Directory - ASU Faculty working in China:
ASU faculty and staff are working on projects throughout China. The China Council of the Office of the President is building a directory of ASU people and projects in China. This directory will serve as a resource for the ASU community and beyond.
Please add yourself and your work to the list!
Arrowsmith, Ramon
Brown, Claudia
Cutter, Robert Joe
Elser, James
Hirt, Paul
Kuby, Michael
Lan, Gerald Zhiyong
Li, Wei
Mackinnon, Stephen R
Pei, Buck
Si, Jennie
Simon, Sheldon
Smith, Andrew T
Thor, Eric P
Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland
Tsui, Anne S
Wang, Ning
West, Stephen H
Wiley, Terrence
Wong, Timothy C
Wu, Jianguo (Jingle)
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RAMON ARROWSMITH Associate Professor of Geological Sciences Department of Geological Sciences ASU-P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1404 Tel: 480-965-3541; Dept: 480-965-5081 Fax: 480-965-8102; Office: PSF 640 E-mail: ramon.arrowsmith@asu.edu; Website: http://geology.asu.edu/people/faculty/arrowsmith |
Ramon Arrowsmith has long standing interests in the interactions of tectonic and surface processes (both natural and human-caused) in sculpting the earth's surface. Some recent research has been focused on studying the recent earthquakes and longer term motion along the great faults of western China and former Soviet central Asia. Of additional potential interest is the transfer of some of his and colleague's research on subsidence in the greater Phoenix area (driven by groundwater withdrawal) to similar processes in China.
 CLAUDIA
BROWNAssociate Professor of Art Director, Center for Asian Studies School of Art, Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts, ASU-PO Box 871505, Tempe, AZ 85287-1505 Tel: 480-965-4180; Mess: 480-965-4180; Dept: 480-965-7184; Fax: 480-965-8317; Office: COOR 6670 E-mail: claudia.brown@asu.edu; Website: http://art.asu.edu/ |
Claudia Brown serves as Director of the Center for Asian Studies (appointed summer 2002), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, and also as Associate Professor, Art History, School of Art, Herberger College of Fine Arts. Before joining the ASU faculty in 1998, she was Curator of Asian Art at the Phoenix Art Museum since 1979. While finishing her doctoral work in the history of Chinese art at the University of Kansas, she worked in the Department of Painting and Calligraphy at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan (1975-6). Since that time Dr. Brown has traveled regularly to Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Two major exhibitions that she co-curated with Dr. Ju-hsi Chou (ASU Professor Emeritus and Curator of Chinese Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art), The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting under the Qianlong Emperor, 1735-1795, and Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire, 1796-1911, were shown at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (1986 and 1993). She curated two other exhibitions shown in Hong Kong, Chinese Cloisonné: The Robert H. Clague Collection, shown at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 1985, and Minol Araki, shown at the Hong Kong Art Centre in 1999. The latter exhibition premiered at the National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998. Recently, she participated in international symposia on the history of Chinese painting and visual culture in Shanghai (2001), and in Taipei (2002). This year, she served as panelist at the international conference, "Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention," held at Cornell University.
 ROBERT JOE CUTTER Chair and Professor Department of Languages and Literatures ASU-PO BOX 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 Tel: 480-965-6281 Fax: 480-965-0135 Office: LL 440 E-mail: joe.cutter@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/news/newfaculty/liberalarts1.htm |
Dr. Cutter received his doctorate from the University of Washington in Chinese, with a specialization in early medieval Chinese literature. Prior to coming to ASU, he was a professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was on the faculty for twenty-two years. Now professor emeritus at Wisconsin, he served terms as chair of his department and director of the Center for East Asian Studies. An internationally recognized leader in the field of early medieval Chinese literature and history, Dr. Cutter has numerous books and articles on those topics, as well as on other periods, including modern Chinese literature. His most recent monograph is a book in Chinese entitled Cockfighting and Chinese Culture published by China ’s leading scholarly publishing house. It is a cultural history of this blood sport based on both literary and historical sources. Dr. Cutter serves on a number of boards and is the East Asia Sectional Chair of the American Oriental Society, the third oldest scholarly organization in the United States.
