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ICS Faculty Julia Andrews Professor Andrews is a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art. Her first book, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China (1994), won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book of the year on modern China. More recently, she served as co-curator and catalogue author (with OSU alumnus Kuiyi Shen) of the Guggenheim Museum's 1998 exhibition A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China, which was shown in New York and Bilbao. She has recently contributed to several exhibition catalogues and anthologies, including Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium Wars to the Cultural Revolution, 1840–1979 (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco) and Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists (Buffalo: State University of New York at Buffalo, Research Center in Art + Culture, 2000). She teaches undergraduate courses on Chinese and Japanese art and topically organized graduate seminars that usually focus on Chinese painting or modern Chinese art. Her graduate students have written theses on topics in Chinese or Japanese art of the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Professor Bender specializes in traditional Chinese performance and performance-connected literature of local Han and ethnic minority cultures in China. He teaches Chinese and East Asian culture courses, a course in Traditional Performance in Contemporary East Asia, and seminars that have included epic and prosimetric literature. Bender has published on a wide variety of subjects, including Suzhou professional storytelling (pingtan) and the oral and written literatures of several Chinese minority cultures. His book on Suzhou storytelling entitled Plum and Bamboo, was published in 2003 by University of Illinois Press. He is currently editing (with Victor Mair) a collection of translations of Chinese local and ethnic oral performance and working with Yi nationality poet Aku Wuwu on a study of traditional and contemporary Yi poetry. An annotated translation entitled Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou Province, China, has recently been published by Hackett Publishing. Professor Brokaw’s teaching interests include courses on Chinese social history, Early China, Modern China, and Women in East Asia. Brokaw is the author of The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2007) and "Tai Chen and His Confucian Program of Learning," in Education and Society in Late Imperial China, edited by Benjamin A. Elman and Alexander Woodside. She has published articles in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, the Newsletter for Modern Chinese History, and Late Imperial China. Her current project is Commerce in Culture: The Book Trade in South China, 1680-1945. Professor Chan’s research interests include Chinese linguistics, with focus on phonetics (particularly with respect to prosody-discourse interface), phonology (synchronic and diachronic), and dialectology. Her research interests and publications also extend to studies on written Cantonese, Chinese regional operas (with their different dialect bases), and Chinese computing, including corpus linguistics and issues concerning concordancing of Chinese e-texts. She is also the creator of Margie Chan’s ChinaLinks, perhaps one of the Web’s most utilized English-language web resources devoted to the study of Chinese. She also serves as the webmaster for the Chinese Language Teacher’s Association (CLTA) website. Professor Chow’s research and teaching interests include China, Foreign Trade and Investment, International Business Transactions, and International Intellectual Property. He was featured on CBS' 60 Minutes II program on January 28, 2004. In "The World's Greatest Fakes“. Professor Chow’s most recent publication "Why China Does Not Take Commercial Piracy Seriously," can be found in Ohio Northern University Law Review, 2006 (32 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 203). Professor Choy’s research and teaching interests involve postcolonial and transnational science studies; politics of nature, space, and environment; theories of culture and politics; Hong Kong; and ethnography. Professor Cooper's research and teaching interests include comparative politics, political economy, and the politics of financial markets, with a focus on China and East Asia. She is completing a book manuscript on the creation of stock exchanges in China. Other current projects examine the impact of WTO membership on Chinese politics and society, including the dynamics of public opinion within China on WTO and globalization, and the prospects for democratization.
Howard Crane Professor Crane is an expert in the field of Islamic art and architecture, with a concurrent interest in the area of Near Eastern archaeology. He has published widely in the field, including numerous entries in the Dictionary of Art on matters Islamic and the Encyclopedia of Islam. He is working on his current book, a translation of 16th century Ottoman biographical texts on the architect Sinan, the Ottoman Michelangelo. Over the years, his research has been supported by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (at Harvard and MIT) and the Institute of Turkish Studies (at Georgetown University). He has also worked extensively as a field archaeologist, having been a surveyor for the Helmand-Sistan Expedition in Afghanistan (Smithsonian Institute 1971–73) and is currently the Islamicist for the Archaeological Survey of Sardis (Turkey 1975–Present). Professor Denton specializes in the fiction and literary criticism of the Republican period (1911-49). He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in modern Chinese literature in translation, Asian American film, and Chinese film, as well as graduate courses and seminars on modern Chinese fiction, the writer Lu Xun, popular culture, and Chinese film. He is especially interested in the inception and formation of a discourse of modernity in the May Fourth period and how that discourse was to some degree informed and shaped by traditional concerns. Professor Denton's edited collection, Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature. 1893-1945, was published by Stanford University Press in 1996. Two years later, his The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling was also published by Stanford. He is associate editor of the Chinese section of The Columbia Companion to Modern East Literature (Columbia, 2003) and a coeditor of China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future (Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002). He has published several articles on museum culture, including one in The China Quarterly, and is presently working on a book on museums and memorial sites in Greater China. Denton is editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and manager of the online MCLC Resource Center, which hosts the MCLC LIST, a listserv devoted to scholarly discussion on the culture of modern and contemporary China. Belton Fleisher was born in 1935 in California. He attended Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1961. