China | Asian Studies Center

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:

Journalism; travel writing; China; nonfiction writing; new media

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:

Chinese History and Culture

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.

Daqing-He

Given Name:

Daqing

Family Name:

He

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

Information Science

Office:

614 Information Science Building

Office phone number:

412-624-2477

Regional specialty:

China

Email Address:

daqing@sis.pitt.edu

Region:

China

Area of specialization:

Information retrieval and interactive retrieval-system design; user-modeling and adaptive Web-search system design and analysis; computational-linguistics and natural-language processing.

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2001

Publications:

2013 “Comparing social tags with subject headings on annotating books: a study comparing the information science domain in English and Chinese”, Journal of Information Science.

2012 Undergraduate Students’ Interaction with Online Information Resources in Their Academic Tasks: A Comparative Study. Aslib Proceedings

2012 A Study of Relevance Feedback Techniques in Interactive Multilingual Information Access Library Hi Tech

Katheryn-Linduff

Given Name:

Katheryn

Family Name:

Linduff

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Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Department:

History of Art and Architecture

Office:

128 Frick Fine Arts Building

Office phone number:

412-648-2409

Regional specialty:

East Asia

China

Email Address:

linduff@pitt.edu

Region:

China

Area of specialization:

Early Chinese art history and archaeology; Eurasian archaeology

Biography:

Katheryn M. Linduff joined the faculty in 1973 and specializes in Eurasian and East Asian Art history and archaeology and holds appointments in both HAA and Anthropology (in Archaeology) and has guided PhD students in both Art History and Archaeology. She is especially interested in the rise of complex society, and especially in the interplay of ethnic, cultural and gender identity with economic and political change in antiquity. Her study of early China and Inner Asia has led to many books and papers, the most recent of which include Monuments, Metals and Mobility: Trajectories of Complexity in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppe, with Bryan Hanks (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Are All Warriors Male? Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe, with Karen S. Rubinson (AltaMira Press/Roman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc., 2008); The Beginnings of Metallurgy from the Urals to the Yellow Rivers, Katheryn M. Linduff (Mellen Press. 2004); Gender and Chinese Archaeology, AltaMira Press, 2004 [in English] 2006 [in Chinese]; The Emergence of Metallurgy in China, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. She has conducted a regional settlement survey in eastern Inner Mongolia (see: The Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Research Project, Regional Archaeology in Eastern Inner Mongolia: A Methodological Exploration. Science Press 2003) that aimed to reconstruct social and political organization across the region from the late Neolithic (c. 4000 BCE) through to about 200 CE. Her current projects include a book Through the Looking Glass: Visualizing Place and Others in China, including sections on ‘Dynastic Leaders and Other Ethnics in Antiquity’; The Construction of Identity in the pre-Tang; Remaining Sogdian in China; Self-definition, the Wenji scrolls and the Song; a collaborative project on the Bronze Age of Dynastic China in the late Shang and Zhou and Interaction with their northern neighbors with Cao Wei and Sun Yan; and another collaborative project with Karen S. Rubinson on workshop practices, production and trade to and from China across Eurasia between 4th c. BCE and 2nd c. CE.

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1972

Publications:

2013 “Imperial Expansion in the Late Warring States and Han Dynasty Periods: A Case Study from South Central Inner Mongolia,” with Gregory Indrisano, in Archaeological Histories and Anthropological Interpretations of Imperialism, Gregory E. Areshian (ed.), Cotson Institute of Archaeology, UCLA Press

2013 “Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia,” with Karen S. Rubinson, in A Companion to Gender Prehistory, Diane Bolger (ed.), London: Wiley-Blackwell

2012 “Ritualization of Weapons in a Contact Zone: Between the Past and the Present, with Yang Jianhua, in the Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions, Charles W. Hartley, G. Bike Yazicioglu, and Adam T. Smith, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Minglu-Gao

Given Name:

Minglu

Family Name:

Gao

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

History of Art and Architecture

Office:

213 Frick Fine Arts Building

Office phone number:

412-648-2416

Regional specialty:

East Asia

China

Email Address:

minglu@pitt.edu

Region:

China

Area of specialization:

Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art

Biography:

Gao Minglu has been an active critic, curator, and scholar of contemporary Chinese art since the mid 1980s. His exhibitions on the subject are among the most important ever assembled in the U.S. and China. His many publications explore the changing relationship between global art movements and Chinese tradition.

Qualifications:

PhD, Harvard University, 1999

Publications:

2011 Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art MIT Press.

2009 Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese “Abstract Art” Barcelona: La Cáxia Foundation.

2005 The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art New York and Beijing: The Albright Knox Art Gallery and China Millennium Museum.