 JAMES
ELSERProfessor of Life Sciences School of Life Sciences ASU-P.O. Box 874501, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4501 Tel: 480-965-9747; Dept: 480-965-0803 Fax: 480-965-2519; Office: LSA 310 E-mail: j.elser@asu.edu; Website: http://sols.asu.edu/faculty/jelser.php |
Dr. Elser's research involves the integrative field of biological stoichiometry, the study of balance of energy and multiple chemical elements in living systems.
During 2004 Dr. Elser lead a group of scientists
on an NSF-sponsored scientific exchange to China on the theme of "Ecological
complexity and ecosystem services." Details
of this endeavor can be found at:
http://ecovalue.uvm.edu/collaboration/china/China.htm
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PAUL HIRT Associate Professor of History Department of History ASU-P.O. Box 874302, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4302 Tel: 480-727-9084; Dept: 480-965-5778; Fax: 480-965-0310; Office: COOR4553 E-mail: paul.hirt@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/ |
Paul Hirt (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1991) is an Associate Professor specializing in environmental history, environmental policy, and the American West. He also has an M.A. degree in Asian Studies, emphasizing comparative religions.
Hirt taught at Washington State University for eleven years before joining the faculty at ASU in the fall of 2004. While at WSU, Hirt was extensively involved in International programs. He was the principle grant-writer and Project Director for two US Department of State-funded Educational Partnerships linking WSU with universities in Ukraine and China to collaboratively develop international American Studies curriculum. Both projects supported interdisciplinary faculty exchanges involving dozens of faculty from a wide variety of departments across campus. The partner institution in China, Yunnan University in Kunming, is developing a new Master's degree in American Studies as a result of the partnership. Hirt is also interested in comparative studies of the U.S. and Chinese Wests.
 MICHAEL
KUBY Associate Professor of Geography Department of Geography ASU-P.O. Box 870104, Tempe, AZ, 85287-0104 Tel: 480-965-6850; Dept: 480-965-7533; Fax: 480-965-8313; Office: SCOB 140 E-mail: mikekuby@asu.edu; Website: http://geography.asu.edu/mkuby |
Dr. Kuby is a geographer specializing in energy and transportation. His research centers on creating optimization models for facility location or transport network design. These models aid decision-makers in identifying the best spatial organization of critical infrastructure. This branch of geography overlaps with the interdisciplinary fields of operations research, management science, and regional science.
Dr. Kuby has worked extensively in China with the
World Bank, the Chinese State Planning Commission (SPC), and the
Ministry of Railways (MOR). In the Coal Transport Study (1989-1994),
he led an SPC team in developing a large and complex planning model
of China’s coal and electricity production and delivery system
to optimize investment strategies for alleviating China’s
energy shortages. From 1994-95 he worked with a Chinese student
to add energy conservation to the model and analyze the tradeoffs
between cost and pollution. In the Cost-Effective Technology Evaluation
(1995-97), he led an MOR team in optimizing the size, location,
technology, and timing of new railway lines. For the China Transport
Strategy paper, he forecasted trends in passenger and freight demand.
Most recently, he has studied the progress of coal washing technology
and investment in China. He has traveled to China 12 times from
1989 to 2002, and teaches a course in the Geography of China at
ASU.
