PhD, University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
POW studies as social, political, and military history; Cold War international history; China-Burma-India Theatre in WWII; wartime education and migration (1930s-1940s); history of Sino-U.S. relations; elections and constitutionalism in modern China
Professor Siu-woo CHEUNG
PhD, University of Washington
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Ethnicity and ethno-historical processes in South China and Vietnam, subject-identity constitution and representation, cultural politics among border peoples
PhD, Princeton University
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Modern European history, history of political and social thought, global history of ideas
Professor Daisy Yan DU
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Animation, film, media, Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, Women/Children/Animal/Machine, Travel/Migration/Diaspora, and Modernity/Modernism Studies
Professor Flora Li-tsui FU
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Twentieth-century Chinese painting, Ming and Qing painting, topographical painting
Professor Jenny HUNG
PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; PhD, Lingnan University
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Chinese Philosophy, Buddhism, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of Science
Professor Huan JIN
PhD, Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Modern Chinese literature, late imperial Chinese literature, media studies, the history of the book
Professor James Z LEE
PhD, University of Chicago
Chair Professor of Humanities and Social Science
Research interests:
Chinese history (late imperial and contemporary), comparative demography and sociology of populations in the past, genealogical approaches to social science, higher education and social stratification in China
Professor Jianmei LIU
PhD, Columbia University
Chair Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Modern Chinese fiction, gender studies, the relationship between literature and religion, popular culture, and films studies
PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Ethnicity, kinship, tourism anthropology, ethnic minorities in China and in highland Southeast Asia
PhD, Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Transculturation and world literature, translation theory, popular culture and cinema, literature and medicine, affect theory, and auto/biography
Professor Eric S NELSON
PhD, Emory University
Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Critical Social Theory
Professor Zhen QIN
PhD, University of Kansas
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Perception and Processing of Chinese tones
Professor Simon Man-ho WONG
PhD, University of Toronto
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese Buddhism
Professor Shengqing WU
PhD, UCLA
Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Chinese literary and visual modernity; Media, visual, and verbal culture; Chinese poetry; History of photography in China
Professor Yuk-man Carine YIU
PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Chinese linguistics, Cantonese dialect, Chinese dialectology, syntax, semantics
Professor Lawrence L C ZHANG
PhD, Harvard University
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Late imperial and modern Chinese history, social mobility in China, office purchase in China, history of tea in East Asia
Professor Min ZHANG
PhD, Peking University
Associate Professor of Humanities
Research interests:
Chinese linguistics, Chinese historical grammar, Chinese dialectology, cognitive semantics and syntax
For more information about the faculty and teaching team, please visit the website of Division of Humanities.