Faculty in East Asian Studies

Only courses with a substantial East Asian component have been listed although some faculty may teach other theoretical or methodological courses as well. Not all listed courses are offered in every academic year, and each year new courses are developed.


ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Melissa Brown
Assistant Professor
Research: social and cultural change, ethnic identity, Han-minority relations, Taiwan-China relations
Courses: Identity and Peoples of China; Social Theory in the Anthropological Sciences

Arthur P. Wolf
Professor
Research: Comparative ethnography/sociology of Fukien province and Taiwan; development and distribution of Chinese culture on Taiwan; family organization, property, and population trends in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.
Courses: Marriage and Kinship; Examining Ethnographies

 


ART

Melinda Takeuchi
Professor
Research: Japanese painting; Edo period art; Japanese calligraphy.
Courses: Art and Culture in Asia; Theme and Style in Japanese Art; Painting in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan; Arts of War and Peace; Arts of Zen Buddhism; Seminar: Horses in Chinese, Mongolian, and Japanese Art

Richard Vinograd
Associate Professor, Chair, Art Department
Research
: Chinese landscape painting, Chinese portraiture, Contemporary Chinese Art.
Courses: Chinese Art and Culture; Art in China's Modern Era; Picturing History in China; Later Chinese Painting; Seminar in Sung Dynasty Painting; Seminar in Pictorial Art and Cultural Spaces in Late Ming China


ASIAN LANGUAGES

Fumiko Arao
Lecturer
Courses: Second-Year Modern Japanese, Third-Year Modern Japanese

Kazuko Busbin
Senior Lecturer
Courses: First-Year Modern Japanese

Steven Carter
Professor
Research: Medieval Japanese cultural history, poetry, and poetics. Japanese essay, historical fiction, theoretical issues (e.g. relationship between social and aesthetic).
Courses: Classical Japanese Poetry in Translation, Introduction to Classical Japanese, Readings in Classical Japanese, Japanese Poetry and Poetics.

Marina Chung
Lecturer
Courses: First-Year Modern Chinese; Advanced Chinese Conversation

Yin Chuang
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Research: Teaching of Chinese; Modern Chinese Essays; Chinese Calligraphy
Courses: Chinese calligraphy

Sik Lee Dennig
Lecturer
Courses: Cantonese; First-year Modern Chinese

Hee-Sun Kim
Lecturer, Coordinator of Korean Language Program
Research: Korean language processing, development of computer-assisted intonation teaching tools.
Courses: Korean language (all levels)

Indra Levy
Assistant Professor
Research: Modern Japanese literature; relationship between translation, vernacular realism, and representations of Westernesque women.
Courses: Modern Japanese Narratives; Literature and Film;
Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

Wan Liu
Assistant Professor
Research: Chinese Poetry
Courses: Traditional Chinese Civilization; Chinese Poetry in Translation; Chinese Lyric Aesthetics; Advanced Classical Chinese: Literary Essays; Lyric (shih); Chinese Mythology and Lyrical Imagination; Gender and Genre: Women Poets in Premodern China; Chinese Tz'u Poetry

Hisayo Lipton
Lecturer
Courses: First- and Third-Year Japanese Language, Culture, and Communication

Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk
Lecturer
Courses: Second-Year Japanese Language, Culture and Communication; Advanced Japanese Conversation; Advanced Modern Japanese

William A. Lyell
Associate Professor
Research: Cultural identity in modern China; twentieth-century Chinese literature: Lu Xun, Lao She, Ba Jin, Cao Yu, Mao Dun.
Course: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature in Translation

Yoshiko Matsumoto
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Languages
Research: Japanese pragmatics, bilingualism, honorifics; Japanese linguistics.
Courses: Advanced Modern Japanese; Teaching Asian Languages; Japanese Pragmatics; Introductory Seminar: Language and Gender in Japan--Myths and Reality; The Japanese Language in Culture and Society

Kiyomi Nakamura
Lecturer
Courses: Third-Year Japanese Language, Culture and Communication

James Reichert
Assistant Professor
Research: Modern Japanese literature; literary representations of gender; sexuality and the body; Japanese literary theory
Courses: Modern Japanese Literature in Translation; Romance, Desire, and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Literature; Readings in Classical Japanese; Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

Yu-Hwa Rozelle
Lecturer
Course: First-Year Modern Chinese for Bilingual Students, Beginning Chinese Conversation

Haun Saussy
Associate Professor
Research: Literary theory, early Chinese poetry, comparative literature, didactic and hermeneutic genres.
Courses: Sources of Chinese Poetry; Seminar in Chinese Literary Criticism

Chaofen Sun
Associate Professor
Research: Chinese sentence and word order.
Courses: Classical Chinese; Structure of Modern Chinese; History of Chinese

Yoshiko Tomiyama
Lecturer
Courses: Third-year Japanese Language, Culture and Communication

