Current Visiting Scholars

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.

Li Wang is an associated professor of Shanghai University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in modern Chinese history in 2012 from Fudan University in Shanghai.

Wang’s academic interest is primarily the financial history of modern China, with a special focus on institutional and financial reform of the Republican China. Between 2008 and 2012 she participated in joint projects between the Hoover Institution Archives and Fudan University on archival collections and publications. She was a recipient of several government funding and awards in the fields of teaching and research. Her publications include a Chinese book entitled American Financial Advisor Arthur N. Young and Wartime Finance of Republic of China (Shanghai: Orient Publishing Center) and several journal articles published in leading academic journals in China.

Wang Li has been working on the political leadership of modern China based on archival materials abroad. She is currently exploring the historical formation of China’s modernization as well as the interpretation of the evolving image of the Chinese Communist Party from a fresh and comparative perspective.

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.