 GERALD
ZHIYONG LANProfessor of Public Administration School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs, ASU-PO BOX 870603, Tempe, AZ 85287-0603 Tel:480-965-8420;Dept:480-965-3926; Fax:480-965-9248;Office: WILSON230A E-mail: lan@asu.edu; Website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~atzxl/ |
Professor Lan obtained his Ph.D. degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University in 1991. He teaches and researches in areas of public administration theory, governance innovation, research methods, government and business relationships, information technology and resources management/policy, and development administration (focus on China). He has published 2 books, over 50 journal articles, book chapters, and other publications. His work has appeared in reputable journals such as: Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Public Administration: Theory and Research, Administration and Society, Brown Journal of World Affairs, and other specialized journals including Journal of Government Information, Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of American-East Asian Studies, Asian Journal of Public Administration, Asian Thought and Society, Chinese Public Administration Review, etc. His research work has been well referenced by his scholarly colleagues and well-know government officials. He won a number of research and service awards, and has been listed in Marquis Who Is Who multiple times.
Professor Lan has extensive academic ties with colleagues in his field in China. He has been a research fellow at the China Center for Economics in Beijing University, the University of Hong Kong, and is a 2004 Fulbright Lecturer to China. He serves as an external program reviewer or thesis reader for some Hong Kong and Singapore based universities. He has been a guest lecturer in many reputable Chinese universities and a speaker on many occasions such as academic conferences, community gatherings, local government training sessions, and China's high level policy forums.
Professor Lan was Executive-on-Loan to the city
of Phoenix in 2000-2001 and served as its Chairman of the Chengdu
Committee in 2002-04, through which he coordinated international
training and many international visits to local governments and
businesses. He serves on two editorial boards and a board member
of the Science and Technology Section of ASPA (American Society
for Public Administration. Professor Lan consults with local governments
both in the U.S. and in China and with World Bank on China's public
administration reform. Among other things, he is currently working
on a few projects with a group of scholars in Zhejiang University
to promote China's local government reform and local economic competitiveness.
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Dr. Wei Li received her Ph.D. in geography at the University of Southern California in 1997, and currently an Associate Professor at the Asian Pacific American Studies Program, and affiliated with Department of Geography, Center for Asian Studies, School of Justice Studies, and Women’s Studies.
Her foci of research are Chinese Diaspora and transnational communities, urban ethnicity and ethnic geography, immigration and integration, financial sector and minority community development, focusing on the Chinese and other Asian groups in major metropolitan areas in Pacific Rim and European countries. She coined the term "ethnoburb" to describe a new form of contemporary suburban Asian settlements across the Pacific Rim. She is part of a team of U.S. and Canada-based scholars who work on to introduce Asian American and Asian Canadian Studies to top Chinese research universities, one of which her alma mater, Peking University. She is participating in an international project on exploring the globalization of War-Mart, of which China is an important study site. Her joint-research with economists and geographers studying the roles of ethnic banks in facilitating Asian American community and business development also brings her to Taiwan to examine the internationalization of major Taiwanese banks in China and the U.S.
Her forthcoming edited volume, From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: new Asian communities in Pacific Rim countries, examines suburban Asian immigrant communities in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She is co-editing, Landscapes of Ethnic Economy, an edited volume on geographic perspective on ethnic economy in the world. Her scholarly articles have appeared in top Geography, Asian American Studies and interdisciplinary journals such as Annals of Association of American Geographers; Environment and Planning A; Urban Studies; Urban Geography; Social Science Research, and Journal of Asian American Studies. She is the recipient of the 1999 Nystrom Dissertation Award by the Association of American Geographers; a member of Phi Kappa Phi All University Honor Society (initiated in 1997). She was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce as a member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees (Asian Population) in 2003.
Media reports on her work on minority banks and community
development, the study of ethnoburb, and the ethnoburb phenomenon
itself have appeared on New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles
Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
She is a reviewer for National Science Foundation, and journals
such as Annals of the Association of American Geographers; The
Canadian Geographer / Le Geographe Canadien; Economic Geography;
Urban Geography; and Urban Studies. She is currently the vice chair
of Ethnic Geography Special Group (EGSG) and a board member of
Population Group in the Association of American Geographers.
