Haiying Weng
Program Manager Office: 509 Kent Hall Phone: (212) 854-5546 Email: [email protected] … [Read more...]
ROBERT HYMES
Executive Committee Member Robert Hymes received his BA from Columbia College (1972), and his MA (1976) and PhD (1979) from the University of Pennsylvania. Much of of his work so far has focused on the social and cultural history of middle-period and early modern China, drawing questions and sometimes data from cultural anthropology as well as history, and using the … [Read more...]
HARUO SHIRANE
Executive Committee Member & Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature Haruo Shirane’s fields of interest are Japanese literature, visual culture, and cultural history, with particular focus on intertextuality and language, text/image relations, popular and elite subcultures, and culture and power. He has written widely on Heian, medieval and Edo prose fiction, poetry, … [Read more...]
XINGCAN CHEN
Executive Committee Member Xingcan Chen is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and Professor of the Department of Archaeology, Graduate School of CASS. He has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in the middle Yellow River region for more than twenty-five years and excavated several important … [Read more...]
LI FENG
Faculty Director & Executive Committee Member Professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, Li Feng is both a historian and an archaeologist with rich academic and cultural experiences in Asia and the West. His early fieldwork dates back to the 1980s when he was a member of the Institute of … [Read more...]