Stephanie-Wang

Given Name:

Stephanie

Family Name:

Wang

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Rank:

Associate Professor

Department:

Economics

Office:

4906 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-383-8157

Regional specialty:

China

Email Address:

swwang@pitt.edu

Region:

China

Qualifications:

PhD, Princeton Unviersity, 2008

Publications:

Forthcoming Imperfect Choice or Imperfect Attention? Understanding Strategic Thinking in Private Information Games. Review of Economic Studies

2012 Speculative Overpricing in Asset Markets with Information Flows (with Thomas R. Palfrey), Econometrica, 80(5), 1937-1976.

2012 Shared Visual Attention Reduces Hindsight Bias (with Daw-An Wu, Shin Shimojo, and Colin Camerer), Psychological Science, 23(12), 1524-1533.

Thomas G.-Rawski

Given Name:

Thomas G.

Family Name:

Rawski

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Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Department:

Economics

Office:

4256 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-7062

Regional specialty:

East Asia

China

Email Address:

tgrawski@pitt.edu

Region:

East Asia, China

Area of specialization:

Economy of China

Qualifications:

PhD, Harvard University

Publications:

2011 “Can China Sustain Rapid Growth Despite Flawed Institutions?” Chapter 5 in In Search of China’s Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus, ed. S. Philip Hsu and Suisheng Zhao. London: Routledge

2011 “Human Resources and China’s Long Economic Boom,” Asia Policy no. 12 (July 2011): 33-78. Chinese version in Jingjixue jikan (China Economic Quarterly) 10.4: 1153-1186.

2011 “Is China's Development Success Transferable?” Chapter 15 in Reform and Development: What Can China Offer to the Developing World? ed. Ho-Mou Wu and Yang Yao. London and New York: Routledge

Yi-Xu

Given Name:

Yi

Family Name:

Xu

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Rank:

Associate Professor

Department:

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Office:

2727 Cathedral of Learning

Office phone number:

412-624-4923

Regional specialty:

China

Email Address:

xuyi@pitt.edu

Region:

China

Area of specialization:

Second Language Acquisition of Chinese (including using psycholinguistic approaches in SLA syntax); Reading and Writing in Chinese as a Foreign Language; Computer-assisted Language Learning; Computer-mediated Communication in Foreign Language Teaching; Proficiency Assessment in Chinese as a Foreign Language; Corpus Linguistics and Chinese Functional Grammar; Chinese as a Foreign Language (all levels); SLA and Linguistic Courses

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Arizona, 2009

Publications:

2014 The effect of radical-based grouping in character learning in Chinese as a foreign language. The Modern Language Journal, 98(3). (First and corresponding author)

2014 "Processing difficulties of relative clauses in Chinese as a second language." Second Language Research.

2014 "A corpus-based functional study of shi…de constructions." Chinese Language and Discourse.

Cecile Chu-Chin-Sun

Given Name:

Cecile Chu-Chin

Family Name:

Sun

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Office:

113D Old Engineering Hall

Office phone number:

412-624-8106

Regional specialty:

China

Email Address:

csun@pitt.edu

Region:

China

Area of specialization:

Chinese-Western Comparative Literature; Classical Chinese Poetry; Classical Chinese Literature; Chinese and Western Literary Criticism; Traditional Chinese Thought Systems; Aesthetics; Creative Writing (primarily in Chinese)

Qualifications:

PhD, Indiana University, 1982

Publications:

2013 “[Professor Sun Chu-chin on the Study of Chinese-Western Comparative Literature],” [Chinese Studies Abroad, No. 2] (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press)

2012 “An Interview with Professor Cecile Chu-chin Sun on the contemporary trends of Chinese-Western Comparative Literature,” International Review of Chinese Studies (San Francisco: Long River Press).

2012 Essay on the commemorative celebration of the moving of the Daxia University (the former South China Normal University) campus to Chishui during the Sino-Japanese War period], read by the Vice President at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Kun-Qian

Given Name:

Kun

Family Name:

Qian

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Rank:

Associate Professor

Department:

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Office:

2702 Cathedral of Learning

Office phone number:

412-624-5577

Regional specialty:

China

Email Address:

qiankun@pitt.edu

Region:

China

Area of specialization:

Modern Chinese Literature and Intellectual History; Empire studies; Chinese Film and Film Studies; Gender and Minority Studies

Qualifications:

PhD, Cornell University, 2009

Publications:

2013 “Gendering National Imagination: Heroines and the Return of the Foundational Family in Shanghai during the War of Resistance to Japan,” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

2013 Remembering and Forgetting in the Postnational and Pre-national Era: Recent Chinese Films on the War of Resistance to Japan, Culture Studies

2013 Staging Empire: Historical Plays in Mao’s China, Modern Chinese Literature Criticism