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