Risk Regulation and Governance in China: The making of China’s regulatory state; regulatory globalization. Rethinking the Reach of the Chinese State The China Environment Project: Development of a major dataset on China’s environment governance and performance leading to new analyses of China’s environmental governance Intergovernmental relations and stability maintenance in rural China (with M...

1993 Ph.D. in Politics, Princeton University. Dissertation: Making Reform: The Great Leap Famine and Rural Change in China. Advisers: David Bachman, Henry S. Bienen, and Lynn T. White III (chair) Fields of specialization: Comparative Politics and Chinese Politics, International Relations, Political Economy. 1990 M.A. in Politics, Princeton University. 1988 M.A. in Political Science, Portland St...

Professor of Political Science, the College, and the Committee on International Relations, the University of Chicago, 2004-present. Associate Professor with tenure, 1999-2004; Assistant Professor, 1993-1999; Fellow, the College, 1992-93. Co-Director, the University of Chicago Workshop on East Asia, 1992-present Member, Committee on Chinese Studies, Center for East Asian Studies; Member, Steerin...

classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, comparative study of oral traditions, problems of translation, pre-twentieth-century medi history, and ethnography and ethics of medical care.

B.A. (Greek and Comparative Literature) from Duke University M.Phil and Ph.D from Yale (Comparative Literature)

previously taught at UCLA, Stanford, Yale, the City University of Hong Kong, and the Université de Paris-III.

social history of twentieth-century China, in particular of the Chinese countryside; history of work, technology, gender, and everyday life. the changing experience of life and work among "ordinary" (i.e. non-elite) people throughout China's revolutionary twentieth century.

Chinese Studies

graduated with honor from San Jose State University Master of Library Science program with the emphasis on academic library, graduated with honor from the University of Southern California Master of Arts program with the emphasis on Chinese history.

the role of the arts in the history of human relations in China, with an emphasis on issues of personal agency and social justice

Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan

how rice farming made southern China more interdependent than the more freewheeling, wheat-growing north including what that means for whether people move chairs in Starbucks

the history of Chinese art and architecture, with a focus on medieval periods. visual and material cultural issues in Buddhist art and architecture and China’s funerary practice through history.

taught at Iowa State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

pedagogical techniques of second-language acquisition.

Teaching Chinese Language; Second Language Acquisition; Chinese Language Pedagogy; Chinese Literature and Film; Chinese Popular Culture content-based learning and instruction

general examines how cultural, politico-economic, and technological factors shape the design and implementation of social policies, and how national policies and global development initiatives in turn impact health in/equity, vulnerability, and rights, with a focus on contemporary China ideologies of "community" in the country's ongoing social transformation and welfare reconstruction, dynamics...

Ph.D. in Comparative Human Development and Anthropology at the University of Chicago bachelor degrees in psychology and philosophy from Peking University, China

an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

the intersection of literary and economic imaginaries in late imperial China. in the ways in which literary genres helped late imperial audiences understand and negotiate an emergent global economy. literary and economic imaginaries in late imperial China.

impact of the Han Empire’s conquest of frontier regions and seeks to explain the variable ways different communities and social classes responded to momentous changes in local history recover the settlement sites of a local Bronze Age polity known as the Dian before its incorporation by the Han Empire the genesis of the Dian polity in relation to control over bronze production and the regional ...

PhD, University of Michigan, 2008

ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy Philosophy of Religions Buddhist Studies at UChicago Constructive Studies in Religion

PhD (University of Michigan) BA in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago

taught Chinese philosophy and religion at the University of Michigan (Department of East Asian Literature and Cultures), Northwestern University (Department of Religion and Department of Philosophy), Harvard University (Department of East Asian Literature and Civilization) and the National University of Singapore (Department of Philosophy).

modern China, the twentieth-century global history of capitalism, labor, urban space, and everyday life

PhD in history from the University of Chicago

local practices revealed in police and judicial records and the intersection of law and family life in modern China. Modern China; Chinese legal history; crime; history of the family; comparative unfreedoms

PhD'08 Yale University AB'97 Amherst College

taught in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

Medical anthropology; anthropology of everyday life; popular culture studies; post-structural and critical theory; China.