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Trained in Chinese studies at Yale and the University of California, Davis, Dr. MacKinnon is a professor of history and a former director of Asian Studies at ASU. He is the author of China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s (1987); of Power and Politics in Late Imperial China; and co-author of Agnes Smedley: Life and Times of An American Radical (1988). Most recent book is Scars of War, edited with Diana Lary (University of British Columbia Press, 2001), which includes a chapter by him on "Refugee Flight." He publishes as well on Chinese journalism, with articles on press freedom and the Chinese Revolution, U.S. media coverage of China, and the history of the Chinese press in the Republican period. Between 1979 and 1981 and again in 1985, Dr. MacKinnon worked as an expert for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was recently a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Pune in India. Research grants include Senior Fulbright Research, American Council of Learned Societies, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC, Pacific Cultural Foundation, American Institute of Indian Studies, and so on. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the early years of the Sino-Japanese War and the free press of Wuhan in 1938. He is also editing a conference volume with Diana Lary and Ezra Vogel on the social history of China during the War period.
Dr. MacKinnon's teaching interests focus on modern
China. At the undergraduate level, he regularly teaches a survey
course on the history of the People's Republic of China, as well
as standard courses on Asian and modern Chinese history. Seminars
taught range from U.S.-China relations and biography in modern
Asia at the undergraduate level to War and Revolution and other
comparative history seminars at the graduate level.
 BUCK
PEI Professor of Accountancy, Associate Dean W. P. Carey School of Business, Accounting ASU-P.O. Box 873606, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3606 Tel: 480-965-6635; Dept: 480-965-3631; Fax: 480-727-6999; Office: BAC 618 E-mail: buck.pei@asu.edu; Website: http://wpcarey.asu.edu |
Professor Pei received his Ph.D. degree in Accounting from University of North Texas in 1986. Professor Pei's current research interests include strategic cost management, strategic innovations in information systems, performance measurement on supply-chain, and behavioral decision-making. His current teaching interests are in the areas of strategic innovations in cost management, supply-chain, and E-business.
Professor Pei is currently the Associate Dean at the W. P. Carey School in charge of all Asia programs (including executive education and research). He is the Director of two MBA programs in China. One program is located in Beijing focusing on high technology industries that delivers MBA curriculum to managers of U.S. multinational firms such as Motorola (http://wpcarey.asu.edu/mba/beijing/), and the other program is located in Shanghai focusing on Financial Services industries for senior managers of the major State Owned Enterprises (http://wpcarey.asu.edu/mba/shanghai/).
Professor Pei has recently published articles in such leading academic journals as Management Science, Decision Sciences, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting, Organization & Society, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making and Journal of Economic Psychology. Professor Pei has won numerous teaching Awards at both Graduate and Undergraduate levels. He received outstanding Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in 1997 from College of Business, Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in 1996 from School of Accountancy and Information Management, and Teacher of the Year in 1998 from the State Society of Arizona Certified Public Accountants for his teaching excellence and curriculum innovations.
Professor Pei is an active member of the American Accounting Association. He served as the co-Chair of Globalization Committee for the Association in 1997 and help to establish Chinese Accounting Professors Association in Mainland China. He was was the President of Chinese Accounting Professors Association of North America in 1993 and 1994.
 JENNIE
SIProfessor of Electrical Engineering Ira. A. Fulton School of Engineering, Electrical Engineering ASU-P.O. Box 875706, Tempe, AZ, 85287-5706 Tel: 480-965-6133; Dept: 480-965-3424; Fax: 480-965-2811; Office: GWC351 E-mail: si@asu.edu; Website:http://www.eas.asu.edu/~eee/FacultyStaff/Si/si.html |
Professor, Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University. Dr. Jennie Si received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She has been on faculty at ASU since 1991 upon completion of her Ph.D. degree at University of Notre Dame.
Professor Jennie Si's research focuses on learning and approximation techniques in large scale dynamic system optimization. In addition to theoretical research on fundamental understandings of learning and adaptive systems, and development of learning algorithms, over the years she has focused on applications of her systems knowledge in large physical systems such as semiconductor processes and biological neural systems. She has over 100 publications in her research areas. Her newly edited book "Handbook on Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming" is to be released on July 23, 2004 by the IEEE Press and Wiley and Sons.
