2004-05 Queens’ College, Cambridge, Diploma in Theology: Distinction 1996-99 Magdalen College, Oxford, DPhil. in Oriental Studies; AHRB Studentship‘The Late Qing Courtesan Novel as Text and Fiction’ 1995-96, Harvard University, Dept. East Asian Lang. and Civ. Kennedy Memorial Scholarship 1991-95 Queens’ College, Cambridge MA Hons. Oriental Studies: First Class
2014-, Associate Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology 2009-, Assistant Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology, Yale Divinity School Director of MAR in Asian Religions. Courtesy appointment in East Asian Languages and Literatures; Member of Council on East Asian Studies. Courses taught include: Introduction to East Asian Theology; Chinese Protestantism 1800-2010; Approaches to Chri...
Asian Theology; Chinese Literature and Theology; Chinese Christian Scriptures
Buddhism in East Asia; Zen Buddhism; Ritual in East Asian Buddhism; Mysticism and Meditation in Buddhism and East Asia; Chinese Buddhist Studies; Chinese Buddhist Texts
PhD, Buddhist Studies (Berkeley, 2012) MA, Asian Studies (Berkeley, 2006) BA, Mathematics (Berkeley, 1998)
Assistant Professor. Yale University, Department of Religious Studies. 2015–present. Lecturer. University of Bristol, Department of Religion and Theology. 2012–2015.
comparative studies of poetry, literary criticism, gender studies, cultural theory / aesthetics.
1978: Ph.D., Princeton University — Major: Classical Chinese Literature (Advisors: Yu-kung Kao, Andrew H. Plaks, and F. W. Mote); Minor: Comparative Literature (Advisors: Earl Miner and Ralph Freedman) 1976: M.A., Princeton University — Major: Classical Chinese Literature; Minor: Comparative Literature. 1972: M.A., South Dakota State University — Major: English Literature. 1971: M.L.S., Rutgers...
October 2009–Present: Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University. (Chairperson of the Department, 1991–1997, January–June 2015; Director of Graduate Studies, 1984–1991; July 1998–December 2000; January– December 2003; 2008–2009; January–June, 2012; 2013–2014; 2019-2020) . (On the affiliated Faculty of the Department of Comparative Literature, 2001–20...
B.A., Swarthmore College, 2000 M.A., Sheffield University, 2006 Ph.D., Princeton University, 2012
Peter C. Perdue
Chinese History; Qing Dynasty; Qing Conquest of Central Asia; Grain Markets in China; Agricultural Development; Environmental History; Modern Chinese and Japanese Social and Economic History; History of Frontiers; World History
History Department, Yale University, Stanley Woodward Professor of History, 2017-present Professor of History 1998-2017 Associate Professor 1993-1998 Assistant Professor 1988-1993
China to 1600; Chinese Religious and Legal History; Social History of the Silk Road
Chinese Language
Anne Underhill
East Asian and Chinese Archaeology; Regional Settlement and Economic Organization during Late Prehistoric and Early Bronze Age Periods in Rizhao Area of Southeastern Shandong; Craft Production; Ceramics; Exchange Systems; Diet; Mortuary Ritual; Ethnic Minority Cultures of China; Museum Anthropology
Ph.D. University of British Columbia, 1990
Chinese Language
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., Political Science, 2016 M.A., Political Science, 2010 Yale University M.A., East Asian Studies, 2008 B.A., English Language and Literature, 2004
Yale University: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2017-present Faculty Affliate: MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Council on East Asian Studies, and The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Po-litical Economy Stanford University: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, 2016-2017
Chinese Language
Chinese Language
Chinese Language
Ph. D., East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University, 1998-2001 M.A., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley (also Advancement to Ph.D. Candidacy with Distinction), 1995-1996 B.A., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley (with Highest Honors), 1991-1995
Chair, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, 2014- Professor of Chinese Literature & Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2014- Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 2011-2014 Associate Professor of Chinese Li...
