Paul J. Anderer deBary/Class of ’41 Professor of Asian Humanities

Paul Anderer holds degrees from Michigan (BA ’71), Chicago (MA ’72), and Yale (Ph.D. ’79). He joined the Columbia faculty in 1980. From 1989 until 1997, he was the chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has also served the University as Vice Provost for International Relations, as Associate Vice-President for Academic Planning and Global Initiatives in the Arts and Sciences, and as Acting Dean of the Graduate School. His writings include Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction (Columbia, 1984); and Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo—Literary Criticism, 1924-1939 (Stanford, 1995), along with numerous articles exploring the culture of the city (Tokyo) and Japanese modernity. His work has been awarded support from the NEH, the SSRC, and the Fulbright Commission. He teaches Japanese fiction, film, and cultural criticism in addition to Asian Humanities. He is currently writing a book on the black and white films of Kurosawa Akira, in their relationship to the Japanese post-war and to the era of silent film-making.

414 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-1525
Email: pja1@columbia.edu

Charles K. Armstrong Associate Professor (Department of History)

Charles Armstrong specializes in modern Korean and East Asian history. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1984 his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. His published works include The North Korean Revolution, 1945 - 1950 (Cornell, 2002), Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State (Routledge, 2002), "The Cultural Cold War in Korea," Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming February 2003), "America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam," Critical Asian Studies (December 2001) and "The Origins of North Korean Cinema,"
Acta Koreana (January 2002). Center for Korean Research: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ckr 

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Phone:(212) 854-1525
Email:cra10@columbia.edu

Weihong Bao Assistant Professor

Weihong Bao, assistant professor of Chinese film and media culture, received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2006). Trained in both film studies and East Asian literature and culture, she focuses on early Chinese cinema, with broad interests in Chinese cinema, drama, and visual culture from late Qing to the contemporary period as well as international silent cinema, film theory, and film history. Her book manuscript examines the historical operation of aesthetic affect and intermediality from late 19th century to the mid 1940s in Chinese film and media culture. Her research and teaching interests center on film and intermedial aesthetics, spectatorship and the history of perception, visual and acoustic modernity, and genre connections across modern Chinese literature, drama, and cinema. Her recent publications include "In Search of a Cinematic Esperanto: exhibiting Wartime Chongqing Cinema in Global Context,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 3:2 (2009)); "Biomechanics of Love: Reinventing the Avant-Garde in Tsai Ming-liang's Wayward 'Pornographic Musical,'" Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1:2 (2007); "From Pearl White to White Rose Woo, Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931," Camera Obscura 60 (2005); and "A Panoramic Worldview: Probing the Visuality of Dianshizhai huabao," Journal of Modern Chinese Literature 32 (March 2005).

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Phone:(212) 854-0370
Email:wb2191@columbia.edu

Robert Barnett Lecturer in Modern Tibetan Studies for EALAC

Robert Barnett is a member of Columbia's East Asian Institute and a Consultant for the Centre d'Analyse et de Pre'vision in Paris. He has edited or written a number of books on modern Tibet, including A Poisoned Arrow - the Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama (1998), Leaders in Tibet - A Directory (1997), Cutting Off the Serpent's Head - Tightening Control in Tibet 1994-95 (1996) and Resistance and Reform in Tibet (1994). From 1987-98 he was Director of the Tibet Information Network, an independent news and research project in London. He has also worked as a journalist for the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), the BBC, the Observer, the Independent (London), and other news outlets.

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Phone:(212) 854-1725
Email:rjb58@columbia.edu

Kim Brandt Associate Professor

Kim Brandt joined the Columbia faculty in 2007. She specializes in twentieth-century Japanese cultural and social history, and her research interests include consumerism, imperialism, and transnational forms of cultural production. Publications include Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Duke University Press, 2007). Brandt’s current research, a book project, deals with the cultural dimensions of Japan’s international rehabilitation after World War II.  She received her Ph.D. from Columbia (1996). 

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Phone:(212) 854-5033
Email:lb28@columbia.edu

Michael Como Assistant Professor (Department of Religion)

Michael Como, Assistant Professor (B.A., Harvard, 1985; Ph.D., Stanford, 2000), is Tōshū Fukami Professor of Shinto Studies. His recent research has focused on the religious history of the Japanese islands from the Asuka through the early Heian periods. His publications include several articles on the ritual and political consequences of the introduction of literacy, sericulture and horse-culture from the Asian sub-continent in Japan. He is also the author of "Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual and Violence in the Formation of Japanese Buddhism" (Oxford University Press, 2008) and "Weaving and Binding: Female Shamans and Immigrant Gods in Nara Japan" (forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press). He is currently working on a new manuscript tentatively entitled “Resonant Bodies: Disease and Astrology in the Heian Cultic Revolution".

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Email:mc2575@columbia.edu

Wm. Theodore de Bary John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus

AB Columbia 1941, MA '48, PhD '53; D. Litt St. Lawrence '68; LHD Loyola (Chicago) '70; D. Litt. Columbia '94. Teaches Asian Humanities and Civilizataions, Chinese and Japanese Thought, Neo-Confucianism in China, Korea and Japan. Recent Publications: Sources of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Tradition (Columbia, 1999-2001); Asian Values and Human Rights (Harvard 1998); Confucianism and Human Rights (Columbia 1997); Waiting for the Dawn (Columbia 1992); The Trouble with Confucianism (Harvard 1991); East Asian Civilizations (Harvard 1987).

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Email:wtd1@columbia.edu

Wiebke Denecke Assistant Professor (Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College)

Wiebke Denecke teaches and writes about thought and literature of pre-modern China and Japan, and more generally literatures of the ancient world and strategies of crosscultural comparison.

She is completing a book manuscript that recaptures the development of early Chinese "philosophy" as a history of the traditional Chinese genre of "Masters Literature" [zhuzi baijia]. Her second book project, entitled "In the Footprints of Others: Latin and Early Japanese Writers and their own Literature," examines how early Japanese and Latin authors wrote their literature through and against Greek, respectively Chinese, precedents. B.A. (equal.) and M. A.: George August University (Gottingen, Germany) Ph.D.: Harvard University For CV and publications see: http://www.barnard.edu/amec/profiles/wdenecke.html

http://www.barnard.edu/amec/profiles/denecke.html

Eguchi Shigeru Lecturer in Japanese.