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago 1961-65 and joined the Ohio State University faculty in 1965, where he is professor of economics. He spent the year 1963-64 at the London School of Economics. He has published a number of books, including The Economics of Delinquency (1966) and what is considered by many to be the first "modern" labor economics text, Labor Economics: Theory and Evidence (1970). In 1989 and 1990 he taught economics at the Renmin (People's) University of China in Beijing. In 1997 he received a Competitive Research Award for a paper on the Underpricing of Chinese IPO's from the Sandra Ann Morsilli Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research Center for a paper "An Empirical Investigation of Underpricing in Chinese IPOs" (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 1999, with Dongwei Su). He has authored and coauthored over 40 articles in professional journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Education, and China Economic Review and in a number of books and symposia. He has published 7 books and served as editor of a number of symposia, roundtables, and conference proceedings. Since 1990, his research has focused on economic growth and financial markets, and labor and productivity in the Chinese economy. He currently serves as a co-editor of China Economic Review. Meow Hui Goh is interested in aspects of Chinese poetics that are related to prosody, such as the integration of semantic content and tonal patterns, rhyme schemes, or initial and final consonance. She is also interested in experimental Chinese poetic genres, such as palindromic poems (huiwen shi) and tonal poems (shangsheng shi, rusheng shi, etc.). Her studies also explore how the invention and experimentation of these poetic genres in the Southern Dynasties were shaped by the socio-political and cultural environment in the literary salons within which they took place. Her recent article "Tonal Prosody in Three Poems by Wang Rong" appears in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. She offers classes in pre-modern Chinese literature, bibliography, and Classical Chinese. Dr. Heng joined the History Department of the Marion campus as assistant professor. He received a B.A. in history and European Studies from the National University of Singapore, an M.A. in art and archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Hull, UK. Heng taught at the National University of Singapore between 2001 and 2006. His primary research interests include pre-modern economic interaction between Southeast Asia and China, with an integrative approach employing textual and archaeological data, pre-modern state formation of coastal port polities in Maritime Southeast Asia and the history and historiography of Singapore’s past. Professor Hills' research and teaching have taken him to Europe, Russia, China, Japan, southern Africa and most of Latin America. He completed a comparative study of labor markets in South Africa, Mexico and Poland for the book Labour Relations in South Africa (Oxford Press, 2003) and is co-author of Cases in International Business: A Focus on Emerging Markets (West Publishing, 1996). He is author of the book Employment Relations and the Social Sciences (U. of South Carolina Press, 1995), a synthesis of the variety of ways that social scientists have contributed to labor relations theory. He has had a long-standing interest in China, publishing (with Belton Fleisher) "Education and Regional Economic Development in China: The Case of Shanghai," Comparative Economic Studies. 39 (1997-98). Each year Prof. Hills accompanies MBA students on a field study to a different "emerging market", where students visit companies and write cases based on their experience. He is past president of the International Division of the Industrial Relations Research Association and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer to Venezuela (1965-67) and coordinator for the Fisher College Peace Corps - MBA program. Currently, Professor Hills is Academic Director for both the Center for International business Education and Research (CIBER) and International Programs at Fisher College of Business, OSU. Professor Huntington's interest is Buddhist art and iconography throughout Asia and Indonesia. He is primarily interested in Buddhist soteriological methodologies and how they are communicated through the arts. By comparing canonical textual sources, commentarial literature and modern exegetical works an attempt is made to discover the historical development of iconographic systems of communication throughout the Buddhist world. Recently special emphasis has been placed on Himalayan and trans-Himalayan Tantric methodologies and the social and cultural context of Buddhism in those regions. Recent field-work has taken place in Bangladesh and Nepal. Professor Huntington's primary areas of expertise are Buddhist art and artifacts, South Asian art and culture, and photographic documentation. With her husband, John C. Huntington, she has traveled extensively throughout southern Asia—often to India and Nepal—to photograph Buddhist art and artifacts. With nearly 300,000 images available, The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art documents the art and architecture of many Asian countries. This broad collection contains predominantly Buddhist material, but also includes Hindu, Jain, Islamic, and other works. In addition to being the most comprehensive collection of its kind, The Huntington Archive includes the largest photographic archive of Nepali art and architecture in the world. Professor Huntington was the Numata Distinguished Visitor, Balliol College, Oxford, in 1998. She was named distinguished university professor in 1990 and distinguished scholar in 1985. Professor Li serves as Chinese Studies Librarian at the Ohio State University Libraries. He has published articles in Research on Ming & Qing Novels and Wenxian Quarterly, and has recently published two books, Xing shi yin yuan zhuan: An Annotated and Punctuated Edition with an Introduction and a Chinese translation of China, Its Marvel and Mystery. Since 2002, Prof. Li has been involved in Columbus Sister Cities International's (CSCI) activates, such as being a member of the Hefei Committee, and attending CSCI's booth at the 2003 Columbus International Festival. Since 2004, he has also been involved in the Ohio Contemporary Chinese School's activates, as an elected School Administrator, a member of the Parents Committee, and the Editor of school Newsletter. Dr. Liu is a cultural anthropologist studying social imaginaries and Islamic practice in post-Soviet and Chinese Central Asia. Theoretically, his interests include space, phenomenology,
