Melissa J. Brown

Senior Research Associate, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Melissa Brown is a sociocultural anthropologist and author of Is Taiwan Chinese? (2004) and Explaining Culture Scientifically

Jie Chen

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Jie Chen’s research concerns Chinese literature, history, and culture, with a special emphasis on modern Chinese literature, journalism, and intellectuals in

M. Taylor Fravel

Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT

Taylor Fravel is engaged in several research projects on China’s foreign and security policies. The first examines China’s behavior in its maritime sovereig

Haiyan Li

Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, North China University of Technology

Haiyan Li’s research interests include ancient Chinese literature, especially of the Southern and Tang dynasties, ancient Chinese philosophy, Chinese history, a

Jianli Li

Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies, Henan University

Professor Li's research fields include critical theories of media, contemporary culture, and Chinese literature.

Wei-Ping Lin

Associate Professor of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

Wei-ping Lin’s research focus is on Chinese popular religion, including topics on material culture, spirit mediums, and religious transformation.

Zongbao Ma

Professor of Anthropology, Ningxia University

Zongbao Ma’s research interests include ethnic relations in China. In recent years he has focused on the development of ethnic Hui communities in rural area

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado

Assistant Professor of International Relations, School of Higher Education in Marketing & Communications Management

Rosana Machado’s research concerns informal economy, international trade, personal ties, piracy, intellectual property, human rights, migration, and entrepre

Hongmiao Wang

Associate Professor of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Hongmiao Wang’s primary field of interest is economic growth and reform in China, with a special focus on comparative analysis of long-run development, histo

Lili Wang

Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

Lili Wang is interested in the modern history of Chinese literature and criticism, as well as comparative poetics.

Hongwei Yang

Associate Professor of History, Lanzhou University

Hongwei Yang is interested in the social history of the Amdo region of Tibet, in particular on the relationship between authority structures and sy

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