Professor Jennie Si has received several awards in China as a student at Tsinghua University. In the U.S. she was named one of the 15 Presidential Faculty Fellows by President Bill Clinton in 1995. She also received a Motorola Engineering Excellence Award the same year. Since late 1990's she has been listed in many top Who's Who publications in the U.S. such as Marquis' Who's Who in the World, in America, in Science and Engineering, in Finance and Industry, in Education. She was Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Semiconductor Manufacturing for almost 6 years; past Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, and current Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. She has served on numerous IEEE conference committees and service boards. She has served very often on NSF proposal review panels. She also served as advisor to the NSF Social Behavioral and Economical directory, NSF large ($40 million/center) center site review committee, NSF Engineering directory Cyber-infrastructure initiative committee. Professor Jennie Si served as technical consultant to Intel, Arizona Public Service, and Medtronic.
 SHELDON
SIMONProfessor of Political Science Department of Political Science ASU-PO BOX 873902, Tempe, AZ 85287-3902 Tel: 480-965-1317; Dept: 480-965-6551; Fax: 480-965-3929; Office: Lattie Coor Hall 6716 E-mail: shells@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/ |
Professor Simon joined the Political Science department
in 1975. His B.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Minnesota,
and he
holds
a
Master
of
International Affairs
from Princeton University. Professor Simon is the author of The
Broken Triangle: Peking, Djakarta and the PKI (1969), War
and Politics in Cambodia: A Communications Analysis (1974), Asian
Neutralism and U.S. Policy (1975), The ASEAN States and
Regional Security (1982),
The Future of Asian-Pacific Security Collaboration (1988), and editor
of East Asian Security in the Post-Cold War Era (1993); Southeast
Asian Security in the New Millennium (1996); and The Many
Faces of Asian Security (2001). He has also contributed articles to The
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Asian Survey, The China Quarterly,
Orbis,
Pacific Affairs, The Journal of East Asian Affairs, International
Perspectives, Problems of Communism, Armed Forces and Society, The
Australian Journal of International Affairs, Southeast Asian Affairs,
Australian Outlook, NBR Analysis Series, Indochina Issues, Journal
of International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, The Korean Journal
of Defense Analyses, Asia-Pacific Review, Contemporary Southeast
Asia, The Pacific Review, The Journal of Northeast Asian Studies
and International Politics. His current research interests focus
on assessments of future Asian security arrangements in the post-Cold
War era both from the perspectives of regional structure and national
foreign policies.
 ANDREW
T SMITHProfessor of Biology School of Life Sciences, Human Dimensions of Biology ASU-PO BOX 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501 Tel: 480-965-4024; Dept: 480-965-0803; Fax: 480-965-6899; Office: LSC 286 E-mail: a.smith@asu.edu; Website: http://sols.asu.edu/faculty/asmith.php |
Dr. Smith is committed to work in the general area
of conservation, particularly in the international arena. He is
chair of the IUCN/SSC Lagomorph Specialist Group, and co-chair
of SSC's Data Management Working Group which is developing a global
Species Information Service. Dr. Smith has served as International
Coordinator on the Biodiversity Working Group of the China Council
for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (with
several related activities ongoing). In addition, he serves on
the board of advisors or directors of a large number of international
conservation NGOs.
 ERIC
P THORProfessor Morrison School of Agribusiness & Resource Management ASU-P.O. Box 870104, Tempe, AZ, 85287-0104 Tel: 480-727-1583; Dept: 480-727-1585; Fax: 480-727-1123; Office: WAN140J E-mail: eric.thor@asu.edu; Website: http://www.east.asu.edu/msabr/ |
Professor Thor teaches international development, trade and finance at Arizona State University and has lectured at over 15 Chinese universities. He served as Director of the Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resources management from 1990 to 1998, and as Director of the Center for Agribusiness Policy Studies from 1992-1999. He is currently serving as the Director of the Arizona Agricultural Mediation Program and as a federal agricultural mediator, specializing in global finance, alternative dispute resolution, project finance, cooperatives, and trade. Among numerous other appointments he has served as a member of the Emerging Market Advisory Board to the President and Congress under Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. He has testified before Congress on a wide variety of issues including WTO, rural development, water management and rural empowerment.