Mr. Eguchi has taught all levels of Japanese at Columbia University.  He is also the Administrative Director of the Summer MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy since 2006.  He has over a dozen years of experience teaching Japanese at Columbia, and also taught at Middlebury College’s Summer Program in Japanese, and at the Hokkaido International Foundation.  He obtained his MA in Japanese Pedagogy at the University of Iowa, and received his BA from Ibaraki University (Japan).  He has developed teaching lessons based on unusual and creative materials, including haiku and video projects.  He has co-authored Japanese language textbooks, including “Schaum’s Outlines – Japanese Vocabulary” (McGraw-Hill Company, 2000), and is currently developing new textbooks for intermediate level (Routledge, 2011) with Dr. Fumiko Nazikian, and other colleagues.

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Phone:(212 )854-3523
Email: se53@columbia.edu

Bernard Faure Kao Professor of Japanese Religion

Bernard Faure received his Ph.D. (Doctorat d’Etat) from Paris University (1984). He is interested in various aspects of East Asian Buddhism, with an emphasis on Chan/Zen and Tantric or esoteric Buddhism. His work, influenced by anthropological history and cultural theory, has focused on topics such as the construction of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the Buddhist cult of relics, iconography, sexuality and gender. His current research deals with the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism and its relationships with medieval Japanese religion. He has published a number of books in French and English. His English publications include: The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism (Princeton 1991), Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition (Princeton 1993), Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Princeton 1996), The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (Princeton 1998), The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender (Princeton 2003), and Double Exposure (Stanford 2004). He is presently working on a book on Japanese Gods and Demons.

Carol Gluck George Sansom Professor of History (Department of History)

Carol Gluck specializes in the history of modern Japan, nineteenth century to the present.  She received her B.A. from Wellesley in 1962, and her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1977.  Her publications include Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton, 1985), Showa: The Japan of Hirohito (Norton, 1992), Asia in Western and World History (Sharpe, 1997), Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History (University of California, 2008, and Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

JaHyun Kim Haboush King Sejong Professsor of Korean Studies

A native of Seoul, Korea, Professor Haboush completed her graduate studies at the University of Michigan (MA 1970 in Chinese Literature) and at Columbia University (Ph. D 1978 in Korean and Chinese History). A cultural historian of pre-modern and early modern Korea, particularly from 16th to 19th centuries, she is also interested in and teaches literature. Her current areas of interest include political culture, pre-modern nationalism, diglossia, language and ideology, genre, gender, and historiography. Her publications include A Heritage of Kings: One Man’s Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988), The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001), and The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyông: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996) for which she won the Korean Arts and Culture Foundation’s Grand Prize in Translation and Criticism in 1977. She also coedited The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (1985), Culture and the State in Late Chosôn Korea (1999), and Women in Pre-Modern Confucian Cultures in China, Korea and Japan (2003).

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Email:jkh25@columbia.edu

Hamada Hideki Lecturer in Japanese

Hideki Hamada received his M.S. (2002) and Ph.D (2009) in language education from Indiana University. His dissertation examines the strategies and attitudes of Japanese expatriate families living in the U.S. towards the maintenance and development of their children’s Japanese in addition to other issues regarding their children’s education in the U.S. Before joining Columbia faculty in 2008, he was in charge of mathematics and geography for the seventh grade students at Indiana Japanese Language School from 2004 to 2006 and taught Japanese at Knox College for two years. At Columbia University, he has taught the First Year Japanese, Elementary Japanese, and Professional Japanese.

Hamada has been utilizing technologies such as blogging and podocasting in order to engage students in communication with an authentic audience.

He has also presented at academic conferences regarding creativity, autonomous learning, and “design” as lenses to analyze these new technologies.

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Phone:(212 )854-5500
Email: hh2373@columbia.edu

Hatakeyama Mamoru Lecturer in Japanese

Mr. Hatakeyama received his B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature from Waseda University and his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000) in Japanese with a concentration on Japanese linguistics. He taught Japanese at Emory University from 2000 to 2001 before joining the Columbia faculty in 2001. He has taught first, second and third year Japanese at Columbia. His recent publications include articles on corpus linguistics and on the use of blogs for language learning. Corpus linguistics: "Quantifier Use by Learners of Japanese in OPI Corpus," can be found in the Proceedings 13th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, 100-123; 2008, and "Compound VerbsUsage in Written Japanese: A Corpus-Based Analysis by Chakoshi" can be found online.

Blogging in language learning: "Application of Blogging for Japanese Language Learning: For Free Self-Expression and Participation in the “Real” Japanese Language Communities Outside the Classroom" can be found in Nihongoronsoo no kai,　Tokyo, Japan, p.340-351, 2007b. The article "Commenting in Blogs: Dialogues vs. Discussions" can also be found online. The article "Blog as a Tool to Achieve 5C: Blog for National Standards for Teaching Japanese" Can be found in the Proceedings 18th Annual Conference of Central Association of Teachers of Japanese, 209-224.

He is also a certified tester of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’s (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in Japanese.

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Phone:(212 )854-5502
Email: mh2020@columbia.edu

Hikari Hori Associate Research Scholar

Hikari Hori received her Ph. D. in gender studies and Japanese visual cultural studies from Gakushuin University, Tokyo, in 2004.  She has worked as a research associate at the National Film Center, Tokyo, and also as a film program coordinator at the Japan Society, New York.  Her current research interests include the representation of the Emperor in modern Japanese visual culture; a history of women’s activism in modern Japan; war, state and gender represented in arts and film; the representation of sexuality and film censorship; and shojo manga in Asia.  Recent publications include: “Aging, Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Popular Culture: Female Pornographer Sachi Hamano and Her Film “Lily Festival” (Yurisai), ” in Matsumoto, ed. Faces and Masks (Stanford University Press, forthcoming);  “Oshima Nagisa’s ‘Ai no korida’ Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema,” in Creekmur and Sidel, eds., Cinema, Law and the State in Asia (Palgrave, 2007); “Written by a Woman’s Body: Atsugi Taka and Wartime Representation of Women,” in Saito and Yomota, eds., Nihon eigashi sosho (Shinwasha, 2006); “Migration and Transgression: Female Pioneers’ Documentary Filmmaking in Japan,” Asian Cinema Journal Vol. 11 (2005).

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Phone:(212) 854-5744
Email:hh2104@columbia.edu

Hu Lingjun Lecturer in Chinese

Lingjun Hu received her M.A. in Language Pedagogy from the Ohio State University (2003). She started teaching Chinese in 2000 and joined Columbia faculty in 2006, and has taught Chinese at all levels. She also teaches for the the Columbia and Princeton summer programs in Beijing. Her research interests include second language acquisition and Chinese language pedagogy. She has developed teaching materials for elementary Chinese and is one of the co-authors of a textbook for Business Chinese.

