Scholars

Zhanjun Gao was a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics during 2019-2020 academic year. This year, he will be joining Fairbank Center to further his research in China’s economic policies. Specially, he aims to address China’s financial stability issue.Read More

Peijun Duan is an academic leader on Strategy and the Philosophy of Strategy, and is a senior professor and director of the Strategy Research Section at China’s Central Party School. His research is divided between the US and China, dedicatingRead More

Wei-Ling Chang was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations during the 2018-19 academic year and this year she will continue her work at Harvard at the Fairbank Center. Her research focuses on localism andRead More

Haichao Li teaches at Sichuan University in the Department of Archaeology. His work focuses on China’s Bronze Age, specifically the relation between rare resources and society. While at Harvard, he will be working on a project that examines this issueRead More

Qianqian Li is Associate Professor in the School of History and Culture at Sichuan University. Her current project is entitled Books During China’s Resistance War Against Japan: Graphics Designs, Designers, and Publishing Institutions (1931-1945). She examines books during the SecondRead More

Deqiang Liu’s work focuses on identifying the challenges facing China’s economy and how economic development in China might bring about political transition. At the Fairbank Center, he will address these questions and he will investigate the general relationship between economicRead More

Richard “Rich” Marino is an independent scholar of Chinese economics and former Senior Vice-President, New York Region, for Morgan Stanley, Inc. He will be working on facilitating and extending the thesis in his third and most recent academic book, ChineseRead More

Guogen Qiu is the founder of the Chongyang Group Ltd. At the Fairbank Center, he will be researching and rewriting his textbook, Investments, the 5th edition of which was published in April 2017 by China Renmin University Press. This researchRead More

Jun Wang is Associate Professor at Guizhou University. Her work employs historical anthropology and the history of forestry to examine the growth of forestry in Southwest China, particularly in the Qingshui River Basin of Guizhou. Her project “Forestry Development andRead More

Over the last decade, Dr. Wang has conducted research at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University—among several other universities in South Korea— Her research primarily concerns Northeast Asian studies, particularly focusing on the intersection between China, theRead More

Wen Wen is a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor at Tsinghua University’s Institute of Education and Vice Director of the Centre for Asian Studies at Tsinghua. Her research examines how knowledge is made in Chinese universities. She is interested inRead More

Xin Zhang is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Law of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. She is working on a project entitled “Social Media, Public Participation, and Pressure-induced Legislation in China,” throughRead More

Weini Zhao teaches history at Sichuan University. As a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center, she will be working on official and local sacrifices during the Qing Dynasty. She is especially interested in the sacrificial systems and local practices ofRead More

Dr. Andrew S. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He testifies periodically before Congress and briefs leading officials, including the SecretaryRead More

Saima Manzoor is Visiting Faculty in the Department of Politics and International Relations at International Islamic University, Islamabad. Her research focuses on the Grand Strategy that China is using as a tool to determine its relation with the U.S. inRead More