Dr. Thor has 30-plus years of experience with China, and has traveled to China as a representative on seven trade and development missions for the State of California, Bank of America, Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Science, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and State. He has also been involved in both research and management of a number of public and private entities, including Bank of America, Crocker National Bank, the U.S. Treasury, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and has headed funding of over $6 Billion dollars for the private sector and the U.S. government
Dr. Thor has authored a number of books including "Attacking Global Barriers" published by ASU Press in 2001, co-authored "Anatomy of American Agricultural Credit Crisis" by Browne and Bain, and co-published "The New Rural Economy" by U.C. Davis in 1994. He has published over 100 articles and presented many at World Congress sessions.
Dr. Thor is now working with the China Week Committee and a Visiting Professor from the China Academy of Science focusing on development of water, agribusiness, trade and soils in western China.
Dr. Thor graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a Ph.D. in economics and did postdoctoral training at Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard.
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HOYT
CLEVELAND TILLMANHoyt Cleveland Tillman earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in History & East Asian Languages in 1976, and then came directly to ASU to teach Chinese cultural history. He has published eight books and over forty articles in both English and Chinese. Most of his work focuses on retrieving some of the historical range of intellectual and cultural alternatives beyond the orthodoxy that prevailed in state and society from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. The rich diversity of Chinese thought has commonly been overlooked because of the dominance of that orthodoxy, but Tillman retrieves alternative sociopolitical approaches and philosophical insights. By demonstrating the diversity and richness of these ideas, Tillman hopes to enrich our understanding of Chinese traditions and their evolution.
Since 1981 Tillman has worked with colleagues, particularly
at 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. From September 2003 through December
2004, Tillman is at the Center and doing his research with grants
from the William J. Fulbright Foundation and the Council of Learned
Societies.
For Dr. Tillman's recent activities, please click here
 ANNE
S TSUI Motorola Professor of International Management W.P. Carey School of Business, Management ASU-PO BOX 874006, Tempe, AZ 85287-4006 Tel: 480-965-3999; Dept: 480-965-3431; Fax: 480-965-8314; Office: BA 352B E-mail: anne.tsui@asu.edu; Website: http://wpcarey.asu.edu |
Professor Anne Tsui recently joined ASU, after being the Chair Professor of the Department of Management of Organizations at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1995 to 2003, where she founded the Management Department at HKUST and the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research, dedicated to advancing research on management and organizational issues in the Chinese context. Since 1995, most of her research has been focusing on management issues in Chinese firms or multinationals in China. Her research topics in China include leadership, organizational culture, employment relationships, and guanxi. In 2002, she founded the International Association for Chinese Management Research or IACMR (www.iacmr.org), and is serving as its Founding President. She also is the Founding Editor of the journal Management and Organization Review (MOR), which is dedicated to publishing China related management and organization research.
NING WANGNing Wang joined ASU in 2005. His research focuses on the interface between law, polity, economy and society, with a thematic focus on international development. He received B.S. in psychology from Beijing University, M. A. in International Relations and Ph. D. in human development from University of Chicago in 1996 and 2002 respectively.
The primary concern of his research is transition and developing economies. His approach to economic development prioritizes the institutional and organizational structure of the economic system, underscoring the legal framework and social structure within which the economy operates and evolves. His current empirical research on transition economies has a geographic focus on China. He has done intensive fieldwork in rural China, particularly, the rise of commercial fishery. He is launching a project to examine China’s emerging auto industry, which is a crowded battlefield for domestic producers as well as multinationals from Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Europe. It is particularly interesting to compare how auto manufacturers respond to outsourcing and globalization, fuelled by and reinforcing increasing technological and organizational innovation.
