chinese language
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Economic Sociology Social Networks Social Stratification Chinese Society
1990 Ph.D. in sociology, State University of New York at Albany. Thesis: “Work-Unit Structure and Status Attainment: A Study of Work-Unit Status in Urban China,” Advisor: Professor Nan Lin; Advisory committee: Richard Alba, Christine Bose, Richard Hall, John Logan. 1984 M.A. in law (sociology), Nankai University, China. Thesis: “The Single-Child Family and Its Socioeconomic Implications,” Advis...
University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology 2006- Professor of Sociology. On sabbatical leave (2009-2010), unpaid leave (fall 2012), and sabbatical leave (2017-2018) at XJTU 1991-2000 Assistant (1991-97) and Associate (1997-2000) Professor of Sociology Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology (1999-2000) Joint Faculty of East Asian Studies (1991-present) On sabbatical (1997-98) and unpaid...
Contemporary Chinese literature, social studies, comparative literatures, computer-assisted Chinese learning, ESL
Ph.D.: American Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2006.
The Political Economies of Post-War East Asia: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China The History of Global Capitalism Post-War Global Capitalism The Global Cold War Marxism Comparative Economic History Comparative History and Historical Sociology Agrarian History and Agricultural Change History and Debates on the Transition to Capitalism Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Economic, Social, Legal and ...
American literature, teaching Chinese as a second language
China; Taiwan; Taipei City; Chinese poetry and poetics; colonialist photography; Chinese textbooks and the modern nation
Ph.D., Chinese literature, University of Washington, Seattle. M.A., Chinese literature, University of Washington, Seattle. B.A., Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Inter-University Program/International Chinese Language Program, Taipei, Taiwan, 1977-78; 1988-87, 1999.
Visiting Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University, Fall, 2017 Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota, 2013-2016 Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, National Library, Taiwan, February-June, 2012. Professor of Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2000-2016 Director of the Title VI National Resource Cente...
East Asian history Imperial China modern Chinese social and cultural history Republican China travel
Bronze Age archaeology East Asian art
Curriculum and teaching, instructional design and technology, OPI testing