Huazhi Wang
Lecturer
Courses: First-Year Modern Chinese, Business Chinese

John C. Y. Wang
Professor, Director, Center for Chinese Language and Cultural Studies
Research: The art of Chinese narrative; early Chinese literature; Chinese fiction and drama; Chinese mythology.
Courses: Chinese Fiction and Drama in Translation; Traditional Chinese Fiction; Chinese Drama; Seminar in Chinese Narrative; Seminar in Chinese Literary Criticism

Hong Zeng
Lecturer
Courses: First-Year Modern Chinese

Qi Zhu
Lecturer
Course: Second-Year Modern Chinese for Bilingual Students; Advanced Modern Chinese


BUSINESS

Henri-Claude de Bettignies
Visiting Professor, Business
Research: European vs. American strategic reaction to Japanese globalization; management know-how transfer; ethical behavior and international business.
Courses: Global Competitiveness of the Japanese Corporation; Culture and Management in the Pacific Asian Region

David Montgomery
Professor, Business
Research: Japanese management and technology.
Course: Japanese Marketing


COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

David Palumbo-Liu
Professor
Research: Song poetry, issues of textuality in the western literary tradition.
Courses: Readings in the Asian American Novel; The Lyric in Classical China and the English Romantic Age; Readings in Asian American Short Fiction; The Postmodern Pacific


CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Miyako Inoue
Assistant Professor
Research: Anthropology of Japan; Linguistic Anthropology; Sociolinguistics; Anthropology of Gender
Courses: Japanese Culture and Society; Linguistic Anthropology; Language and Culture; Seminar on Japanese Anthropology

Matthew Kohrman
Assistant Professor
Research: medical anthropology, experience of disability in modern China
Courses: Social Change in Contemporary China: Modernity and the Middle Kingdom, and Health, Disease, and Global Social Change

 

ECONOMICS

Masahiko Aoki
Professor Emeritus
Research: Japan's political economy; the modern Japanese firm; management theory.
Courses: Contemporary Japanese Economic Problems, The Modern Firm in Theory and Practice


EDUCATION

Thomas Rohlen
Professor Emeritus (Research)
Research: Education in Japan, Organization of research, development and business in Japan.


GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Karen C. Seto

Assistant Professor

Research: Socioeconomic and political drivers of land use and land cover change, satellite remote sensing, urbanization in Asia, geographic information science

Courses: Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover, Globalization and Urban Growth in China: From Process to Patterns

 

HISTORY

Gordon Chang
Associate Professor
Research: US-China relations, US-Japan relations, Japanese-American Students at Stanford.
Courses: Introduction to Asian-American History; The United States and East Asia

Peter Duus
Bonsall Professor of History
Research: Japanese imperialism, especially with regards to Korea; Japanese social thought; modern Japanese economic history.
Courses: The Rise of Modern Japan; Japanese Lives: Autobiography and History; Imperialism, Colonialism and National Identity in Modern Japan; Colloquia on Postwar Japan; Modern Japan; United States and Japan

Mark Lewis
Professor of History and Asian Languages
Research: Space and power in early China,the manner in which space (cosmic models, world schemata, idealized administrative systems, etc.) and time (calendars, dynastic sequence, narrative, etc.) were conceptualized in the late Warring States and Han periods as elements of the formation of a world empire.
Courses: China: The Early Empires; The City in Imperial China; Advanced Classical Chinese: Philosophical Texts; Writing in Early China.

Matthew Sommer
Associate Professor
Research: Gender, law and sexuality in late imperial China; comparative history of gender and sexuality; Qing dynasty documents, esp. legal case records.
Courses: Women in Chinese History; China Since 1900; Late Imperial China; Law and Society in Imperial China

Karen Wigen
Associate Professor
Research: early modern Japanese history; Japanese regionalism; landscape and identity; economic geography; historical cartography; geography education
Courses: Historical Geography: Maps in the Early Modern World; Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan


LINGUISTICS

Peter Sells
Professor
Research: Phrasal phonology and phonetics of Japanese; intonation in tonal languages, especially Japanese; East Asian linguistics; phonological theory.
Course: The Structure of Japanese


POLITICAL SCIENCE

John W. Lewis
Professor Emeritis of Chinese Politics
Research: Arms control and disarmament; U.S. China relations; security policy in Asia.

