Chinese, Vietnamese, history
Gender & Sexuality Knowledge, Culture & Power Work, Economy & Globalization Culture and markets; inequality; gender; consumption; service work; China. Consumption and inequality in China, culture and social change in Chinese marketplaces.
B.A. Princeton University M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Work, Social Inequality, Gender, Economy, Culture.
Chinese language and literature
modern Chinese-speaking world laughter and comedy, celebrities, swindlers, print culture, cultural entrepreneurs, literary cosmopolitanism, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang Modern Chinese literature and drama Late Qing (1895-1911) and Republican era (1912-1949) print culture Cinema, cartoons, manhua, and visual culture Translation Cultures of comedy and laughter Stories of s...
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University A.B., Dartmouth College
Chinese popular thought, religion and culture. Popular religious sects of the late traditional and modern periods and their texts, and local rituals and beliefs practiced in villages To come to a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese culture through approaching it from the popular level. To understand the historical development of Chinese religions, their interactions, beliefs and practic...
Westmar College, Le Mars, Iowa (Also did undergraduate work at the University of Cincinnati and Wheaton College.), B.A. Biology, 1953–57 Evangelical Theological Seminary Naperville, Illinois, B.D. Church History, 1960 University of Chicago, M.A. History of Religions, 1966 University of Chicago, Ph.D. Chinese Religions, 1971 Interuniversity Program for Chinese Language Studies (administered by S...
Proctor and Gamble Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, Lab technician, 1957 Evangelical United Brethren Church, Chicago, Near North Side, Pastor, 1960–64 Chicago Commission on Human Relations, City of Chicago, (part-time while attending University of Chicago), Director, New Resident's Services Division, 1964–67 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Dept. of Religion, (part of salary paid by East Asian Stu...
(a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments Courses in Chinese religion and philosophy, undergraduate and graduate. (b) Courses Taught at UBC1989–1995, 1998–2000 Chinese 400, Classical Chinese II Asian Studies 325 (Phil.323), History of Chinese Thought (now Asia 371 and 372) Asian Studies 509, Aspects of Chinese Popular Thought and Religion Asian Studies 365, Daoist Religion and its Philo...
Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics Multilingualism Second Language Acquisition Heritage language Teaching and Learning Language Socialization Research Methodology Technology in Language Teaching Language Teaching Material Development Chinese Applied Linguistics
森舸澜Edward Gilman Slingerland III
Warring States (5th-3rd c. B.C.E.) Chinese thought, religious studies (comparative religion, cognitive science and evolution of religion), cognitive linguistics (blending and conceptual metaphor theory), ethics (virtue ethics, moral psychology), cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, the relationship between the humanities and the natural sciences, and the classical Chinese language.
09/94–08/98 Ph.D., Religious Studies, Stanford University (1998) Area of Specialization: Early Chinese thought， Fields: Virtue ethics, hermeneutics 09/91–06/94 M.A., East Asian Languages (classical Chinese), UC Berkeley 09/88–06/91 B.A., with Distinction, Stanford University, Asian Languages (Chinese) Phi Beta Kappa 12/88–12/89 Chinese Language Center, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC...
Director, Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC) (2012-2018) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (2015-16) Early Career Scholar (Senior), Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (2008-2009) Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition (2005-2015)
Aboriginal Forestry, Business Management, Climate Change, Economics, Genomics, International Trade, Modelling
Chinese Applied Linguistics grounded in the intersection of Chinese pedagogical studies, international education, and socio-cultural anthropology
Ph.D., International and Comparative Education, Indiana University M.A., Chinese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University M.A., Educational Psychology, Indiana University
taught courses in international and comparative education at Indiana University (2010-2011), Chinese language courses from beginning to advanced levels at Indiana University (2011-2015) the University of Virginia (2015-2017). served as Chinese intensive course developer and level coordinator for the Flagship Chinese Institute in the US (2014-2015) as academic advisor and field director in the U...
