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William C. Kirby (柯偉林)

William C. Kirby (柯偉林)

Director

中文版  William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.  He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor.  He serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund. A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby's work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context.

Regina Abrami

Regina Abrami

Senior Fellow and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Business School Immersion Experience Program, Harvard University

Research interests: Chinese business and globalization; Industrialization in East and Southeast Asia; the political economy of Vietnam and China; economic reform in closed political systems; globalization

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William P. Alford

William P. Alford

Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law; Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies; Director of East Asian Legal Studies; Chair of the Project on Disability at Harvard Law School

Research interests: Chinese law and legal history; legal aspects of international trade and technology transfer; the legal profession; human rights in East Asia; transnational lawyering, U.S.-China relations

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Jennifer Altehenger 李悅歆

Jennifer Altehenger 李悅歆

An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow

Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Oxford University
Ph.D., 2010, Heidelberg University, Modern Chinese Studies

Research:  “Love, Law and Legality: Legal Education Campaigns and the Marriage Law in the PRC" Course (History Department): Law, Society and (Popular) Culture in Modern China and East Asia

Bridie Andrews

Bentley University

Research interests: history of medicine, science studies, "Handbook of Chinese Medical Literature"
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Qianshen Bai

Qianshen Bai

Boston University

Research interests: Wu Dacheng (1835-1902) and the modern fate of Chinese literati culture; Chinese calligraphy, painting, seal carving, antique collecting
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Zachary I Barter (巴瑞啟)

Zachary I Barter (巴瑞啟)

PhD candidate, Government

Zachary Barter’s research interests include the phenomenon of private education in China, political socialization through education, and the national politics of education. He will be based in Beijing or Hangzhou.

Nancy Berliner

Peabody-Essex Museum

Research interests: Chinese art, particularly 18th, 19th and  20th centuries, Chinese vernacular arts and architecture, Qianlong architecture and gardens

Maggie Bickford

Brown University

Research interests: Song manuscript culture, imperial Song management of China’s cultural legacy, auspicious visuality in China
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Roy Bing Chan 陳江北

Roy Bing Chan 陳江北

An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, College of William and Mary
Ph.D., 2009, University of California Berkeley, Comparative Literature

Research:  “A Reflection of Sovereignty: Transnational Desire and Revolutionary Utopia in Chinese and Russian Cultures.”
Course (Comparative Literature): Literary Realisms in China and Russia

Barry Bloom

Barry Bloom

Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, HSPH

Research interests: infectious diseases, vaccines,global health; the immune response to tuberculosis, a disease that claims more than two million lives each year.
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Felix Albrecht Boecking 博思源

Felix Albrecht Boecking 博思源

An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2011)

Lecturer of Modern Chinese Economic and Political History, University of Edinburgh; PhD, Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, 2008 Dr. Boecking is completing a book manuscript titled “No Great Wall—Trade, Tariffs and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945.”

Peter K. Bol (包弼德)

Peter K. Bol (包弼德)

Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; founding Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis; Chair of the China Biographical Database Project, Harvard University

 Research interests: history of China’s cultural elites from the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties; geospatial analysis in teaching and research; China Biographical Database project; Center for Geographic Analysis; China Historical Geographic Information Systems project
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Cynthia J. Brokaw

Brown University

Research interests: Chinese book history, Ming-Qing
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Jonathan Brookfield

Tufts University

Research interests: economics and politics of the PRC’s development, with a special focus on PRC development relative to Singapore and Taiwan, business groups in Taiwan, Chinese business environments, Asian business groups, expansion efforts of foreign brewers in the PRC
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