Current Visiting Scholars

Yue Fu is a visiting scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies since September 2023. Her supervisor is Professor Li Liu. Between 2000-2010, she received her B.A., M.A . and Ph.D in History (Archaeology Major) from Wuhan University in China. Then she taught Chinese Archaeology at Department of Culturology, School of History and Culture, Center China Normal University and became an associate professor in 2013. Her research interests include Chinese archaeology of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties as well as the Chu Culture, especially archaeological culture of the Western Zhou in the Midstream of the Yangtze River. From 2018 to 2019, she was a visiting scholar guided by Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen at the Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA. She was also a visiting scholar at the Stanford Archaeology Center(2022-2023).

Ellen Huang, Ph.D., researches the relationship between art, science and materials focusing on design and China. Huang has published for museum publications and academic journals about Buddhist material culture and ink painting, taught and researched in Taipei, Beijing, Seoul, and Shanghai and held positions at university art museums as a curator. Selected exhibitions include Ink Worlds (2018), Earthly Hollows: Cave and Kiln (2018), The Buddha’s Word (2018), and Clouding: Sign and Symbol in Asian Art (2021). She is a faculty member at the ArtCenter College of Design (Pasadena, CA) where she teaches art and design histories. She is completing a manuscript about Jingdezhen porcelain in the early modern world as a translated practice.

Janice Stockard, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist specializing in Chinese studies. Her research and publications focus on the effects of globalization and technological change on gender, family, and marriage in China – and cross-culturally. She recently co-authored the first digital cultural anthropology text, Cultural Anthropology: Mapping Cultures Across Space and Time (Cengage 2018), providing students with greater in-depth focus on China than any other introductory text.

Stockard’s first ethnography, Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930, was based on the three years she spent interviewing South China silk workers. Originally published by Stanford Press (1989), Daughters is currently being translated for publication in China. For the new 2024 Chinese edition, Stockard is working with her original research assistant to develop a new introduction focused on strategies of ethnographic interviewing.

In a new expanded 2023 manuscript (under review) Stockard, focuses on the rise and decline of another silk industry. In Tree, Worm & Reel: Silk Roads through New England, 1750-1950, Stockard tracks early U.S. experiments to develop a domestic silk industry, the rise of a regional New England silk culture and its roads back to China.

Gerui Wang’s research interests span arts, public policy, environment, and technologies. Her first book From Painting to Pillow: Landscape, Governance and Ecology in China, 1000-1400, is forthcoming from the Hong Kong University Press. The manuscript demonstrates the overlooked ecological thinking and notions of “sustainability” manifested in flourishing landscape imagery across artistic media, medicinal treatises, cartographical practices, and geographical writings. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Chinese History and Newsletter for International China Studies. Gerui’s new project examines artificial intelligence and contemporary art, especially works produced by Asian Artists or Artists of the Asian Diaspora. The project examines issues of human creativity and human-machine collaborations, algorithms and the creative process, boundaries of reality and virtuality, cultural traditions mediated through AI, and ethics in AI art. Gerui also published opinion pieces in the South China Morning Post on topics including international relations, AI and urban economy, AI’s applications in the cultural industry, among others. Gerui has previously worked for the Stanford Center for Philanthropy & Civil Society and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Before Stanford she worked for a decade at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, collaborating with the research, curatorial, as well as development teams which fostered a transformational $12 million gift to the Museum. Gerui is a Lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz and holds a Ph.D from the University of Michigan.

Jing Yan, Ph.D., She is Associate Professor of Beijing Dance Academy. She was previously the Executive Director of Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Research Center for Minzu Dance and has 23 years of experience as a university teacher. Jing Yan's research focuses on world traditional dance culture and art anthropology. Her works, such as Ethnic Group Sharing of Physical Experience—A Study of Circle Dance of Mixed Ethnic Groups Cohabitating in Lanping, Yunnan, Images about the Chinese Dance Culture, Dance with People—Field Study and Application Research of Chinese Folk Dance mainly focus on the study of dance of ethnic minorities in China. She is currently a curator at the China Dance Museum of Beijing Dance Academy and has led multiple projects and curated several dance exhibitions. In recent years, she has been to India, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Italy, Switzerland and other countries for academic exchanges and visits. She holds a Ph.D degree from Minzu University of China and M.A. from Beijing Dance Academy.

Helen Young is author of Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (University of Illinois Press, 2001). She continues to pursue research, writing, and lecturing on the experience of women in modern Chinese history.

Zhang Rongkun(张榕坤)is Associate Professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. She received her PhD in Chinese Philosophy from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(2018). She is also a visiting scholar of Copenhagen University(2014-2015), National Taiwan University(2016-2017) and National ChengChi University(2010-2011). Her research focuses on Daoism(Zhuangzi’s philosophy).