Cantonese Language program and the Hong Kong Studies Initiative
MLS from the University of Washington Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Policy Studies from UBC
East Asian Buddhism
January 1992-November 1997: McMaster University; Ph.D degree conferred in November 1997 with a dissertation titled “The Formation of Esoteric Buddhism in Japan: A Study of Three Japanese Esoteric Apocrypha” (supervised by K. Shinohara, R. Sharf and P. Granoff) (degree certificate dated Nov. 7, 1997). September 1990-December 1991: Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; doctor...
July 2001-present: Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia: Assistant Professor (July 2001-June 2006), Associate Professor (July 2006-June 2011), Full Professor (July, 2011-); July 2001- June 2011: Canada Research Chair in East Asian Buddhism; April-June, 2012: Shinnyo-en Visiting Professor, Stanford University May–June, 2008: Foreigner researcher in the Institute of Researc...
(l) Traditional Chinese social, intellectual and cultural history, specializing in T’ang and Sung dynasty (607-1274). (2) Modern Chinese social, intellectual and cultural history. (3) Twentieth-century Chinese fiction.
M.A., History: Modern Chinese Intellectual History, History Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982. Ph.D. (U.B.C.) — Chinese Intellectual History
Chinese Language
1995 - 1999, Modern Language Education at UBC, Master’s degree 1977-1981, Shandong (Province) Teachers’ University, Bachelor’s degree
1975 - 1977, a high school teacher in China 1982 - 1987, an adult educator in a provincial import and export corporation in China 1999 - present, Working years at UBC:
settlement and integration of immigrants and refugees, critical cross-cultural and antiracist practice, internal dynamics in Chinese community, place-based community development and policy, globalization and social development, and North-South social work knowledge transfer.
Urban Studies, Health, Social Capital, Demography, Chinese Societies, Machine Learning, Statistics
2015 Doctor, Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 2010 Master, Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Preliminary exams in medical sociology (high pass) and demography 2008 Master, Demography, Peking University, Beijing, China 2005 Bachelor, Computer Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (with honors)
2015-now Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology, The University of British Columbia 2018-2021 Research Fellow, Population and Health Research Center, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2015-2018 Faculty Associate, the Institute for Empirical Social Science Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
social and cultural history of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) the Japanese occupation of China during World War Two historical perspectives on world history and human rights
20th century Chinese history the history of the Chinese Communist Party the role of intellectuals in public life in China
Ph.D., History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University, 1986. M.A. (History), The University of Virginia, 1980. B.A.-Asian Studies, Honours, Australian National University, 1978.
Asian legal studies Law and development Tax law and policy
B.A. (Harvard College), M.A. in Philosophy (Tufts University), J.D. (Yale Law School), LL.M. in Taxation (New York University School of Law)
Chinese Applied Linguistics the intertextual relationship between historiography and prose fiction in Chinese literature
Ph.D., East Asian Studies, University of Toronto (2014) Ph.D., English, Beijing Foreign Studies University (1997) M.A., English, Shandong University (1994) B.A., English, Shandong University (1991)
Chinese language, literature, and English/Chinese translation
Cantonese
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics, UBC Master of Philosophy in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies (First Class Honours), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
international security—more specifically, the evolving security order of the Asia Pacific, intrastate conflict, human security, and Canadian foreign and security policies UN peacekeeping, the protection of civilians in conflict, Canadian security policy, and security relations among Asian states and peoples
PhD, Indiana University
joined the UBC faculty in 1989 visiting professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo; Nanyang Technical University, Singapore; and the Australian National University.
Chinese Authenticity and forgery, especially in textual studies and material culture of early modern China (Ming and Qing periods) Transmission and preservation of knowledge, including cultures of collection, book production, and artistic reproduction in early modern China History of philology in pre-modern China, especially the Confucian canon and traditions of scriptural scholarship Writing s...
