Associates in Research

Research interests: Existential philosophy, ritual and visual culture of Daoism, and philosophy of truth and the subject

Research interests: History of acupuncture; history of international trade in materia medica; traditional medicine and intellectual property rights

Research interests: Early modern China's social, cultural, and legal history; East Asian maritime history

Research interests: Chinese book culture; Ming-Qing history

Research interests: Cosmopolitan and environmental bases for rethinking the Sinosphere; Intersectional cosmopolitanism in Taiwan; Women in the 17th–21st centuries: marriage and kinship, footbinding, household economies, public-sphere visibility, rural-to-urban migrants; Identities: ethnic, gender, national, and cosmopolitan; China and Taiwan

Research interests: The personal history of China’s “only-children” pursuing higher education, career opportunities and life exploration in America.

Research interests: Environmental, social and legal history; late imperial and modern Chinese history; history of Tibet and northwest China

Research interests: rise of Chinese political modernity; transformation of politics, culture, philosophy, and religion in modern China; interplay between traditional Chinese learning and Western philosophy

Research interests: Comparative politics, political economy, state-business relations, capitalism, and economic policies

Research interests: origins of Chinese Daoism; early Chinese thought

Research interests: Chinese foreign policy, authoritarianism, surveillance, strategy, internal security

Research interests: The collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s China, 1944-1948: hyperinflation and its consequences

Research interests: Sino-Vietnamese Naval History

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

Research interests: Canada-China relations; second installment of the John Fairbank biography; China's growing presence and influence in domestic affairs in the Asia Pacific region