508 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-7036
Email: lh2318@columbia.edu

Theodore Hughes Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities

Theodore Hughes received his Ph.D. in modern Korean literature from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. His current research interests include coloniality; proletarian literature and art; cultures of national division; visuality and the global Cold War. Recent publications include “Return to the Colonial Present: Ch’oe In-hun’s Cold War Pan-Asianism” (forthcoming in positions: east asia cultures critique); “Dongducheon: Everyday Life, Violence, and the State of Exception” (BOL, 2008); ‘“North Koreans’ and other Virtual Subjects: Kim Yŏng-ha, Hwang Suk-young, and National Division in the Age of Posthumanism” (The Review of Korean Studies, 2008); “Korean Memories of the Vietnam and Korean Wars: A Counter-History” (Japan Focus, 2007); “Korean Visual Modernity and the Developmental Imagination” (SAI, 2006); “Development as Devolution: Nam Chŏng-hyŏn and the ‘Land of Excrement’ Incident” (Journal of Korean Studies, 2005); “Producing Sovereign Spaces in the Emerging Cold War World Order: Immediate Postliberation ‘North’ and ‘South’ Korean Literature” (Han’guk Munhak Yŏn’gu, 2005); Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul (Norwalk: EastBridge, 2005).

Robert P. W. Hymes H. Walpole Carpentier Professor of Chinese History

Robert Hymes received his B.A. from Columbia College (1972), and his M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Pennsylvania. 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 methods of the local historian to study elite culture, family and kinship, medicine, religion, gender, and (currently) the changing role and form of Chinese social networks from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. His publications include Statesmen & Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern & Southern Sung (Cambridge, 1987); Ordering the World: Approaches to State & Society in Sung Dynasty China (Berkeley, 1993, co-edited with Conrad Schirokauer); and Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Both Statesmen and Gentlemen and Way and Byway won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China in their years of publication. Prof. Hymes is  currently department chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Jamspal Lozang Lecturer in Classical Tibetan

GEN DR. LOZANG JAMSPAL teaches classical Tibetan language at Columbia University in New York City, where he received his PhD in 1991 and Masters of Philosophy in 1989. Dr. Jamspal began his studies of Tibetan Language, Literature, Religion, and Philosophy at Tashilhunpo Monastic University, receiving his Rigs chen Degree (A.M.) there in 1954. There he memorized the tshad ma'i bstan bcos rigs pa'i rgyan (Logic book) by Panchen Gendun Drub and offered the voluntary test recitation to HH the late Panchen Lama, Jetsun Lozang Trinley Lhundrub Chokyi Gyeltsen. As a recognition of his achievement in this recitation, HH the Panchen Lama awarded him the bstod 'gag in 1956. Dr. Jamspal went on to receive Shastri and Archarya degrees in 1964 and 1968, respectively, from Sanskrit University in Benares, India. He emigrated to the United States at the request of Geshe Wangyal in 1974.

Dr. Jamspal is the Founder and Director of the Tibetan Classics Translators Guild of New York. His collected translation and redaction work will be available from the Guild’s website at www.tibetan-classics.org. He is currently completing a massive project of correcting erranda in recently published editions of classical Tibetan Buddhist works in the interest of preserving the classical Tibetan language.

Recent print publications include:
Co-translator of The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature, Mah›y›sÒtr›la˙k›ra by Maitreyan›tha/ fisaºga, together with its Commentary (Bh›˝ya) by Vasubandu, published by AIBS at Columbia Unversity, 2004. Hindi-Tibetan Dictionary, (the largest among the Hindi Tibetan Dictionaries in existence until now), published by Central  Institute of Buddhist Studies, Choglamsar, Leh, Ladakh, (J&K) India, 2003. Treasury of Good Sayings of Sa skya Pandita, published by Ladakh-Ratnashridipika, Leh, Ladakh, (J&K) India.  Stages of Meditation of Vimalamitra, translated from the Tibetan into English, published by Ladakh-Ratnashridipika, Leh-Ladakh, (J&K) India, 2000.

303 80 Calaremont
Phone:(212 )854-4143
Email: lj53@columbia.edu

Donald Keene Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature

Donald Keene received his B.A. (1942), M.A. (1947), and Ph.D. (1949) degrees from Columbia University, and his Litt. D. from Cambridge University in 1978. He is the recipient of the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the Society for the Advancement of Japanese Culture (1962); the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (1993) and Third Class (1975); the Japan Foundation Prize (1983); the Yomiuri Shimbun Prize (1985); the Shincho Grand Literary Prize (1985); the Tokyo Metropolitan Prize (1987); the Radio and Television Culture Prize (1993); and the Asahi Prize (1998). He has received honorary degrees from St. Andrew's College (1990), Middlebury College (1995), Columbia University (1997), Tohoku University (1997), Waseda University (1998), Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku (1999), and Keiwa University (2000). He was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Literary Prize for the best book of literary criticism in Japanese (awarded in 1985 for the original Japanese version of Travelers of a Hundred Ages) and he was awarded the Nihon Bungaku Taisho (Grand Prize of Japanese Literature) for the same work. In 1991 he received the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandorf Award, and in 1994 he won the Inoue Yasushi Prize. Professor Keene has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1976, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1986; and in 1990 he became an honorary member of the Japan Academy. He began teaching at Columbia University in 1955, and was named Columbia University Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in 1981 and University Professor in 1989; he is currently a University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus. Professor Keene has published approximately 25 books in English, consisting of studies of Japanese literature and culture, translations of Japanese works of both classical and modern literature, and edited works including two anthologies of Japanese literature and the collection Twenty Plays of the No Theatre. His major publications include a four-volume history of Japanese literature. Professor Keene's Japanese publications include approximately 30 books, some written originally in Japanese, others translated from English. The Japanese translation of his history of Japanese literature has appeared in 18 volumes. His biography of Emperor Meiji in two volumes was published in October 2001 by Shinchosha. The English text, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, was published by Columbia University Press in 2002.

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Phone:(212) 854-5036
Email:dk8@columbia.edu

Dorothy Ko Professor (History, Barnard College)

Professor Ko's research interest is the everyday lives of women in China --along with the domestic objects they made by hand--as a significant part of country's cultural, economic and political development. She works at the intersections of anthropology, history, and women's studies.

