UBC China Scholar Directory

Please contact Calvin Lin or Dr. Timothy Cheek if you wish to be listed on our UBC China Scholars Directory. Don’t forget to include your email address as well as a link to your profile. China scholars are broadly defined as having a significant professional interest in subjects directly related to China.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Zhichun Jing, Associate Professor of Anthropology [Archaeology of Shang civilization]

APPLIED SCIENCE

Stephanie Chang, Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), and the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES) [Disaster recovery and resilience]

ART HISTORY

Julia Orell, Assistant Professor of Art History [Landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties]

Xiong Gu, Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies [Multimedia artist]

ASIAN MIGRATION STUDIES

Mila Zuo, Assistant Professor of Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies and Theatre and Film [Transnational Asian Cinemas]

Xiong Gu, Professor of Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies and Art History, Visual Art & Theory [Multimedia artist]

ASIAN LIBRARY

Jing Liu, Chinese Language and Studies Librarian [Chinese Studies]

ASIAN STUDIES

Alison C. Bailey, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies [Pre-Modern Chinese Literature]

Bruce Rusk, Associate Professor of Asian Studies [Cultural History of China from the Ming to Mid-Qing periods]

Christopher Rea, Professor of Asian Studies [Literary and Cultural Historian on modern Chinese-speaking world]

Duan Duan Li, Retired Associate Professor of Asian Studies [Chinese Applied Linguistics]

Hsiang-Ning (Sunnie) Wang, Associate Professor of Teaching in Asian Studies and Chinese Language Program Coordinator [Chinese Applied Linguistics]

Jinhua Chen, Professor of Asian Studies [East Asian Buddhism]

Josephine Chiu-Duke, Professor of Asian Studies [Chinese Intellectual, Social, and Cultural History]

Leo K. Shin, Associate Professor of Asian Studies and History and Convenor of Hong Kong Studies Initiative [Cultural History of late-Imperial and Modern China]

Qian Wang, Associate Professor of Teaching in Asian Studies and Chinese Language Program Director [Chinese Linguistics]

Renren Yang, Assistant Professor Asian Studies [Modern Chinese Popular Culture]

Xiaowen Xu, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Asian Studies [Chinese Applied Linguistics, literature, and English/Chinese translation]

BUSINESS

C. Tsuriel Somerville, Associate Professor of Strategy and Business Economics [Real Estate Development and Finance]

Ilan Vertinsky, Emeritus Professor of Strategy and Business Economics Division and Operations and Logistics Division [International Business and the Pacific Rim]

Masao Nakamura, Emeritus Professor of Strategy and Business Economics Division [International Business and Technology Management]

Michael A. Goldberg, Emeritus Professor of Strategy and Business Economics Division [Globalization of Real Estate Markets]

Peter Nemetz, Emeritus Professor of Strategy and Business Economics Division [Sustainable development, Ecological Economics and Policy]

ENGLISH

Christopher Lee, Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program [Diaspora Chinese Literary Thought during the Cold War]

Mary Chapman, Professor of English Literature and Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub [American Literature and Transnational American Studies]

FORESTRY

John Innes, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, Forest Renewal BC Chair in Forest Management [Sustainable Forest Management and Success of Co-management Agreements]

Gary Bull, Professor of Forest Resource Management [Forest and Timber Markets in Asia and Ecosystem Services Markets]

FRENCH, HISPANIC, and ITALIAN STUDIES

Gaoheng Zhang, Associate Professor of Italian Studies [Cultural Mobilities Concerning Contemporary Italy’s and Europe’s Global Networks with Asia, America, and Africa]

GEOGRAPHY

David Edgington, Emeritus Professor of Geography [Geography of Japan and the Pacific Rim]

David Ley, Emeritus Professor of Geography [Processes of Social and Spatial Change in Older Inner-City Neighbourhoods]

Jim Glassman, Professor of Geography [Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia]

HISTORY

Glen Peterson, Professor of History [History of Chinese migration to Southeast Asia]

Henry Yu, Associate Professor of History [Cultural and Historical Legacies of Colonialism]

Leo K. Shin, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies and Convenor of Hong Kong Studies Initiative [Cultural History of late-Imperial and Modern China]

Timothy Brook, Emeritus Professor of History [Social and Cultural History of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)]

Timothy Cheek, Professor of History and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research [Contemporary Thought and Society in China and History of the Chinese Communist Party]

LAW

Liwen Lin, Associate Professor at Peter A. Allard School of Law [Comparative Corporate Governance and Chinese Law]

Pitman Potter, Emeritus Professor at Peter A. Allard School of Law [PRC and Taiwan Law and Policy]

Wei Cui, Professor at Peter A. Allard School of Law [Tax law and policy]

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

Jing Liu, Chinese Language Studies Librarian [Chinese Studies]

MUSIC

Hedy Law, Associate Professor of Musicology in School of Music [Global Cantonese Music]

Alan Thrasher, Emeritus Professor of Chinese Music, Organology and Semiotics and Asian musical performance [East Asian Music]

PHILOSOPHY

Edward Slingerland, Professor of Philosophy [Warring States Chinese thought, Religious Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Ethics]

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Brian Job, Professor of Political Science [Evolving Security Order of the Asia Pacific]

Yves Tiberghien, Professor of Political Science, Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research and Director of the Center for Japanese Research [Comparative Political Economy and Global Economic and Environmental Governance]

Xiaojun Li, Associate Professor of Political Science [International and Comparative Political Economy]

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS in the INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

Brian Job, Faculty Associate and Professor of Political Science [Evolving Security Order of the Asia Pacific]

Jack Hayes, Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Chinese Research and Departments of Asian Studies and History, Kwantlen Polytechnic University [Late-Imperial and Modern Chinese Environmental History]

Kristen Hopewell, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and Co-Director of the Centre for Chinese Research [International Trade, Global Governance, Industrial Policy and Development]

Paul Evans, Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and HSBC Chair in Asian Research [Asian and Trans-Pacific International Relations]

Timothy Cheek, Professor of School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and History and Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research [Contemporary Thought and Society in China and History of the Chinese Communist Party]

SOCIAL WORK

Miu Chung Yan, Professor and Acting Director of Social Work [Settlement and Integration of Immigrants and Refugees]

SOCIOLOGY

Amy Hanser, Associate Professor of Sociology [Consumption and inequality in China]

Qiang Fu, Associate Professor of Sociology [Institutional Logics and Power Relations from a Comparative Perspective]

Yue Qian, Associate Professor of Sociology [Social Demography, Family and Work in East Asian and North American Context]

Renisa Mawani, Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, Colonial Legal Histories [Colonial Legal History]

THEATRE AND FILM

Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor of Theatre and Film [Race and Politics in South Africa]

Siyuan Liu, Professor of Theatre and Film [Modern and Traditional Chinese Theatre in the Twentieth Century and Asian Canadian Theatre]

Mila Zuo, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies [Transnational Asian Cinemas]

URBAN PLANNING

Michael Leaf, Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning

WOOD SCIENCE

Dave Cohen, Emeritus Professor of Wood Science