Jean Oi
William Haas Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for East Asian Studies
Research: Comparative politics; Chinese political economy; corporate restructuring and governance in Asia
Courses: Chinese Politics; The Transformation and the Era of Reform in China; Graduate Seminar: Topics in Chinese Politics

Daniel I. Okimoto
Professor
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Studies
Director Emeritus, Asia/Pacific Research Center
Research: High-technology industry in Japan; Japan's political economy; U.S.-Japan relations; state and business interactions.
Courses: Seminar on Japanese Politics; Japanese Foreign Policy; Japan's Political Economy; Rise of Industrial Asia


RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein
Lecturer
Research: Islam in China
Courses: Islam in China; Women and Islam: Evolving Identities in a Changing World; Islam, Gender and Social Change

Carl Bielefeldt
Professor and Chair, Religious Studies
Research: Ch'an and Zen Buddhism.
Courses: Zen Buddhism; Buddhist Yoga; Japanese Buddhism; Religion in Japan; Introductory Seminar: Buddhist Meditation Teachings; Japanese Buddhist Texts; Buddhist Studies Seminar

Bernard Faure
George Edwin Burnell Professor in Religious Studies
Research: Ch'an and Zen Buddhism; Chinese and Japanese popular religion.
Courses: Introduction to Buddhism; Syncretism and Sectarianism in Chinese Buddhism; Ritual in East Asian Buddhism; Speech and Writing in the Buddhist Traditions; Recent Trends in Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Religion

Fabrizio Pregadio Acting Associate Professor
Research: Daoism
Courses:Introduction to Daoism; Views of the Human Body in Daoism; The Study of Daoism; Medieval Daoist Texts

Lee H. Yearley
Professor
Research: Comparative religious ethics and psychology of religion; patterns of religious self-cultivation.
Courses: Character and the Good Life; Eastern and Western Conceptions of the Self; Comparative Religious Ethics, Chuang Tzu


Sociology

Gi-Wook Shin
Associate Professor, APARC Fellow
Research: Comparative Historical Sociology; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Political Economy of East Asia; Korean Society and Politics
Courses: State and Society in Korea; Asia-Pacific Transformation

Andrew Walder
Professor and Chair, Sociology Department, Director, Asia/Pacific Research Center
Research:Chinese political sociology; social stratification, mobility and inequality
Courses:China's Social Transformation; Social Impact of the Chinese Revolution; Seminar: Chinese Communist Revolution

Affiliated Faculty and Scholars

Other faculty and researchers at Stanford have some teaching or research interests related to East Asia. They include:

Takeshi Amemiya
Professor, Economics
Research: Econometrics, econometric studies of the Japanese economy.

Harumi Befu
Professor Emeritus
Research: Japanese social structure; gift giving and social exchange; models of Japanese society; environmental issues; cultural images of Japan

Barton Bernstein
Professor, History
Research: Korean War, US-Japan relations.

Richard Dasher
Lecturer, Director, U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center
Research: Linguistics, history of Japanese Language, machine translation.
Courses: Japanese Business Culture; Reading Technical Japanese

Albert E. Dien
Professor Emeritus
Research: Material culture in the Six Dynasties Period; Military hierarchy in early medieval China; research methods in pre-modern Chinese history; Chinese archaeology; history of Inner Asia.

Walter P. Falcon
Director of Institute for International Studies and Professor, Food Research Institute
Research: Rural development; political economy of rice in Asia; food policy for practitioners; the economics of upland crops in Indonesia.
Course:World Food Economy

Hill Gates
Emeritus, Anthropological Sciences
Research: Political economies from the perspective of Chinese women petty capitalists; women's commodity labor and footbinding in Sichuan and Fujian; class and demographic variables for women in Japanese Taibei

William B. Gould
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Research: Comparative studies of American and Japanese labor law.
Courses: Comparative Labor Law; The International Labor Organization and the Multinationals

Alex Inkeles
Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Research: Psycho-social perspectives of national character with reference to Asia

Harold L. Kahn
Professor Emeritus, History
Research: Social and economic history of the Ming-Qing period; late Qing popular culture.

Terry E. MacDougall
Consulting Professor, Overseas Studies Program;
Director, Stanford Japan Center Education Program.

Mark Mancall
Professor, History
Research:Buddhist Political and Social Theory; Indian history.

Thomas Metzger
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Research: Intellectual and institutional history of China; contemporary Chinese political orientations; ancient Chinese thought.

Ramon H. Myers
Curator-Scholar, East Asian Collection; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Research: Economic and social history of China and Japan (19th-20th centuries); East Asian international relations, politics in Taiwan.

David Nivison
Professor Emeritus
Research:Qing intellectual history; Chinese moral philosophy, early philosophy; Shang and Zhou inscriptions

Mark Peattie
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Associate Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center
Research: US-Japan relations, Japanese history.

James Raphael
Director of Research, Asia/Pacific Research Center
Research: Japanese technology policy, Japanese health care policy.

Henry Rowen
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Director, Asia/Pacific Research Center
Research:Security issues of interest to the United States and Asia.

Makoto Ueda
Professor Emeritus
Research: Theories of literature and literary criticism, especially with regard to Japanese literature; traditional and modern haiku; modern Japanese fiction; comparative literature

Lyman P. Van Slyke
Professor Emeritus
Research: Chinese Communist Movement, 1929-1949, with special emphasis on the Sino-Japanese War and the growth of base areas; the Yangtze River and its watershed in natural and human perspectives; Sino-American relations.

Pan Yotopoulos
Professor
Research: Modern Japanese Economic Development