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Faculty Profiles

Humanities

Jessey Choo

Jessey Choo

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Research Interests: cultural history of medieval China
Tao JIANG

Tao JIANG

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Research Interests: Classical Chinese philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy
Suhkee LEE

Suhkee LEE

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Research Interests: Chinese social and intellectual history of the middle period
Peng LIU

Peng LIU

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Research Interests: Fiction and Drama in Late Imperial China, Chinese Buddhist Hagiographies, Daoist Magic
Xun LIU

Xun LIU

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Research Interests: history of late imperial and modern China, especially Daoism
Weijie SONG

Weijie SONG

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Research Interests: modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film
Wendy Swartz

Wendy Swartz

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Research Interests: medieval Chinese literature and comparative literature
Xiaojue WANG

Xiaojue WANG

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Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature; the cultural Cold War; Chinese-German intellectual connections; the Sinophone South; film and media studies; sound studies; sonic environmentalism; gender and sexuality
Jenny Yuan-Chen YANG

Jenny Yuan-Chen YANG

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Research Interests: pragmatics, semantics and syntax of Mandarin Chinese

Social Sciences

Xian HUANG

Xian HUANG

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Research Interests: comparative politics, Chinese politics
Yanhong JIN

Yanhong JIN

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Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Food Safety, Marketing, Biosecurity, Environmental and Resource Economics
Lei LEI

Lei LEI

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Research Interests: social determinants of health, family dynamics, and social inequality in different societies, including China, India, and the U.S.
Carl Pray

Carl Pray

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Research Interests: Science and technology policy with specific interests in biotechnology applied to agriculture, food and biofuels; Food and agricultural policy; Economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries
Jesse Rodenbiker

Jesse Rodenbiker

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Research Interests: environmental governance, urban geography, political ecology, sustainable development, East Asia, China
Bingxiao WU

Bingxiao WU

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Research Interests: health economics, Chinese economy

Professional Schools

Chien-Chung HUANG

Chien-Chung HUANG

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Research Interests: international social work, nonprofit management and philanthropy, social welfare policy, poverty and welfare reform
Mingwei LIU

Mingwei LIU

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Research Interests: comparative employment relations and human resource management with a focus on China
Nancy Yunhwa RAO

Nancy Yunhwa RAO

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Research Interests: gender and music, sketch studies, music modernism, cultural fusion in music, racial representations, and the music history of early Chinese Americans
Tanja Sargent

Tanja Sargent

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Research Interests: student-centered pedagogical and curricular reform in China
Mi SHIH

Mi SHIH

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Research Interests: urban planning in China in the post-reform era

East Asian Library

Tao YANG

Tao YANG

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East Asian Librarian

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