agency, emergence and ethnographic complexity. He just arrived at OSU as assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, having completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. He is currently writing a book, Yearning for the Khan, on how ethnic Uzbeks in the Kyrgyzstani city of Osh conceive of the post-Soviet state and Islam, based on research using vernacular language interviews and ethnographic fieldwork of urban social life. His longer term project is a comparative study of
Soviet and Chinese rule over its Turkic Muslim populations in the 20th century. Professor Qian’s research and teaching areas include demography, family, race and ethnicity, and immigration. His current projects include immigrants' union formation and assortative mating, the impact of individual characteristics and marriage market compositions on mate selection in marriage and cohabitation, racial identification of children born to couples of interracial marriage. Additional research includes fertility behaviors in rural China and changes and prospects of the Chinese family planning program. Professor Reed is a specialist in the history of modern China with particular focus on the period from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. His teaching focuses on the Qing, Republican, and People's Republic periods. Professor Reed's research concentrates on China's modern media, print culture, print capitalism, and print communism. His 2003-05 ICAS Humanities Book Prize winning volume Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 combines the history of technology, business, politics, and culture in the study of modernization in China's largest city. In 2004, Professor Reed was selected as the new editor of Twentieth-Century China, a leading international historical journal of modern China. Recently, he has led historically-oriented summer study tours of OSU undergraduates and other interested parties to China. Professor Shenkar’s research interests include international business, particularly comparative and international management. His special interests include strategic and managerial issues pertaining to international strategic alliances. Geographically, his main region of interest is East Asia, particularly China. He is the editor of several books, most recently the Handbook for International Management Research (2nd edition, University of Michigan Press; with B.J. Punnett) and International Business (John Wiley & Sons, with Yadong Luo). Professor Sieber’s research and teaching interests include literary canon formation, performance, translation, ethics, as well as gender and sexuality. She teaches courses on late imperial Chinese literature, East Asian religions, and East/West cultural relations. She is the author of Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 (Palgrave, 2003) and the editor of Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex Between Women (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). Her current research focuses on the textual migrations that underwrote the formation of academic sinology in early nineteenth-century Europe. She has served concurrently as the director of the Institute for Chinese Studies and the East Asian Studies Center since autumn 2005. In addition to being involved in new Title VI initiatives, she seeks to intensify research, teaching and student exchange cooperation between OSU and institutions in the Chinese-speaking world. Galal Walker is a Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. He also serves as the Director of both the National East Asian Languages Resource Center and the Chinese Flagship Program at the Ohio State University. His chief research and teaching interests are within the field of language pedagogy and issues related to less commonly taught languages. In 2003, Professor Walker became the first recipient in the English speaking world to receive the “China Language and Culture Friendship Award,” from the Ministry of Education of China. Prof. Jianqi Wang specializes in language pedagogy, corpus-based language analysis, multimedia presentation of pedagogical materials, and distance learning. Prof. Wang serves as associate director of the National East Asian Language Resource Center at Ohio State. Prof. Wang's current projects include: Database of Modern spoken Chinese in spontaneous discourse; Perpetual Tutor, a backbone system that supports residence and distance learning of Chinese; and, Portfolio Management and Assessment, a system that supports the evaluation of students in Individualized Instruction, Distance Learning and Study-abroad/Internship programs Udo Will has been appointed as an associate professor in the area of ethnomusicology, thanks to the support of a prestigious Academic Enrichment Award to the School of Music from the university. Dr. Will has held teaching positions at the University of Bielefeld (both in the Departments of Music and Sociology), and at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. He is the President of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, and serves on the editorial board of the British Journal for Ethnomusicology. Professor Wu’s research and teaching interests are within the fields of Asian American History, Asian American Women's History, Modern U.S. History, Women's History, Immigration History, History of the U.S. West, and the 1960s. She has also have been active in developing and promoting the field of Asian American Studies at OSU. Professor Wu’s first book, Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, February 2005), is a biography of Margaret Jessie Chung (1889-1959), the first American-born Chinese female physician. Currently, she is researching and writing a second book manuscript, tentatively titled Radicals on the Road: Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism during the Viet Nam Era. This work explores the international travels of American peace activists and how their encounters abroad both fostered a sense of internationalism, or political solidarity with Third World peoples, yet also perpetuated ideas and fantasies about the “Orient.” Hao Chang Email: chang.1@osu.edu
Chung-min Chen Email: chen.31@osu.edu
David Chen
Wen “Charlie” S. Chern Email: chern.1@osu.edu
Samuel Chu Email: chu.1@osu.edu
Frank Feng-sheng Hsueh
Yan-shuan Lao Email: lao.1@osu.edu
Wen Li Email: li.4@osu.edu
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