Ko's recent book, Cinderella Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding, published in 2005, shattered the popular conception of footbinding as a tool to oppress women and demonstrated that it was instead a source of female identity, purpose, pride, and power. It won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, Recently, she has been turning her attention to the skills of women’s artisans such as embroiderers, stone carvers, and ceramic artists. Her research during spring semester, 2004, as a senior fellow at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center's Institute for International Research in Nanjing, focused on the importance of ancient art of silk-weaving for a study of the dress-making tradition and domestic work culture in China's silk industry region. More recently, as a fellow at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, England, in spring 2007, she researched ancient swordsmith legends for insights into the relations between bodily investments and transformation of matter.

In addition to Cinderella’s Sisters, Ko has written numerous books and publications, including “Between the Boudoir and the Global Market: Shen Shou, Embroidery and Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” in Looking Modern (forthcoming), Every Step a Lotus (2001), and Teachers of the Inner Chambers (1994). She is also co-editor of Women and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan.

Ko's courses include Chinese cultural history, body histories, women and culture in 17th century China, and Confucian cultures.

Ko earned undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University, including the doctorate. She has received a number of fellowships and awards. She was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (2000-2001), a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2000-2001) and a fellow at the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1999-2000). Before joining the Barnard faculty in 2001, Professor Ko taught at Rutgers University.

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Phone:(212) 854-9624
Email:dk2031@columbia.edu

James Lap Lecturer in Vietnamese

James T Lap has been teaching Vietnamese language at Columbia University since 2004 and at New York University since 1997. He is also a tutor and mentor for Ph. D. students and an advisor for students with senior thesis. He was translator of Vietnamese Children’s Picture Dictionary: English-Vietnamese/Vietnamese-English published by Hippocrene Books in 2006. His current research is on Romanization of the Vietnamese language in the 17th century. He was Advisory Board member for the Vietnam exhibition and simultaneous interpreter for the international conference on Vietnam in the 21st century in 2003 at the American Museum of Natural History, the first exhibition of this kind in the U.S. He graduated from Columbia University and New York University with MS and BA degrees respectively.

407 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5027
Email: jtl60@columbia.edu

Eugenia Lean Associate Professor

Eugenia Lean received her BA from Stanford University (1990), and her MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from UCLA. She is interested in a broad range of topics in Chinese history with a particular focus on the history of late imperial and modern China, urban culture, gender and the history of emotions, politics of modernity, and issues of historiography and critical theory. Her publications include Politics of Passion: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Public Sympathy in Nineteen-thirties China (UC Press, forthcoming), "The Making of a Public: Emotions and Media Sensation in 1930s China," Twentieth Century China (April 2004) and "Reflections on Theory, Gender and the Psyche in the Study of Chinese History," Funu lishi yanjiu fukan [Research on Women in Modern Chinese History] (August 1998). Articles based on her research have also been translated and published in Chinese. Her current project examines Lux Soap and the discourse of health and beauty in Republican China's consumer culture

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Phone:(212) 854-1742
Email:eyl2006@columbia.edu

Lee Beom Lecturer in Korean

Lee Beom received his B.A. (1988) and M.A. (1990) in sociology from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, and earned an M.A. (2002) and Ed.M. (2005) in Instructional Technology and Media, specialized in second language learning with multimedia, from Teachers Collage, Columbia University. In Korea, he taught philosophy, history, and culture of Korea and English in the Republic of Korea Army as a military officer in education and psychological warfare. He also worked for Hyundai Construction and Engineering Company as an assistant project manager, teaching job skills and computer software programs. From 2001, he instructed in multimedia software programs at Teachers College as a technology assistant, and taught non-heritage students Chinese characters and Korean as an associate at Korean Language Program, Columbia University. Beom Lee joined Columbia faculty in 2005.

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Phone:(212 )854-5144
Email: bl355@columbia.edu

Feng Li Associate Professor

Feng Li, associate professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology, received his MA (1986) from the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Ph.D (2000) from the University of Chicago. He is both a historian of Early China specializing in inscriptions of the Shang-Zhou period, and an active field archaeologist. Among his recent publications are: Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC (Cambridge 2006); Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou (Cambridge 2008). The first addresses the complex relationship between geography and political process in the weakening and collapse of a prominent Bronze-Age state, and the second examines the performance of the earliest bureaucracy in China and the evolving nature of the early Chinese state. His co-edited volume (with David Branner), Writing and Literacy in Early China (UW Press, forthcoming) is the first systematic effort to define the social dimensions of literacy in Early China. His works consider both textual-epigraphic and material evidence and attempt general interpretations of Bronze-Age society and culture. He has been directing Columbia’s first archaeological survey and excavation project in China (Shandong) since 2006, and co-chairs the Columbia Early China Seminar (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/EarlyChina/ecs.html). Publication list found at the Center for Archaeology: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archaeology/fac-bios/li/faculty.html

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Phone:(212) 854-2510
Email:fl123@columbia.edu

Liu Lening Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Director of Chinese Language Program

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Phone:(212 )854-7036
Email: ll172@columbia.edu

Liu Liping Lecturer in Chinese

Liping Liu is currently an exchange lecturer in the Chinese Language Program at EALAC. She recieved her B.A. degree(1998) from Henan Normal University (China) in Study of Chinese Language and Literature, and her M.A.degree(2003) and Ph.D (2006) from Beijing Language and Culture University ( China) in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics .She started her career teaching Chinese as a second language in 2006 at Beijing Language and Culture University.

508 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-7036
Email: ll2602@columbia.edu

Lydia Liu W. T. Tam Professor in the Humanities

Lydia Liu, professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, specializes in modern Chinese literature and culture, critical translation theory, postcolonial empire studies, as well as semiotics and media studies. Professor Liu received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (1990) and has taught at UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan before joining Columbia University in 2006. Her work has focused on literary modernity in translation, the movement of words, ideas, and artifacts across cultures, sovereign thinking in the nineteenth century, and the evolution of writing, textuality, and technology. Her current research focuses on the relationship between literature and science in general and the interaction between modernism and technology in particular. She has published a number of books in English and Chinese. Her English publications include Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity (1995), The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (2004), Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations (edited, 1999), and Writing and Materiality in China (co-edited with Judith Zeitlin, 2003). Her published research in the field of English literature includes “Robinson Crusoe’s Earthenware Pot” in Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History (ed., Noah Heringman) and a recent article titled “iSpace: Printed English After Joyce, Shannon, and Derrida” in Critical Inquiry (spring 2006). She is currently finishing a book on literary theory and New Media.

