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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
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