In 2004 received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, writing a dissertation entitled “The Rogue Classicist: Feng Fang (1493–1566) B.A. (History Honours) is from UBC
Tibetan and Bhutanese Buddhism+AF5
In 2017 Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies (University of Hamburg)
Chinese migration, especially internal; Canada and Hong Kong connections; the Chinese military; the impact of warfare on Chinese society; regionalism in China, focusing on Shandong and Guangxi provinces; the Zhuang people of southern China; colour symbolism in Chinese culture. Modern Chinese history Internal migration in China Military history Regionalism Hong Kong
Director, Centre of Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, UBC Co-Director, Canada & Hong Kong Project, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, Toronto General editor, UBC Press Series on Modern China Research Associate, David See-chai Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University External advisor, Hong Kong Culture project, University of Hong Kong Fellow, St. John’s College, UBC
the history of Chinese migration to Southeast Asia and of China's role in the global regimes established to address problems of human displacement and forced migration
Global Vancouver Trans-Pacific migration Asian Canadian and Asian American history Race and immigration Social Science and Social Theory in US and Europe Public History and History Education Hong Kong and Canada Crosscurrents
1989 - 1994 Princeton University: Ph.D and M.A. in History 1985 - 1989 University of British Columbia: B.A. in Honours History
2016-2017, Stanley Kelley, Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in Asian American Studies, Princeton University 2011 – present, Principal, St. John’s Graduate College, UBC 2003 - present, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia Fall 2007 and Fall 2008, Acting Principal, St. John’s Graduate College, UBC 2001- - 2008, Associate Professor, Department...
Chinese art, landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties (tenth to fourteenth centuries) Chinese landscape painting focuses on the construction of place, site, region, and empire in painting and other visual media, on art and the production of knowledge, cultural and historical geography, and the history of cartography. the formation of East Asian art history as an academic discipline in ...
PhD (Chicago) MA (Frankfurt)
Chinese History how the ideas of “China” and “Chineseness” have evolved over time how the sociology of culture—the production, transmission, and consumption of beliefs and practices—has shaped not only how the boundaries of China have been drawn but also how China itself has been historicized the later imperial period the more recent past, especially as it pertains to the formation and transfor...
comparative corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, state capitalism, Chinese law, and law and economic sociology.
LL.B. (Taiwan), LL.M, S.J.D. (Illinois), MA, MPhil, PhD (Columbia)
1) Modern Chinese literature, Chinese literary modernity 2) Translation (Chinese-English/English-Chinese)
BA – Department of English, Wuhan University MA & PhD – Modern Chinese Literature, University of British Columbia
Asian legal studies Comparative law Human rights International law Law and society
B.A., M.A. JD, Ph.D. (Washington), MDiv. (Vancouver)
Cantonese language learning motivation, language technology and testing, and psycholinguistics
BSc in Human Biology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong MA in Linguistics and TESOL certificate from Brigham Young University
taught Chinese at the Defense Language Institute and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California
all levels of Cantonese courses and collaborates with the local community and organizations on various projects related to Cantonese and its culture
Chinese textbook design, teacher training, and pedagogy strategies
Ph.D. from National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
selected by Taiwan's Ministry of Education from 2010 to 2012 to teach in the UBC Asian Studies Department as a visiting lecturer, teaching heritage and non-heritage student’s basic and intermediate Chinese courses. served as an assistant professor and lecturer at National Quemoy University, National Taiwan Normal University, and Nanya Institute of Technology a teacher at the Junior and Senior H...
how gender intersects with family and population processes, such as assortative mating (i.e., who marries whom), divisions of labor, parenthood, and migration, to shape individual well-being and societal inequality. how family and population processes, such as divisions of labor, family relations, and immigration, perpetuate social inequality in various domains (e.g., health, subjective well-be...
2016 Ph.D., Sociology. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 2012 M.A., Sociology. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 2010 B.A., Public Affairs and Population Management. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
2016–present, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Instructor, University of British Columbia. Undergraduate: Theories of Family and Kinship, Diversity in Family Forms, Social Statistics II Independent Instructor, The Ohio State University. Undergraduate: Statistics in Sociology Graduate Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University. Gr...