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Phone:(212) 854-5631
Email:ll2410@columbia.edu

David Lurie Associate Professor

David Lurie, associate professor of Japanese history and literature, received his B.A. from Harvard (1993) and his M.A. (1996) and PhD. (2001) from Columbia. His first book, on the development of writing systems in Japan through the Heian period, is entitled Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing (forthcoming from the Harvard University Asia Center). Other publications include "Language, Writing, and Disciplinarity in the Critique of the 'Ideographic Myth': Some Proleptical Remarks," Language & Communication 26 (2006); A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, 2nd edition (coauthored with Conrad Schirokauer and Suzanne Gay, 2006); and "On the Inscription of the Hitomaro Poetry Collection: Between Literary History and the History of Writing," Man'yoshu kenkyu 26 (2004). In addition to the history of writing systems and literacy, his research interests include the literary and cultural history of seventh- through twelfth- century Japan, the Japanese reception of Chinese literary, historical, and technical writings, the development of Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias, and the history of linguistic thought.

http://www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/selfintro.html

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Phone:(212) 854-5316
Email:dbl11@columbia.edu

Meng Yuan-Yuan Lecturer in Chinese

Yuan-Yuan Meng has been teaching Mandarin Chinese at Columbia University since 1993.  She has taught classes from elementary to advanced levels, including Readings in Modern Chinese, Media Chinese, and a winter Business Chinese workshop for Columbia's Center for International Business Education and Research.  Her academic interests encompass a range of topics in Chinese syntax, lexicology, and language pedagogy.  She is a co-author of "David and Helen in China,"  an intermediate Chinese text.  Her most recent work is a dictionary project tailored for advanced Chinese learners.  She is also a certified tester of the Chinese Oral Proficiency Interview with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

401 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-4740
Email: ym11@columbia.edu

David (Max) Moerman Associate Professor (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Barnard College)

Nazikian Fumiko Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Director of Japanese Language Program

Fumiko Nazikian received her Ph.D. in Japanese Linguistics from the University of Sydney, Australia. She joined Columbia University in 2004 as the director of the Japanese language program. She has taught all levels of Japanese from elementary to fourth year Japanese. She also teaches at the Columbia Summer M.A. program in Japanese Pedagogy. Prior to arriving at Columbia, she was a senior lecturer at Princeton University where she taught for 16 years. She has also taught at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, and the University of New South Wales. Her research interest is in linguistic pragmatics focusing on topics such as discourse analysis and exploring links between linguistics and language pedagogy.  Among her recent publications are “The Role of Style-Shifting in the Functions and Purposes of Storytelling:  Detective Stories in Anime” (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming); “Bringing learners’ perspectives into assessments: Self and peer Assessments in a Blog project” (Special Issue of Japanese Language and Literature: Japanese Pedagogy, the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 2008, co-author with M. Fukai & S. Shinji); “Danwa ni okeru jootai no kinoo nitsuite.” [On discourse functions of da detached style in Japanese] (Kuroshio Press, 2007); “Developing Learners’ Communication Skills through Story-Writing in Japanese Language Teaching” (Princeton University, 2007, co-author with Jisuk Park); Genkokyoiku no Shintenkai [New Perspectives on Language Teaching] (Hitsuji-shobo, 2005, co-edited with O. Kamada, M. Tsutsui, Y. Hatasa and M. Oka).  She is currently working on an intermediate textbook, Hiyaku with M. Nittono, S. Eguchi, K. Okamoto & J. Park. The book will be published by Routledge Press in 2011. She has acted as a reviewer of the AP Japanese Language and Culture Course and served as a committee member for the Japanese SAT.  She was elected to the Board of the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) in 2008.

518 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-8345
Email: fn2108@columbia.edu

Nittono Miharu Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Miharu Nittono earned her Ed. D. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University.  She received her MA from Waseda University
(Japan) and also received an MA in TESOL from Teachers College.  She is a senior instructor of Japanese at Columbia University, where she has taught all levels of Japanese.  She also has experience teaching intensive summer courses in Japanese, including “Japanese Language and Culture” at Sophia University in Tokyo as an invited professor. 

She has also served as the Administrative Director of the MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University.  Her research interest has focused on Japanese “hedging” (the use of “softening” language to increase politeness or to achieve nuance).  Her recent publications include: “Contrasting Group Size and Hedge Use” (2008); “Avoidance and Appeal: A Two-Fold Motivation for Japanese Hedging Use” (2007); “Hedging at Work: How Occupations Affect the Use of Hedging in Japanese Interactions during Non-Work Conversations” (2007); “Two-Fold Conversation Management Function of Japanese Hedging: Speaker-Centered and Listener-Centered” (2006); “The Golden Mean: Japanese Speakers’ Use of ‘Downtoners’” (2005).

520 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5502
Email: mn70@columbia.edu

Norbu Tenzin Nangsal Lecturer in Modern Tibetan

He was born in Tibet and graduated from Tibet University in 1990.  He taught Tibetan language and biology in Tibet from 1990 to 1993.  From 1993 to 1996 he worked as environmental researcher in India. Since 1999, he has been teaching "Modern Tibetan language" course at Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.   Summer 1999-2000, he taught Tibetan language course at Virginia University.And he also taught Tibetan cultural course at Indiana University in Bloomington in summer 2001-2002. He worked as assistant librarian at the Latse-Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library in New York in 2000-2003.    He also worked at C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University as Tibetan Collection Specialist from September 2003-September 2006. He is Tibetan language examiner for Yale University since 2003. In August 2004, he took a consultancy position in the Center for Teacher Education, Training and Research as a document and course translator for the DOS Tibetan Teacher Training project at School of International Training in Vermont.    He is a member of the board of directors for Tibetan Arts and Literature Initiative (TALI), a non-profit organization based in the United States.

His publications include General introduction to Tibet's environment, co-authored with Tenzin P. Atisha, (India,1994), and two volumes on endangered species of Tibet, (India, 1995 & 1996), he compiled two volumes of catalogue books titled  The Catalogue of the King Songtsen Gampo Tibetan Collection in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University, (Weatherhead East Asian Institute & C. V. Starr East Asian Library, 2005), Open Eye Children's Series, eight volumes of young children's book series translated from Chinese and English to Tibetan, (Nationalities Publishing House in Beijing, 2005), and co-authored with his wife Tsering Choedron, the Tibetan-language children's book  A Little Frog and a Crow, (China, 2007), his second children book in Tibetan, Little Shepperd, Little Shepperd, What Are You Doing? (China,2009), and Concise Tibetan-English Visual Dictionary,(India, 2008).