Summer, 2010 – Present Master of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Middlebury College, Summer School 7-2000 Master of Arts, Economic Law, Capital University of Economic and Business, Beijing, China 7-1997 Bachelor of Arts, Economic Law. Valedictorian, Capital University of Economic and Business, Beijing, China
Harvard Beijing Academy, BEIJING, CHINA 2009/6-8: Lecture instructor, Course head of Second Year Chinese Responsibilities: Plan the curriculum for the class; Supervise and train 18 drill instructors; Design classroom interactive activities; Make dictations, quizzes, tests and final exams DUKE STUDY IN CHINA, BEIJING, CHINA 2008/6-8: Lecture instructor, Coordinator of Fourth Year Chinese Respons...
Interested in teaching elementary and intermediate Chinese, curriculum development, learning and using technology in classroom activities.
Chinese Language
Odd Arne Westad
Modern International and Global History; History of Eastern Asia since the 18th Century
Focuses on the development and changes of early Chinese imperial parks and gardens, from the Shang dynasty (circa 1556 to 1046 BC) to the Six Dynasties (220-589 AD). Writes on Chinese literature, art and archaeology of the Three Kingdoms (220-280 AD) and Six Dynasties periods. Teaches Literary Chinese, Sinological Methods (graduate), and courses on Chinese art, gardens, and literature.
Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1999. Dissertation: “A Separate Space, A New Self: Representations of Rural Spaces in Six Dynasties Literature and Art.” Fields in Classical Chinese Poetry and Early Chinese Art. (Advisors: Stephen Owen and Wu Hung) MA, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1994. Exchange Scholar, East Asian Languages and C...
2012- Present Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University 2018-2019 Director of Undergraduate Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College, East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature. Jye Chu Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies, 2007- 2011. 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, East As...
Chinese Language
Communication University of China（中国传媒大学）, Beijing 2009 – 2012 Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2004 – 2007 M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2000 – 2004 B.A. in Chinese language and Literature
*Yale University, CT 7/2016 – Senior Lector in East Asian Languages and Literatures: · Course taught included: CHNS 110, 120, 150, 151 · New course developed: CHNS 172: Chinese for Scholarly Conversation (Fall 2018) *Princeton University, NJ 9/2012 – 6/2016 Lecturer in East Asian Studies, Chinese Program: · Designed syllabus, developed lesson plans and prepared teaching materials · Conducted in...
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Ph.D., Modern Chinese History, November 2009 A.M., History, June 2005 Dissertation: “Antiquity in Revolution: Cultural Relics in Twentieth Century Shanghai.” Committee: Philip Kuhn, William Kirby, and Henrietta Harrison Yale University, New Haven, CT. B.A., History, magna cum laude with distinction, May 2000 Schrader Prize in the Humanities
Yale University, New Haven, CT. Assistant Professor, 2015-present The Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for China Studies, Hong Kong. Assistant Professor, 2013-2015 University of Kentucky Department of History, Lexington, KY. Assistant Professor, 2009-2012 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Core Curriculum, History Department, Program in East Asian Studies, and Extension School. Teaching F...
Modern China, Cultural Revolution, Material Culture, Urban History
Chinese Social Anthropology; Historical and Ethnographic Fieldwork in South China and Hong Kong; Socialist and Post-Socialist Transformations; Revival of Market Towns, Community Festivals, and Rituals; Migration and Vernacular Modernity; Rural-Urban Divide in China; Cross-Border Dynamics in Hong Kong, Historical and Contemporary Asian Connections
Chinese Language
Early and Medieval Chinese Literature; Chinese Intellectual and Religious Life
Ph.D. in 2016 from Harvard University
Chinese Language
B.A., Chinese University of Hong Kong Ph.D., University of Chicago
Art of Pre-Modern to Contemporary China; Chinese Painting
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 1998. Dissertation: Persons, Personae, Personages: Identity in Mudan ting and Taohua shan. A.B., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College, summa cum laude, 1990. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa junior year.
Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University. 2008 to present. Secondary appointment in Department of Comparative Literature. Director of Graduate Studies, 2009-2010. Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2012 to 2013. Chair, 2013 to present. Visiting Professor, Yale-NUS College. Spring 2015. Consulting Faculty, Yale-NUS College. 2013-2017. V...
Chinese Language; Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture
Chinese Language; Classical Chinese; Pedagogy