PhD, University of Chicago, 1986

the economic effects of industrialization on Chinese culture Chinese urbanization and migration patterns mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and technology, and state regulatory regimes

PhD, New York University, 2004

Chinese lingistics, second language acquisition, and discourse analysis. Chinese language pedagogy and foreign language evaluation

China, comparative and world history, particularly long-term global economic trends social, economic, and environmental history

YALE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL, Ph.D. in History, May, 1988. Dissertation: "The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1900-37" (economic, ecological, and social change in areas of North China adjacent to the Grand Canal) M.Phil., 1984; M.A., 1983; Yale East Asia Prize Fellowship, 1984-87; "Distinction" on orals, 1984 (major field: China; 1644-1949; minor fie...

July, 2012 – UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, University Professor in History and the College July 1988 – June, 2012. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE: Distinguished Professor of History, 2011 – 2012; Chancellor’s Professor of History, 2004-2011; Professor, Department of History, July 1999-present; Associate Professor, Department of History, 1992-1999; Assistant Professor, 1988-1992. Undergraduate course...

Early Chinese legal history and culture, classical Chinese, and early Chinese culture history. ancient Chinese law

the history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, as well as in the cultural history of Tibetan Buddhism. History of Religions Philosophy of Religions Buddhist Studies at UChicago Constructive Studies in Religion Religion and the Human Sciences

PhD (Brown University)

Contemporary Theories in the Study of Religion in the History of Religions program, and Introduction to the Philosophies of India in Philosophy of Religions

Chinese Language Russian Émigré literature in China; Russian Émigrés in China; Chinese students who studied in the Soviet Union in the 1950s-1960s.

Twentieth and twenty-first century Chinese literature and film; concepts of realism, modernism, and avant-garde; translation; Chinese opera film; documentary; literary history; media studies. contemporary Chinese fiction and criticism; popular science; conceptions of Chinese realism, modernism, and avant-garde; the translation of foreign literature in socialist China; narrative temporality in f...

Teaching and Research Interests: Chinese language pedagogy, curriculum design and instructions, performance-based learning, hybrid learning and other computer-assisted learning, Chinese film course and culinary culture course, study abroad and summer program. Chinese language pedagogy, curriculum design and instructions, performance-based learning, hybrid learning and other computer-assisted le...

Teaching Intermediate and Advanced Chinese Language. Interest in using computer technology for language learning. Research focuses on cultural comparison, and "the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution." cultural comparison, and the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

political sociology broadly defined comparative historical sociology, sociology of emotion, ecological sociology, sociological theory and methodology

1994-1996 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, McGill University. 1990-1995 Ph.D, Department of Sociology, McGill University. 1986-1990 Ph.D, Department of Entomology, McGill University. 1982-1984 M.S., Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Chinese Academy of Science. 1978-1982 B.S., Department of Biology, Fudan University.

2012- Thousand Talent Professor of Sociology, Zhejiang University. 2009- Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. 2003-2009 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. 1996-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.

Early Chinese civilization, focusing on philosophy, religion, and history of science

the cultural and literary history of China’s Zhou dynasty (c. 1045-249 B.C.), the period that has served all subsequent Chinese intellectuals as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization; after all, it is not only the period founded by the sage kings Wen (d. 1050 B.C.) and Wu (r. 1045-1043 B.C.), but also that during which Confucius (551-479 B.C.) archaeologically recovered textual materials from ...