907A IAB
Phone:(212 )854-4677
Email: tn218@columbia.edu

Okamoto Keiko Lecturer in Japanese

Keiko Okamoto has many years of experience teaching Japanese.  She has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Spence School, and has been a Senior Instructor at the Japan Society, among other locations.  She obtained an MA in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University, and received her BA in Linguistics at International Christian University (Tokyo), where she minored in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.  At Columbia University, Ms. Okamoto has taught a wide range of Japanese levels, ranging from beginner to early-advanced. Recently, she has been working with a team to create a new Japanese language textbook “Hiyaku” for intermediate level (Routledge, 2011).

520 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5502
Email: ko47@columbia.edu

Gregory M. Pflugfelder Associate Professor

Gregory Pflugfelder specializes in Japanese history and gender studies. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1981, his M.A. from Waseda in 1984, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1996. His books include Seiji to daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken undôshi (Politics and the kitchen: a history of the women¹s suffrage movement in Akita prefecture), which received the 1986 Yamakawa Kikue Prize, and Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. His current work engages the the historical construction of masculinities, the history of the body, and representations of monstrosity.

408 Kent
Phone:(212) 854-5035
Email:gmp12@columbia.edu

Sato Shinji Lecturer of Japanese

Shinji Sato completed his B.A. from Tohoku University in 1992, his M.A. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education from Teachers College at Columbia University in 2008. He specializes in educational and linguistic anthropology. His works critically examine self-evident notions in Japanese language education including learning, culture, communication, competence, and creativity. He also proposes alternative classroom practices. Sato is the co-author of several publications, including Bunka, kotoba, kyoiku: Nihongo/nihon no ‘hyojun’ o koete [Culture, Language, and Education: Beyond Japanese “standard”] (Akashi choten, 2008), Kyoshitsu kara sekai e mukete: Poddokyasuto o tukatta syakai bunkateki apurochi no jissen [From classroom to the world: Practice incorporated sociocultural approach using podcast] in Kotoba no kyoiku o jissen suru tankyu suru: Katsudo gata nihongo kyoiku no hirogari [Practicing and exploring language education: Activity-focused Japanese language education] (Bonjinsya, 2008), Bringing Sociocultural Aspects into the Assessment: Peer Learning and Portfolio Using Blog (Japanese Language and Literature, 2008), “Ignorance” as a Rhetorical Strategy: How Japanese Language Learners Living in Japan Maneuver Their Subject Positions to Shift Power Dynamics (Critical Studies in Education, 2009), and Communication as Intersubjective Activity: When Native/Non-Native Speaker’s Identity Appears in Computer-Mediated Communication in Native Speakers Effects: Standardization, Hybridity, and Power in Language Politics (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009). He is currently editing books on Japanese language education for the world citizens, alternative assessment of Japanese language education, and reexamination of intercultural communication in language education.

Shinji Sato’s homepage is: http://www.columbia.edu/~ss903/

516 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5500
Email: ss903@columbia.edu

Conrad Schirokauer Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor

Conrad Schirokauer is a Professor Emeritus of History  at the City University of New York .He studied at  Yale (BA)  and Stanford (PhD) as well as a year in  Paris, and conducted research mostly in Kyoto but also in China .  His published papers and  articles are mostly on  Zhu Xi  and Hu Hong. Together  with Professor Robert  Hymes, he edited Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China (1993). His current research interest is in Song  perceptions of and attitudes toward history. An article, “Hu Hong as  Historian” is in press.  Schirokauer  was associated with a  New York University summer graduate program for teachers in Japan and China and remains interested in how history is taught. A textbook author, he  has published  A Brief History of  Chinese and Japanese Civilizations (2nd ed 1989), with separate volumes of China (1990) and Japan (1993) . A new volume, Modern East Asia: A Brief History, written with Donald N. Clark, will appear in spring 2003.  Also worth mention, is his translation of China’s Examination Hell by Miyazaki Ichisada (1976,1981),  which he recommends  to any student  who feels burdened by examinations at  Columbia.

Carol H. Schulz Senior Lecturer, Director of Korean Language Program

Carol Schulz received her B.A. from Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea (1963), and her M.Ed. from Boston University (1969) and M.S. from Columbia University (1973). Carol H. Schulz joined Columbia faculty in 1973. Her publications include The Korean Proficiency Guidelines, co-authored with others, National Foreign Language Resource Center, (University of Hawaii, 1992), Integrated Korean, Beginning 1 and 2, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press, 2000), Workbook for Integrated Korean, Beginning 1, (University of Hawaii Press, 2000), Integrated Korean, Intermediate 1 and 2, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), Workbook for Integrated Korean, Intermediate 1, (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), and forthcoming books include The Korean Language in Culture and Society, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press), Listening Comprehension in Elementary Korean, co-authored with others, the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, (Yale University), and Online Listening Comprehension in Korean (Columbia University).

402 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5037
Email: chs3@columbia.edu

Wei Shang Associate Professor

Wei Shang, associate professor of Chinese literature, received his B.A. (1982) and M.A. (1984) from Peking University, and his Ph.D. (1995) from Harvard.  Professor Shang specializes in pre-modern Chinese culture and literature, especially fiction and drama of late imperial times.  His book on The Unofficial History of the Scholars (Rulin waishi) addresses the issues essential to the eighteenth-century intellectual discourse and literature: the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism.  It reveals Rulin waishi as both a product and a powerful response by a Confucian intellectual to cultural transformation in late imperial China—transformation that eventually brought to an end the Confucian world order.  In other studies Professor Shang focuses particularly on popular culture and publishing business of the Ming and Qing periods.  He is currently working on a book to be titled Commercial Publicity: Jin Ping Mei Cihua and late Ming Culture.  His publications, which are in both English and Chinese, include Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2003); “Jin Ping Mei and Late Ming Print Culture,” in Writing and Materiality in China, Harvard, 2003; “Ritual, Ritual Manuals, and the Crisis of the Confucian World: An Interpretation of Rulin waishi,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58 (1998); “Prisoner and Creator: The Self-Image of the Poet in Han Yu and Meng Jiao,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 16 (1994); “The Tendency Toward Fu in Early Tang Poetry,” Beijing daxue xuebao (Journal of Peking University) 5 (1986).  He is the author and co-editor of Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond (Harvard, forthcoming in 2004), and the co-editor of The Columbia Book of Yuan Drama (Columbia, forthcoming).

