To bring hands-on professional knowledge of East Asia to our students, CEAS invites distinguished practitioners—experts who have long experience and established reputations in greater China, Japan, or Korea—to teach at Stanford.

East Asian Studies:

Hiroaki Yoshihara (Fall 2007 and Winter 2008)
Former KPMG International Vice Chairman, Chairman and Global Managing Partner-Global Markets
Course: EASTASN 182J/282J, Why Businesses Succeed in the Asian and Global Arena.

Robert Carlin (Winter 2008)
Former Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Special Envoy for talks with North Korea, and former Chief of the Northeast Asia Division, State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Course: EASTASN 187K/287K, Media in North Korea: A Window to Plans, Perceptions, and Decisions

David Straub (Spring 2008)
Former State Department senior diplomat for Japan and Korea including experience as Director, Office of Japanese Affairs, and Director, Office of Korean Affairs, and Minister-Counselor, Political Section, U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
Course: EASTASN 188K/288K, Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Korean Relations

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Anthropological Sciences:

Arthur P. Wolf
Comparative ethnography/sociology; human biology; 19th century social theory; family organization, property, and population trends; Fukien, Taiwan, China

Anthropology:

Harumi Befu (emeritus)
Business anthropology, social (gift) exchange, cultural nationalism, globalization, NGOs, civil society, foreign workers, Japan

Melissa Brown
Social theory, co-evolution, demography, sex ratio at birth, marriage, women’s labor, footbinding, ethnic and national identity; Taiwan, China

Miyako Inoue
Anthropology of Japan, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, anthropology of gender

Matthew Kohrman
Governmentality, gender theory, critical science studies, narrativity and embodiment, disability in China, cigarette smoking among Chinese men

Jean Ma
Chinese-language cinemas, art cinema, film and media theory, narrative and historiography

Melinda Takeuchi - see Asian Languages

Richard Vinograd (on leave autumn and winter 2007-08)
Chinese portraiture, landscape painting and cultural formations, painting aesthetics and theory, urban cultural spaces, interplay of painting and print media, late imperial China

 

Steven Carter

Japanese poetry, poetics, and poetic culture; the Japanese essay (zuihitsu); travel writing; historical fiction; relationship between the social and the aesthetic

Richard Dasher -see Electrical Engineering

Albert E. Dien (emeritus)
Material culture in the Six Dynasties period, military hierarchy in early medieval China, Chinese archeology, history of Inner Asia

Indra Levy
Modern Japanese literature; relationship between translation, vernacular realism, and representations of Westernesque women; Yamakawa Kikue

Mark E. Lewis - see History

Yoshiko Matsumoto
Semantics and pragmatics, structure of modern Japanese, relation of language to gender and age, teaching and learning Japanese as a second language

James Reichert
Modern Japanese literature, representations of sexuality, Japanese literary criticism

Stuart H. Sargent (visiting)

Poets of the late Northern Sung period, especially Su Shih, Huang T'ing-chien, Ch'en Shih-tao, and Ho Chu; Japanese poetry; Chinese literary theory. Professor Sargent is author of The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1152): Genres, Contexts, and Creativity (Brill, 2007)

Chaofen Sun
Chinese linguistics, history of Chinese, classical Chinese, and teaching Chinese as a second language

Melinda Takeuchi

(joint appointment Art and Art History by courtesy)

Japanese painting and prints, pictorial obituaries, horse culture of Japan, artistic practice, art treatises

Ban Wang
Chinese literature and film, comparative literature, aesthetics, critical theory, intellectual history, and trauma and memory studies

John C. Y. Wang
The art of Chinese narrative, early Chinese historical texts, Chinese fiction and drama, Chinese literary criticism

Yiqun Zhou
Chinese and comparative women’s history, early Chinese literature and history, literature and society, Chinese religion, China-Greece comparative studies

CHINESE LANGUAGE LECTURERS

Yin Chuang (Calligraphy)
Marina Chung
Sik Lee Dennig
Michelle DiBello
Nina Lin
Yu-hwa Liao Rozelle
Huazhi Wang
Hong Zeng
Youping Zhang
Qi Zhu

Xiaoya Zhu

 

JAPANESE LANGUAGE LECTURERS

Fumiko Arao
Kazuko M. Busbin
Hisayo O. Lipton
Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk
Emiko Yasumoto Magnani

Kiyomi Nakamura
Yoshiko Tomiyama

KOREAN LANGUAGE LECTURERS

Hee-sun Kim

TIBETAN LANGUAGE LECTURER

Robert W. Clark

David Palumbo-Liu (on leave 2007-08)

Social and cultural criticism; literary criticism and theory; East Asian and Asian Pacific American studies; race, media and visuality; classical Chinese literature

Leonard Ortolano (on leave spring 2008)
Transfer of “environmentally friendly” technologies; implementation of air and water pollution control regulations in China; effectiveness of environmental non-governmental organizations in developing countries

Economics:

Masahiko Aoki (emeritus)
Comparative institutional analysis, corporate governance, the Japanese economy

