Faculty Projects City by City

Brief descriptions of ongoing projects (organized by city) are included on this page and on the pages listed at left. For additional information about individual faculty members' backgrounds or research interests, please visit the "ASU Faculty in China" link.

Beijing

The capital of modern-day China is and will continue to be a hotbed of activity in nearly every field. From high-tech industries to ancient Chinese history, from MBA programs to biotech – ASU is working hard to foster strong working ties with this vibrant city. Below is a summary of current ASU activities in Beijing:

ASU professors facilitate a program that focuses on high technology industries that deliver MBA curriculum to managers of U.S. multinational firms such as Motorola. W. P. Carey MBA in Beijing

ASU professors are also working with Peking University in Beijing to enhance international research cooperation and scholarly communication. They have collaborated in securing international grants to support the research and publications of Peking University’s Center for the Study of Ancient Chinese History. In February 2004, ASU signed its first exchange agreement with Peking University, a faculty exchange and research collaboration agreement with this Center. 

The close ASU-Beijing University relationship continues with the one-month visit by Professor Deng Xiaonan in April 2006.  Deng, a professor of history at Peking University in Beijing and also a research fellow at its Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History. One focus of Deng’s research whilst at ASU will be to continue her project on the transition from Tang (618-906) to Song periods, which some scholars regard as comparable to the shift from medieval to early modern in European history.

While at ASU, Deng will work with ASU professors Hoyt Tillman, Stephen West, and Claudia Brown to help select and organize a team of North American and European scholars to participate in the culminating international conference schedule for Academia Sinica in September 2007. Tillman has received a planning grant from the American Council of Learned Societies to host the planning meeting at ASU. Professor Deng will also give two lectures at ASU and explore additional avenues for research collaboration beyond the longstanding cooperation with Hoyt Tillman.

In April 2005, the Director of the Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History, Zhang Xiqing, was the first Beijing University professor to visit ASU on this exchange.Three of his lectures are being translated into English and will be published in a volume by ASU’s Center for Asian Studies.Two of the lectures were given at ASU, and the third was at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.

ASU professors have also performed research in Beijing under the financial auspices of Fulbright grants. 

An ASU professor served as International Coordinator on the Biodiversity Working Group of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development.  Several projects related to the group are currently underway.