418 Kent
Phone:(212) 854-1526
Email:ws110@columbia.edu

Shi Zhongqi Lecturer of Chinese

Zhongqi Shi received his B.A. (1998) and M.A. (2005) from Beijing Language and Culture University, China. He has studied Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language since his undergraduate and started researching on CAI and Corpus Linguistics. He joined Columbia in 2005 and is currently teaching Advanced Chinese and Business Chinese.

Haruo Shirane Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature

Haruo Shirane received his B.A. from Columbia College (1974) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1983). He is a specialist in premodern and early modern Japanese literature and has written widely on prose fiction, poetry, literary theory, and cultural history. Recently he has explored the issues of canonization, popularization, and visual culture. He is the recipient of NEH, SSRC, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation fellowships.

His major publications include The Bridge of Dreams: Poetics of The Tale of Genji (Stanford University Press, 1987) which was translated into Japanese as Yume no ukihashi: Genji monogatari no shigaku (Chūō kōronsha, 1992) and won the Kadokawa Gen'yoshi Prize for the best study on Japanese literature, and The Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho (Stanford University Press, 1997) which was published in Japanese by Kadokawa shoten (2001) and received the 2002 Ishida Hakyō Prize. He has recently completed a manuscript on the role of nature in Japanese poetry and visual culture called Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Poetry, and Time-Space in Japan.

Haruo Shirane is editor of Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Social Imaginary, Media, and Cultural Production (Columbia University Press, 2008), Kōza Genji monogatari kenkyū: Kaigai ni okeru Genji monogatari kenkyū (Ōfū, 2008), and Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature (Stanford University Press, 2000), which appeared in Japanese (1999) and Korean (2002) and was co-edited with Tomi Suzuki. He has translated and edited Classical Japanese Literature, An Anthology: Beginnings to 1600 (Columbia UP, 2006) and Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Columbia University Press, 2002). He was also co-editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and edited The Tales of the Heike (Columbia University Press, 2006). He is the author of Classical Japanese: A Grammar (Columbia University Press, 2005) and Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary (Columbia University Press, 2006).

Click the following link for Professor's Shirane's personal website.

420 Kent
Phone:(212) 854-5031
Email:hs14@columbia.edu

Chih-Ping Sobelman Senior Lecturer in Chinese

501 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5038
Email: ccs3@columbia.edu

Tomi Suzuki Associate Professor

Tomi Suzuki is associate professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her B.A. (1974), and M.A. (1977), from the University of Tokyo, and her Ph.D. from Yale University (1988). She joined the faculty at Columbia in 1996. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative fiction and criticism, her research interests include literary and cultural theory, particularly theories of narrative, genre and gender, modernism and modernity; modern Japanese thought; history of reading, canon formation, and literary histories.

Her publications include Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity (Stanford, 1996) and its Japanese edition, Katarareta jiko: Nihon kindai no shishōsetsu gensetsu (Iwanami Shoten, 2000), the Korean translation of which was published in 2004; Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature (Stanford, 2000, author and co-editor); Sōzōsareta koten: kanon keisei, kokumin kokka, Nihon bungaku (Shin'yōsha, 1999, author and co-editor), the Korean translation of which was published in 2002. She is currently completing a book manuscript on gender and literary modernism in Japan, investigating the formation of modern literary and cultural fields from the late 19th-century to the postwar period and examining modernist reconstruction of Japanese literary and linguistic traditions. Suzuki teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on modern Japanese literature and criticism, gender and genre in Japanese literature, and Asian humanities: major texts of East Asia as well as the modern East Asian literary texts.

410 Kent
Phone:(212) 854-5034
Email:ts202@columbia.edu

Wendy Swartz Associate Professor

Wendy Swartz specializes in premodern Chinese poetry, especially Six Dynasties to Tang, traditional and modern literary theory and criticism. She received her B.A. (1995) from University of California, San Diego and Ph.D. (2003) from University of California, Los Angeles.  She is the author of Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900; Harvard University Asia Center, 2008), which examines how shifts in hermeneutical practices and cultural demands shaped the very different pictures of Tao Yuanming and the different ways of reading his works in traditional China. This study of the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself and of particular readings of his works sheds light on transformation of literature and culture in premodern China.  She is currently working on a book, whose working title is Poetry and Philosophy: Allusion and Citation in Six Dynasties (222-589 C.E.) China. This study will examine the intertwinement between philosophy and literature during the Six Dynasties (222-589 C.E.), which is of utmost significance to an understanding of either field, and of medieval literati culture in general. The “three mysterious” texts (Classic of Changes, Laozi, and Zhuangzi) and their commentaries, which formed the core of early medieval Chinese thought, are cited extensively by the greatest poets of the Six Dynasties, such as Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun, and Xi Kang. This work will focus on such cases of intertextuality in order to track the intersections between intellectual trends and poetic practices during this especially innovative period. Her other publications include: “Rewriting a Recluse: The Early Biographers’ Construction of Tao Yuanming,” CLEAR 26 (2004); “Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape and Farmstead Poems,” in How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, edited by Zong-qi Cai (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).

409 Kent
Phone:(212) 854-9784
Email:ws2103@columbia.edu

Tai Xiaoxi Lecturer in Chinese

Xiaoxi Tai received her B.A. in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, in 2004, and her M.A. in Adult and Continuing Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2007. She started her Chinese teaching career in 2004, and joined Columbia faculty in the fall of 2007. She is currently teaching Elementary and Intermediate Chinese.

512 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-6594
Email: xt2102@columbia.edu

Tan Qiuyu Lecturer in Chinese

Tan Qiuyu received her B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (2003) and M.A. in Applied Linguistics (2006) from Beijing Language and Culture University, China, and her M.A. in Chinese Linguistics (2008) from University of Wisconsin – Madison.  Her main interest of research is second language acquisition, especially the tonal acquisition of mandarin Chinese, the acquisition of Chinese syntax as well as the representation of learners’ psychological lexicon. She joined Columbia faculty in 2008 and her teaching included Introductory, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese. 