Chinese language
East Asian musics
Ph.D. (Wesleyan University, 1980)
pre-modern literature, specifically fiction and literary criticism ghosts in Chinese culture to continue xplorations of the themes of violence, anger, trauma, and injustice.
PH.D. "The Mediating Eye: Mao Lun, Mao Zonggang and the Reading of Sanguo zhi yanyi": Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, 1991. M.A. "Mending the Web: A Thematic Study of Xu Dishan's Fiction". Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia,1985. B.A. Chinese language and literature. School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 1977.
2016 - Twelve-month lecturer, Department of Asian Studies. 1997-2016 Sessional Instructor, Department of Asian Studies; Art History and Visual Art (2012-2016); University of British Columbia 2012-2018 Honorary Faculty Research Associate, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia 2011-2012 Director, China Links: Professional Seminars at UBC China Links (formerly Summer Institut...
Chinese Language
diaspora Chinese literary thought during the Cold War and the cultural politics of Chinese Canadian historical narratives
University of British Columbia, BA Hons Brown University, MA, PhD
the concept of ritual in early Chinese ethics, religion and political thought the writings of pre-Qin and Early Imperial China how the idea of ritual was combined with developing ideas about the body, emotions and human nature to create a nuanced system of ethics ritual theory, virtue ethics, moral psychology and embodied cognition, with a particular interest in discovering meaningful points of...
M.A. in Asian Studies was earned at UBC, and focused on the translation of archaeological texts from pre-Qin China.
literacy and writings; visual culture and media studies; affect and embodiment; digital humanities; human-machine interaction; translation studies; Chinese sociolinguistics; Chinese literature, film, and criticism the intersection of language and identity and has an upcoming co-authored article on Chinese immigrants’ language use in a mandarin church at the International Journal of Multilingualism
BA in Chinese linguistics from Xiamen University M.A. in comparative literature from Beijing Normal University Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona
migration, mobilities, multiculturalism, media, rhetoric, ethics, and masculinity provide a road map for analyzing how mobilities intersect with cultures through case studies about modern Italy’s global networks, which are created through migration, colonialism, tourism, and business travel cultural critic of Chinese migration to Italy, which has generated considerable debate in the Italian, Ch...
Ph.D., New York University B.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University
Undergraduate Advisor for Minors in Italian Studies (Jan-June) Undergraduate Advisor for Honours in Romance Studies (Jan-June)
Chinese Buddhism
PhD from Leiden University in 2017 with a dissertation titled “Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic in the Tang Dynasty” . MA in Buddhist Studies from Komazawa University in Tokyo, Japan in 2011 BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Alberta in 2009.
Aboriginal Forestry, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Communities and Livelihoods, Conservation, Ecosystems, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Social Impact, Sustainability
Asian international relations and trans-Pacific affairs, China in the world, Canada-China relations International relations of Eastern Asia, Canada-Asia policy issues, Asia Pacific institution building
University of Alberta, B.A. Hons., Political Science, 1973 University of Alberta, M.A., Political Science, 1974 Dalhousie University, Ph.D. (with distinction), Political Science, 1982
Acadia University, Lecturer, 1980-81 York University, Lecturer, 1981-82 York University, Assistant Professor, 1982-86 York University, Associate Professor, 1986-96 York University-University of Toronto – Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, Director, 1991-96 York University, Professor, 1997-99 Harvard University, Visiting Scholar, 1997-99 Professor, 1999 - Associate Member, Department of Poli...
Asian international relations and trans-Pacific affairs, China in the world, Canada-China relations
Chinese Linguistics
Modern Chinese Popular Culture twentieth-and twenty-first-century Chinese literature, cinema, and popular culture, with a focus on issues of authorship, trans-mediation, and hybrid genres in Chinese literary and media scenes
taught research-based writing for the Program in Writing and Rhetoric and a Chinese film class for Thinking Matters at Stanford University (2018-19).
Theatre Studies modern and traditional Chinese theatre in the twentieth century and Asian Canadian theatre
Associate Professor of Theatre, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
theatre history, drama, Asian theatre and intercultural theatre
Tibetan
Intensive Tibetan language