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Wan-Ching-Hsieh

Given Name: 
Wan-Ching
Family Name: 
Hsieh
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Rank: 
Instructor II
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2730 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-648-0849
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
wanhsieh@pitt.edu
Region: 
China
Area of specialization: 
Chinese language instruction
Qualifications: 
M.S. Ed., University of Pennsylvania, 2009

Fan-Fan

Given Name: 
Fan
Family Name: 
Fan
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Rank: 
Instructor II
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2730 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-648-0849
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
fanfan@pitt.edu
Region: 
China
Area of specialization: 
Chinese
Qualifications: 
M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, 2011

William B.-Crawford

Given Name: 
William B.
Family Name: 
Crawford
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Rank: 
Part-Time Faculty
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2709 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-624-5568
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
China
Japan
Email Address: 
wcrawford@katz.pitt.edu
Region: 
East Asia
Area of specialization: 
<p>Business; Chinese Language; Chinese Literature; Japanese Literature; Research in East Asia; Freshman Studies; Comparative Literature</p>
Qualifications: 
PhD, Indiana University, 1972
Publications: 

2005    “China’s Management Buyouts in Fiction and Fact”: Part of on-campus lecture series sponsored by Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies

 

“The Blizzard Leaves no Trace: Putting a Popular Spin on Economic Reality,” presented for Panel 23: “Idealism Besieged: Chinese Anti-Corruption Fiction as a Response to Social Change”, at the 34th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies.

 

2004   “Penetrating the Cultural Context of Business from Within: Cultural Data-Mining for Expatriates,” open lecture at National Dong Hwa University School of Management, Taiwan.

“Maintaining Local Sensitivity Amid Global Diversity in Human Resources Management”: seminar presentation/discussion, National Dong Hwa University Graduate Program in Management, Taiwan 

 

Robert D.-Drennan

Given Name: 
Robert D.
Family Name: 
Drennan
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Rank: 
Distinguished Professor
Department: 
Anthropology
Office: 
3302 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
drennan@pitt.edu
Region: 
East Asia
Area of specialization: 
<p>Global Comparative Study of the Origins and Development of Complex Societies (especially chiefdoms); Archeological Data Analysis; Regional Settlement Analysis; Household; Archeology; Community Studies; China</p>
Biography: 
<p>Robert Drennan is an archaeologist engaged in the comparative analysis of early complex societies from their beginnings in characteristics humans share with many other species to the enormous diversity of organizational patterns displayed by regional chiefdoms around the world. Topics emphasized in his research include regional settlement and demography, community structure at all scales, household archaeology, quantitative data analysis, spatial analysis, and GIS. These topics are all involved in his fieldwork in China, Mesoamerica, and northern South America.</p>
Qualifications: 
PhD, University of Michigan, 1975
Publications: 

2012   Archaeology as a Social Science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

 

2012   Comparative Archaeology: A Commitment to Understanding Variation. In The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, edited by Michael E. Smith, pp. 1–3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

 

2012   Challenges for Comparative Study of Early Complex Societies. In The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, edited by Michael E. Smith, pp. 62–87. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

 

James A.-Cook

Given Name: 
James A.
Family Name: 
Cook
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Rank: 
Adjunct Associate Professor
Staff
Department: 
History
Office: 
4112 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-7372
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
China
Email Address: 
jacook@pitt.edu
Region: 
China, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan
Area of specialization: 
<p>Impact of Overseas Chinese on the development of modern China and the environmental history of northwestern China</p>
Staff Title: 
Associate Director
Biography: 
<p>James Cook is currently the Associate Director of the Asian Studies Center. James was born and raised in Southeast Asia, until moving to Long Island and San Francisco in his teenage years. As an undergraduate he studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he wrote his thesis on China&rsquo;s foreign policy in Southeast Asia. After completing his M.A. in Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, he studied at Peking University. He completed his Ph.D. at San Diego in 1998 in East Asian history. After 13 years at Central Washington University in the Department of History and as Director of the Asian Studies Program, he joined ASC. His research interests include the impact of Overseas Chinese on the development of modern China and the environmental history of northwestern China. He works extensively in China, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan.</p> <p>Dr. Cook has just published a new edited collection. <em>Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1789-Present</em> is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. The introduction provides an overview of key issues in the development of visual culture in China over the last 200-300 years, while each chapter is an original scholarly study of a specific topic providing chronological coverage for that period. Topics include: Qing court ritual, peasant rebellions, folk art, modern urban media such as illustrated sports magazines and movies, Great Leap Forward film, visual commemorations of the Cultural Revolution, Overseas Chinese culture, and the Shanghai 2010 expo.</p>
Qualifications: 
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1998
Publications: 

2014    Cook, James, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer, eds. Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1889-Present. New York: Lexington Press.

 
2013    “China's New Sorrow: Water-Management Policies, Environmental Degradation, and Salar-Tibetan Minority Relations in Qinghai Province,” Twentieth Century China. (Co-authored with student authors Derek Huls, Marc Janke, and Yesenia Gallardo.)
 
2011    “A Transnational Revolution: Sun Yatsen, Overseas Chinese, and the Revolutionary Movement in Xiamen, 1900-12,” in Sun Yat-sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution, ed. Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan, 127-162. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
 
Staff Ranking: 
B