Scholars

Years of Affiliation: Visiting Scholar from 2020-2021

Peter Perdue is a Professor of History at Yale University. At the Fairbank Center he will be working on a project examining the comparative history of tea in Asia as well as a studyRead More

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

Years of Affiliation: Graduate Student Associate from 2019-2020; Visiting Scholar from 2020-2021

Xiaoxuan Li holds a Ph.D. from Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her dissertation is entitled “The Fallible Body in Early Medieval China.” At Fairbank Center, sheRead More

Qun Xie is Professor at Shanghai University of Electric Power. Her research focuses on education policy and administration in China. Her current research project is a comparative study on the higher education system in China and the United States. Read More

Lun Zhang is a Professor at University of Cergy-Pontoise. At the Fairbank Center he is working on updating his current manuscript for publication as well as a new project on the question of Chinese modernity and the redefinition of ChineseRead More

Years of Affiliation: Graduate Student Associate 2016-2018, Visiting Scholar 2020-2021

Heng Du is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a book historian specializing in the study of Early China. AtRead 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