 STEPHEN H WESTFoundation Professor of Chinese Department of Languages and Literatures and School of Global Studies ASU-PO BOX 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 Tel: 480-965-2520; Dept: 480-965-6281 Fax: 480-965-0135; Office: E-mail: stephen.h.west@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/globalstudies/ |
Dr. West has long been interested in the urban culture of mediaeval China, particularly in the relationship between urban culture and violence at that time. Other interests include early Chinese performing literature and Chinese landscape and garden studies. Dr. West has lived and taught in China and in Taiwan, where he has traveled extensively. A list of his current projects and publications can be found at: http://www.asu.edu/clas/globalstudies/faculty/west.html
For Dr. West's recent activities, please click here
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TERRENCE
WILEYTerrence Wiley is Professor and Director of the Division
of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He received his Ph.D.
in Multilingual-
Multicultural Education from the University and Southern California,
studied Chinese and Japanese Intellectual History at the University
of Hawaii, and holds Master’s degrees in Asian Studies and
Linguistics.
Professor Wiley is founding Co-Editor of the Journal of Language,
Identity, and Education http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/LPRU/JLIE/.
He currently teaches courses on international perspectives on language
policy and language teaching, education
in global contexts, and immigrant/heritage languages in the United States.
Professor Wiley was a recent keynote speaker for the EEC
English as a Foreign Language
Professional Development Conference in Harbin, China. With his doctoral students,
Professor Wiley has been conducting research on Mandarin and other Chinese
'dialects' as
heritage and community languages in the United States. Among his recent work
is "Dialect speakers as heritage language learners: A Chinese case study."
In D. Brinton & O. Kagan (Eds.), Heritage language: A new field emerging (Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, in press).
 TIMOTHY
C WONGProfessor of Chinese Department of Languages and Literatures ASU-PO BOX 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 Tel: 480-965-7551; Dept: 480-965-6281 Fax: 480-965-0135; Office: LL405D E-mail: timothy.wong@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/chi/chinese.html |
Timothy C. Wong (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975) is Professor of Chinese and Director of the M.A. program in Asian Languages and Civilizations. He has been at ASU from 1974-84, and since 1995, when he returned from a decade on the faculty at the Ohio State University to become Director of the Center for Asian Studies, a post he held until 2002.
Wong's research and publications center on China's fictional narratives, which he tries to examine on their own terms. He has also published a number of literary translations, including Stories for Saturday: Twentieth Century Chinese Popular Fiction, University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
Wong has also been active in the field of language teaching; First-year Chinese for true beginners is one of his favorite courses to teach. He spent the 1984-85 academic year at Peking University, where he was Resident-Director of the China Cooperative Language and Study Program for the Council on International Educational Exchange. His decision to take up a career in teaching foreign language and culture grew out of the two years (1963-65) he spent as a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching English to high-school level students in Thailand.
Since 1981, Wong has been to China some twenty times,
lecturing to university alumni on tour, and attending academic
conferences. Most recently, he presented a paper, "Globalizing
Old Xiaoshuo: A Fundamental Problem," at a conference
on "Literary Studies in the Age of Globalization" at
Beijing Normal University, June 27-29, 2004.
 JIANGUO
(JINGLE) WUProfessor of Biology School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Ecology, Evolution, & Environmental Science ASU-PO BOX 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501 Tel: 480-965-1063; Dept: 480-965-0803; Fax: 480-965-6899; Office: LSC 286 E-mail: jingle.wu@asu.edu; Website: http://leml.asu.edu/jingle/ |
Dr. Wu's research areas include: landscape ecology, systems ecology, urban ecology, and conservation ecology. His recent research has focused on the effects of landscape pattern on population and ecosystem processes, effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity, spatial scaling, land use and land cover change, and the ecology of Asian dust storms.