1978-1983: Stanford University (Stanford, CA) M.A. 6/80, Ph.D. 6/83 (Diss. “The Composition of the Zhouyi”), Asian Languages. 1977-1978: Kyoto Japanese Language Center (Kyoto, Japan). 1974-1977: Tiande Academy 天德黌舍 (Taipei, Taiwan); independent study of Chinese classics with Aisingioro (Liu) Yu-yun 愛新覺羅毓鋆. 9/70-5/74: University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN) B.A. 5/74, Theology.

1984-present: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, U. of Chicago; 2006-present: Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China 1997-2006: Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Professor of Early China; 1996-1997: Professor; 1990-1996: Associate Professor; 1984-1990: Assistant Professor; 1990-1993, Chair 2008-2012: Chair. 2006-present: Creel Center fo...

Modern Chinese intellectual and social history, labor history, the Chinese Communist movement. local histories at the village, county, and regional levels (Zouping county in Shandong, the Wanxi area of Southwestern Henan), in family history (the Liangs of Guilin), and social history (Chinese banditry 1880-1950) the connections between political/social realms and the intellectual/cultural, as ma...

all areas of Chinese studies, including modern and classical Chinese languages and pre-modern history

Modern China, British Empire, imperialism and colonialism, global studies

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, PhD. PhD Degree: December 1986. Major Field: Chinese History. Concentration: Late Imperial China. Thesis: Guest Ritual and Interdomainal Relations in the Late Qing. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Masters Degree: May 1979. Major Field: Modern Chinese History, 1644-present. Thesis: Reflections of a Changing Society: A Comparative Stud...

Professor, Department of History and the New Collegiate Division, University of Chicago Director, International Studies Program (now Global Studies), the College, University of Chicago, 2004-present Senior Lecturer, the College, University of Chicago, 2004-2008 Chair, Curriculum in International and Area Studies, University of North Carolina,1999-2004 Associate Professor of History, University ...

gender and sexuality and the intersection of literature and medicine, particularly the case history

Ph.D 1988, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. M.A. 1983, Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University B.A. 1982, magna cum laude with highest honors, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

2014- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in Chinese Literature, The University of Chicago 2002-2014 Professor of Chinese Literature, The University of Chicago 1994- 2002 Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, The University of Chicago (tenured 1996) 1993-94 Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University 1990-93 Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University 1989-9...

Chinese Buddhist art, Chinese ceramics and material culture, and cultural interactions and political rhetoric in the production of art in medieval China

Ph.D University of Chicago – Art History

better understanding the processing and neural mechanisms that support the rapid, real-time construction of sophisticated linguistic representations. sentence processing, including syntax, semantics and discourse comprehension Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Syntax, Semantics/Pragmatics, Chinese

2005 PhD. in Linguistics, Michigan State University. Dissertation: Some Topics on Comparative Constructions 1999 BA. in English Language and Literature, Beijing University, Beijing, China

2010 – Assistant Professor in Linguistics, University of Chicago 2009 – 2010 Assistant Professor in Linguistics, University of Victoria, Canada 2007 – 2009 Post-doctoral researcher, Linguistics Department, Harvard University 2005 – 2007 Post-doctoral researcher, Linguistics Department, University of Maryland 2004 – 2005 Visiting Lecturer, English Department, University of Michigan at Flint

Intellectual, material, and visual cultures of Chinese religion, ca. 700-1200; manuscripts and archaeology of Dunhuang and the eastern “silk roads.” the history of religious practice in China and eastern Central Asia during the period stretching from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries. the study of visual and material sources, especially of the manuscripts, xylographs, and objects of person...

Chinese Language Testing and Assessment;Curriculum and Language Activities Design; Task-Based Language Teaching in Chinese Classrooms; Extensive Reading and Vocabulary Learning; Applying Modern Technology in Chinese Classrooms.

Chinese Studies

the archeology of Bronze Age China, including topics in craft specialization and production, especially section-mold casting technology, and the rise of social complexity, inter-regional interaction, and state formation in ancient China.

BA from the Department of Chinese Literature at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan master’s and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Arizona and Harvard University