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University Center for International Studies Asian Studies Center

East Asia

  1. Asia
  2. East Asia

Encompasses China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea

mike-liu

Given Name: 
Michael
Family Name: 
Liu
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Rank: 
Visiting Professor
Department: 
History
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Email Address: 
shl206@pitt.edu
Region: 
Taiwan

Leigh-Tanner

Given Name: 
Leigh
Family Name: 
Tanner
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Rank: 
Adjunct Professor
Department: 
Education
Office: 
5332 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-5008
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Email Address: 
ltanner@pitt.edu
Region: 
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Yun-Oh-Whang

Given Name: 
Yun-Oh
Family Name: 
Whang
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Rank: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Business
Office: 
234 Mervis Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-1710
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Email Address: 
ywhang@katz.pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
Yun-Oh Whang’s research interests include consumer information processing, consumer-product relationships, digital marketing, sports and entertainment marketing, and entrepreneurship.
Qualifications: 
PhD, University of Southern California (2001)
Publications: 

McFarland, Richard and Yun-Oh Whang (2013), “A Psychometric Analysis and Comparison of Three Competing Communication Style Taxonomies,” Journal of Selling (formerly Journal of Selling and Major Account Management), forthcoming.
Whang, Yun-Oh, Dean Koutroumanis, and Amy Brownlee (2013), “Developing Social Media Promotional Strategies in The Casual Dining Restaurant Industry: A Case Analysis of Montegro’s Italian Grille,” Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship.
Whang, Yun-Oh (2012), “When and Why Does the That’s-Not-All Compliance Technique Work?,” Journal of Business and Economics Research, Vol.10, No. 3 (March), 171-178.
Whang, Yun-Oh (2012), “Retail Promotion Strategy Analysis: The Challenges at Bob Evans Restaurants,” Journal of Business Case Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (March/April).

 

Carla-Nappi

Given Name: 
Carla
Family Name: 
Nappi
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Rank: 
Mellon Professor
Department: 
History
Office: 
3904 WWPH
Office phone number: 
412-648-7478
Regional specialty: 
Asia
East Asia
China
Email Address: 
nappi@pitt.edu
Region: 
Area of specialization: 
History of China History of Central Eurasia (especially Manchu studies) Translation History World History Historical Writing and Theory
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Qualifications: 
Ph.D. Princeton, 2006
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Publications: 

“Metamorphoses: Fictioning and the Historian’s Craft,” PMLA 133.1 (2018): 160-165.
“Paying Attention: Early Modern Science Beyond Genealogy,” Journal of Early Modern History 21 (2017): 459-470.
“The Gesture of Photographing” (with Dominic Pettman), thresholds 1 (2017). http://openthresholds.org/1/gestureofphotographing
“A Page at the Orchestra.” In Wendy Doniger, Peter Galison, and Susan Neiman, eds., What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History (De Gruyter, 2016), 221-227.
“Surface Tension: Objectifying Ginseng in Chinese Early Modernity.” In Paula Findlen, ed., Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2013): 31-52.
“Disengaging from ‘Asia’.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society 6.2 (2012): 1-4.
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2009).

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Ruth-Mostern

Given Name: 
Ruth
Family Name: 
Mostern
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Rank: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
History
Office: 
3534 WWPH
Office phone number: 
(412) 648-7460
Regional specialty: 
Asia
East Asia
China
Email Address: 
mostern@pitt.edu
Region: 
Area of specialization: 
History of China World History Spatial History Environmental History
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Qualifications: 
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2003
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Publications: 

Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern:  The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE), 2011 Harvard University Asia Center Monographs distributed by Harvard University Press.

Placing Names:  Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers, Indiana University Press 2016 (edited with Humphrey Southall and Merrick Lex Berman).

Don’t Just Build It, They Probably Won’t Come: Rethinking Data Sharing and the Social Life of Data in the Historical Quantitative Social Sciences, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 10.2 (2016), 205–224 (with Marieka Arksey).

Sediment and State in Imperial China: The Yellow River Watershed as an Earth System and a World System, Nature and Culture 11.2 (Summer 2016), 121-147.

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Raja-Adal

Given Name: 
Raja
Family Name: 
Adal
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Rank: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
History
Office: 
WWWPH 3295
Office phone number: 
412-643-5406
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Japan
Email Address: 
raja.adal@pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
<p>Japanese history, world history</p>
Qualifications: 
PhD, Harvard University (2009)
Publications: 

"Aesthetics and the End of the Mimetic Moment: The Introduction of Art Education in Japanese and Egyptian Schools," Comparative Studies in Society and History 58, no. 4 (October 2016): 982-1003.
“Kanji bunkaen” [Cultural sphere of Chinese characters], “arufabetto” [Alphabet].  Entries in Gendai shakaigaku jiten [Encyclopedia of Contemporary Social Science].  Tokyo: Kōbundō, 2012.
“Japan’s Bifurcated Modernity: Writing and Calligraphy in Japanese Public Schools, 1872-1943.”  Theory, Culture and Society 26, no. 2-3 (2009): 233-247.
“Shakib Arslan’s Imagining of Europe: The Colonizer, the Inquisitor, the Islamic, the Virtuous, and the Friend.”  In Islam in Europe in the Interwar Period: Networks, Status, Challenges.  Edited by Nathalie Clayer and Eric Germain, 156-182.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Michael-Meyer

Given Name: 
Michael
Family Name: 
Meyer
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Rank: 
Professor
Department: 
English
Office: 
CL 609-B
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
China
Email Address: 
mmeyer@pitt.edu
Region: 
China
Area of specialization: 
<p>Journalism; travel writing; China; nonfiction writing; new media</p>
Qualifications: 
MA, University of California, Berkeley
Publications: 

2015  In Manchuria: Journeys Across China’s Northeast Frontier. New York: Bloomsbury.
2012  “Beijing, Forever.” Foreign Policy, September/October 2012.
2011  “China’s Big Zhang!” The New York Times, 2 Jan. 2011.
2009  “What the Chinese Want from Obama.” The New York Times, 20 Feb. 2009.
2008  The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed. New York: Bloomsbury.

Haihui-Zhang

Given Name: 
Haihui
Family Name: 
Zhang
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Department: 
East Asian Library
Office: 
207L Hillman Library
Office phone number: 
412-624-5652
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
China
Email Address: 
haihuiz@pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
<p>Chinese History and Culture</p>
Staff Title: 
Chinese Studies Librarian
Qualifications: 
MLIS, Emporia State University, 1996
Publications: 

2013    A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in English of the Last Thirty Years (Haihui Zhang, Zhaohui Xue, Shuyong Jiang, Lance G. Lugar ed.) The Association for Asian Studies.

 

2013    Valuable Data and Information in Cunzhi: Some Findings, Journal of Society for Chinese Studies Librarians

 

2011    Comparative Experiences in American and Chinese Higher Education-Interviews with Prominent Chinese American Scholars (interviewer and writer) Beijing: Renmin University Press.

 

Yu-Lien (Lotus)-Liu

Given Name: 
Yu-Lien (Lotus)
Family Name: 
Liu
Department: 
East Asian Library
Office: 
420 Hillman Library
Office phone number: 
412-648-1631
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Email Address: 
lliu@pitt.edu
Staff Title: 
Library Senior Specialist
Qualifications: 
MA, University of South Carolina, 1979