Gray Tuttle Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies

Gray Tuttle received his Ph.D. in Inner Asian Studies at Harvard University in 2002. He studies the history of twentieth century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet's relations with the China-based Manchu Qing Empire. The role of Tibetan Buddhism in these historical relations is central to all his research. In his Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (Columbia UP, 2005), he examines the failure of nationalism and race-based ideology to maintain the Tibetan territory of the former Qing empire as integral to the Chinese nation-state. Instead, he argues, a new sense of pan-Asian Buddhism was critical to Chinese efforts to hold onto Tibetan regions (one quarter of China's current territory). His current research project, "Amdo Tibet, Middle Ground between Lhasa and Beijing (1578-1865)," is a historical analysis of the economic and cultural relations between China and Tibet in the early modern periods (16th - 19th centuries) when the intellectual and economic centers of Tibet shifted to the east, to Amdo -- a Tibetan cultural region the size of France in northwestern China. Deploying Richard White's concept of the "Middle Ground" in the context of two mature civilizations -- Tibetan and Chinese -- encountering one another, this book will examine how this contact led to three dramatic areas of growth that defined early modern Tibet: 1) the advent of mass monastic education, 20 the bureaucratization of reincarnate lamas' charisma and 3) the development of modern conceptions of geography that reshaped the way Tibet was imagined.Other long term writing projects include editing The Rise of the Modern in Tibet and co-editing Sources of Tibetan Tradition for the series Introduction to Asian Civilizations, The Tibetan History Reader, and Wutaishan and Qing Culture. 

504 Kent
Phone:(212) 854-4096
Email:gwt2102@columbia.edu

Wang Xiaodan Lecturer in Chinese

Xiaodan Wang received her B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from Beijing Language and Culture University, China (2003), and her M.A. in Chinese Linguistics from Capital Normal University, China (2006). Her main research interest is second language acquisition and pedagogy, especially topics related to Chinese syntax and discourse analysis. She is a co-author of Study Abroad in Beijing, a textbook for intermediate Chinese and Business Chinese.

Xiaodan Wang joined Columbia faculty in 2007 and her teaching included Elementary Chinese and Intermediate Chinese. She has also been teaching for Columbia’s Summer Language Program in Beijing since 2007.

Wang Zhirong Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Zhirong Wang received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Language with a minor in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University.  She joined Columbia University in 1996 and has taught all levels of Chinese language courses as well as the History of Chinese Language course.  In the past six years, Zhirong Wang has served as supervisor of graduate teaching associates for the Chinese Language Program.  She has authored several publications on Chinese language including A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (co-author, Columbia University Press, 2003); An Elementary Chinese Reader (1 and 2), (sole author, Beijing University Press, 2005).  She is currently working on a workbook and a textbook for advanced Chinese language learners.

512 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-3594
Email: zw30@columbia.edu

Won Eunyoung Lecturer in Korean

Won Eunyoung received her B.A. in German Education and English from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, and her M.A. (2004) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University. She taught Korean at Michigan State from 2002 to 2004 and at Harvard University from 2004 to 2006. EunYoung Won joined Columbia faculty in the fall of 2006.

404 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5144
Email:ew2237@columbia.edu

Yan Ling Lecturer in Chinese

Ling Yan received her M.A in Applied Linguistics in Northwestern Polytechnical University (1996) and her Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Kansas (2005)). Ling Yan started teaching Chinese in 1999 and has taught Chinese at all levels. She joined the Columbia faculty in 2005. Her research interests include syntax, prosodic-syntax, and Chinese pedagogy. She has developed textbooks, audio and video teaching materials for elementary Chinese (Approaching China) and advanced Chinese (Readings in Modern Chinese). She is a co-author of 201 Mandarin Chinese Verbs (Barron’s).

512 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-3594
Email: ly2131@columbia.edu

Guobin Yang Associate Professor (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Barnard College)

Guobin Yang specializes in the study of social movements, media and communication, civic associations, and environmental politics in contemporary China (1949 – present). His books include The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009), Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (edited with Ching-Kwan Lee, 2007), and Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind (annotated English translation of Wenxin diaolong) (2 vols. Beijing, Library of Chinese Classics in English Translation, 2003).  His articles have appeared in many scholarly journals in sociology, Asian studies, and media studies. He has a Ph. D. in English Literature (with a specialty in Literary Translation) from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a second Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University.You can find his website at: http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~gyang/

321A Milbank
Phone:(212) 854-2125
Email:gy2112@columbia.edu

Yi Hyunkyu Lecturer in Korean

Hyunkyu Yi received his B.A. in history from Yonsei University (1982), Seoul, Korea, and received his M.A. in East Asian history from Graduate School of Yonsei University (1987). He taught Korean at Korean Language Institute in Yonsei University from 1988 to 1996. Hyunkyu Yi joined Columbia faculty in 1996 and has been teaching Intermediate and Fourth-year Korean. His publication includes Korean Language 1-Easy to Learn, co-authored with others, Korean Language Center in New York (Seoul, 2000) and forthcoming media instructional material includes Online Listening Comprehension in Korean (Columbia University).

404 Kent Hall
Phone:(212 )854-5144
Email: hy122@columbia.edu

Chun-fang Yu Sheng Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhism

Chun-fang Yu was born in China and educated in Taiwan. She graduated from Tunghai University in 1959 with a double major in English Literature and Chinese Philosophy. She came to the States for graduate study and received a M.A. degree in English from Smith College in 1961 and Ph.D. degree in Religion from Columbia University in 1973. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, from 1972 until 2004, serving the chair of the Religion Department since 2000. Her primary field of specialization is Chinese Buddhism and Chinese religions. She is interested in the impact of Buddhist thought and practice on Chinese society as well as the impact of Chinese religious traditons on the domestication of Buddhism in China. She is the author of The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Chu-hung and the Late Ming Synthesis (Columbia University Press, 1981), Kuan-yin, the Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Columbia University Press, 2001), and the co-editor of Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (Univ of California Press, 1992). She is completing a study of Buddhist nuns in contempory Taiwan, focusing on the roles they have played in the revival of Buddhism in Taiwan during the last three decades.

Madeleine Zelin Professor

Madeleine Zelin specializes in  modern Chinese history, and in particular economic and legal history. She received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1970 and her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1979. Her publications include The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth  Century Ch'ing China (1984) and Rainbow (1992) and co-editor and author of Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China (2003). Professor Zelin is currently completing a book entitled The Merchants of  Zigong which explores the role of the state and legal institutions in China’s industrial development and a book with Jonathan Ocko entitled Contract Law and  Civil Procedure in Qing and Republican China: A Text-Based  Approach. Her new research focuses on comparative legal institutions. Prof. Zelin is Director of the Columbia University National Resource Center.

tel:212.854.5027 fax:212.678.8629 407 Kent Hall, New York, NY 10027