Ronald McKinnon (emeritus)
International economics, economic development, transitional economies, fiscal federalism

Scott Rozelle
(Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies)

China’s agricultural policy, emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions, economics of poverty and inequality

Education:

Jennifer Adams

Chinese education and society, educational inequality, international and comparative education, decentralization, social capital, community development, child welfare and health, teacher quality, recruitment and retention, teaching practices

Richard Dasher

International business strategy and planning, technology trend and opportunity analysis, Japan market entry and performance improvement, Japanese business culture

Geological and Environmental Sciences:

Karen Seto

Socioeconomic and political drivers of land use and land cover change, satellite remote sensing, urbanization in Asia, China’s environment

Gordon Chang

Historical connections between race and ethnicity in America, U.S.-East Asia relations

Peter Duus (emeritus)
Japanese imperialism, especially with regards to Korea; Japanese social thought; modern Japanese economic history

Harold L. Kahn (emeritus)
Social and economic history of the Ming-Qing period, late Qing popular culture

Mark Edward Lewis
(joint appointment Asian Languages)

Early Chinese history; conceptualization of space and time in the late Warring States and Han periods, as elements of the formation of a world empire

Yumi Moon
Modern Korea and modern East Asia, Korean reformist movements and the Japanese colonization of Korea, state-society relationships, center-local dynamics in 18th and 19th-century Korea, collaboration and empire

Thomas Mullaney
Modern East Asia, race and ethnicity, categorization and identity, history and anthropology of science, nation formation and modern governmentality

Matthew Sommer
Gender, law and sexuality in late imperial China; comparative history of gender and sexuality; Qing dynasty documents, especially legal case records

Jun Uchida
Modern Japanese history, Japanese imperialism and colonialism in Asia,
Japan-Korea relations, comparative colonialism

Karen Wigen (on leave spring 2008)
Early modern Japanese history, Japanese regionalism, landscape and identity, economic geography, historical cartography, geography education

Music:

Jindong Cai

Performing arts in China and Asia; Western classical music in China

 

Phillip Lipscy
International political economy, international institutions, and Japanese politics

Alice Lyman Miller (visiting)
(Research Fellow, Hoover Institution)

Chinese history, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese domestic politics

Daniel Okimoto (emeritus)
Political economy of Japan and Asia; U.S.-Japan relations; technology and security relations in Asia

Jean C. Oi
(Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies)

Rural reform and governance in China; reform of state-owned enterprises, Chinese politics, political economy, institutions and transitional systems

Carl Bielefeldt

East Asian Buddhism, with particular emphasis on the intellectual history of the Zen tradition

Paul Harrison
Buddhist literature, Mahayana Buddhism, revelation and authority in the Buddhist tradition; history of the Tibetan canon and the study of Buddhist manuscripts

Fabrizio Pregadio
Daoism and Chinese thought and religion; doctrines of Daoism, their foundation in metaphysical and cosmological thought, application to alchemy, meditation, and self-cultivation techniques, and historical development

Lee H. Yearley
Comparative religious ethics, virtue theory, selected Christian thinkers, classical Chinese thought

Qiang Li (visiting, winter 2008)
Migrant workers in urban China, social stratification and inequality in China's transitional economy, property rights regimes, and urban sociology

Gi-Wook Shin
(Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies)

Korean democratization, nationalism, U.S.-Korea relations, reconciliation and cooperation in Northeast Asia, social roots of rapid postwar industrialization

Andrew Walder
(Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies)

Political movements in China during the Cultural Revolution, impacts of market reform, political sociology; stratification and mobility

Xueguang Zhou
(Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies)

Institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society; rural governance in China, sociology of organizations, urban China, economic sociology

Michael. H. Armacost (Freeman Spogli Institute For International Studies)

Scott W. Atlas (Medicine)

Barton Bernstein (History)

Martin Carnoy (Education)

Robert Crews (History)

Larry Diamond (Hoover Institution)

Karen Eggleston (Freeman Spogli Institute For International Studies)

Donald K. Emmerson (Freeman Spogli Institute For International Studies)

Walter Falcon (Freeman Spogli Institute For International Studies)

James S. Fishkin (Communications)

Pamela Hinds (Management Science & Engineering)

David Holloway (Freeman Spogli Institute For International Studies)

Alex Inkeles (Hoover Institution)

David Katzenstein (Medicine)

Samuel Lebaron (Medicine)

Hau Lee (Business)

John W. Lewis (Political Science)

Juhn Liou (Geological And Environmental Sciences)

Mark Mancall (History)

Bruce Mckern (Business)

Thomas Metzger (Hoover Institution)

William F. Miller (Business)

Ramon Myers (Hoover Institution)

Mark Peattie (Hoover Institution)

Francisco Ramirez (Education, Sociology)

John Roberts (Business)

Henry Rowen (Freeman Spogli Institute For International Studies)

Nancy Shulman (Medicine)

Robert Sinclair (Materials Science And Engineering)

Kenneth Singleton (Business)