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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.

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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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Nancy Berliner

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Research interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese painting; Chinese architecture 

Maggie Bickford

Brown University

Research interests: Song manuscript culture; imperial Song management of China’s cultural legacy; auspicious visuality in China; "Bird-and-Flower Painting in Song China: An Aesthetic of Information and its Visual Outcomes"

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Barry Bloom

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

Research interests: infectious diseases, vaccines,global health; the immune response to tuberculosis, a disease that claims more than two million lives each

Jonathan Brookfield

Tufts University

Research interests: Chinese business environments, Asian business groups, business networks, political economy

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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

Susan H. Bush

Independent Scholar

Research interests: revising "Expressive Content in Early Chinese Painting," article on Mi-Sima handscroll for Archives of Asian Art

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Lydia Chen

Associate Director
p: 617-384-6606

Lydia Chen received her master's degrees in Asian studies and journalism from the University of California at Berkeley where she produced a short video documentary titled Inner Visions: Avant-Garde Art in China. She lived in Beijing from 1997 to 2003 and worked at the Beijing Lufthansa Center, the American Chamber of Commerce in China, and the International School of Beijing. Lydia joined Harvard in 2008, after five years at Stanford University.

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