Buyun Chi
Home University: Department of History, Renmim University, China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘The relationship between political parties and the state of modern China’
Contact: bchi@illinois.edu
Qiang Fu
Home University: Department of Economics, Shandong University, China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘Study on China’s economic growth under the hybrid market structure’
Contact: qiangf@illinois.edu
Ran Gao
Home University: Department of Economics, Peking University, China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘Financial frictions, housing price dynamics and macroeconomic fluctuations in China’
Contact: rangao@illinois.edu
Min He
Home University: Department of Foreign Language, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘Classic Chinese fictions in the perspective of “the other”: On the study of Chinese traditional fictions by American sinologists’
Contact: minhe@illinois.edu
Yeun Sook Kim
Home University: Department of Political Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘Affective rationality: Analyzing on the ambivalent voters’
Contact: yeunsk@illinois.edu
Jung Sook Sohn
Home University: Department of History, Ewha Womans University, South Korea.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘A study of American view of Korean modern history: Analysis of American history textbook’
Contact: jsoh@illinois.edu
Ran Wu
Home University: Department of Music, Sichuan Normal University, China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘Pedagogy of impromptu piano accompaniment’
Contact: ranwu@illinois.edu
Huanying Zhang
Home University: Department of Public Management, Southwest University, China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘A comparative study on the behavior norms of local governments: Exemplified by the labor transfer’
Contact: huangz@illinois.edu
Jiuqing Zhang
Home University: Department of Chinese Culture, Zhongnan University, China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘A study of translation of The Book of Songs’
Contact: zjq070621@yeah.net
Chiyoung Ahn
Dr. Ahn is Associate Professor in the department of the Chinese Language and Cultural Studies at Incheon National University. His major research topics are the power transition of the CCP at the early reform era and CCP history. During his stay at the University of Illinois, he is working on: the causes and characteristics of the transition from Hua Gufeng Regime to Deng Xiaoping Regime; the Yan’an Regime’s contradictions and Gao Gang affair; the Sino-Soviet relations and the breakout of the Korean War.
Contact: chiahn@illinois.edu
Hua Li
Dr. Li is Associate Professor in the School of Marxism at Wuhan University. Dr. Li’s academic field is the history of Chinese Communist Party and it construction. His specific field of research is the CCP and the Chinese politics. He plans to deepen these researches with the following projects during his stay at the University of Illinois: “A Comparative Study of Political Parties and Society between China and Western Nations” and “The Research on CCP in America.”
Contact: huali76@illinois.edu
Zhaohui Liu
Dr. Liu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Zhejiang University. He also is the executive director of the Institute of Anthropology at Zhejiang University. His research interests focus on cultural heritage, migration, social assessment, and rural community development. During his stay at the University of Illinois, he is working on the research project, “Resettlement, Cultural Conversation, and Cultural Rights in Development Projects.”
Contact: zhaol@illinois.edu
Xiaohong Zhang
Dr. Xiaohong Zhang is assistant professor at South China Normal University. Dr. Zhang earned her Ph.D from Renmin University in 2010. Her research interests include social capital, law and society, criminology and social service evaluation. Dr. Zhang currently works on a project addressing crimes against women and dispute resolution in rural areas.
Contact: xiaohng1@illinois.edu
Mei Li
Dr. Li is an Associate Professor in the College of Humanities and Development at China Agricultural University. Her research interests are on immigration and labor mobility from an interdisciplinary perspective of sociology and anthropology. She will pursue the following projects during the year of VASP: “Immigration and Its Impact on Community Development” On Acquiring Knowledge and Adaptability to Social Surroundings of Undergraduate Students” and “The Construction of Migrants’ Subjectivity from the Perspective of Linguistic Anthropology.”
Contact: meili@illinois.edu
Yongzhi Yao
Dr. Yao is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). His research interests include Contemporary Chinese political system, Modern Chinese historical figures, History of political thoughts, Comparative politics of China and America. During the year as a visiting scholar at CEAPS of UIUC, He will pursue the following projects: “The comparative study of cultural and political thoughts between China and America”.
Contact: yongzhi1@illinois.edu
Xiaoping Ding
Xiaoping Ding is chief officer at Research Office of Yinchuan Government in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Her research interests are in migration and poverty alleviation from an interdisciplinary perspective of sociology and politics. She will pursue the following projects during the year of VASP: “How to explore and Resolve the Self-initiated Migration among Ethnic Minorities to Foster Social Harmony and National Integration.
Contact: xding@illinois.edu
Lei Chen
Dr. Chen teaches Finance at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. He is interested in finance management, risk investment and return, risk attribution analysis, and model-directed empirical investigation into the performance of fund managers.
Contact: lchn@illinois.edu
Yue Feng
Dr. Feng is Lecturer of Finance at Mudanjiang Normal University, China. She got her Ph.D. in Finance at Jilin University. Her research focuses on finance and economic development.
Contact: yuefeng@illinois.edu
Qinghong Han
Ms. Han is Lecturer and Head of the Career Guidance Department at Hainan University, China. Her research interest area is educational administration innovation in higher education from the perspective of cultivating innovative talents.
Contact: qhan@illinois.edu
Yi Huang
Ms. Huang is Lecturer of International Economics and Trade at Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College, China. Her major research interests are international economics and trade, the Chinese economy, and economic development.
Contact: yhua@illinois.edu
Nam Ju Lee
Dr. Lee is Professor of Chinese Studies at Sungkonghoe University, Korea. He is interested in the controversy over the history of the Mao era in China, the issue of New Democracy, and the transition to socialism.
Contact: namjulee@illinois.edu
Zhuojie Li
Ms. Li is Lecturer in Business Management at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China. Her research focuses on Industrial Development of Urban Areas during New-Type Urbanization in China.
Contact: zhuojiel@illinois.edu
Xiaoshan Lin
Dr. Lin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang Normal University, China. He will be doing research on family changes and consumptive stratification in urban China.
Contact: xln@illinois.edu
Hanjin Liu
Dr. Liu is Associate Professor at the School of Marketing and Logistics at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His interests include trends in global business. He is interested in collaborating with other scholars and learning from marketing experiences from the West.
Contact: hanjin@illinois.edu
Zhigang Liu
Dr. Liu is Postdoctoral Researcher in Business Management at Tsinghua University, China and Associate Professor at School of Business at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he has also served as department head. While at the University of Illinois, he will be conducting a comparative study of culture industry development in the US and China.
Contact: zhigangl@illinois.edu
Shangtian Sheng
Ms. Sheng is Lecturer of International Trade Law at Guizhou University, China. Her research area is China’s Education Ministry and the Political and Legislative Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Contact: ssh@illinois.edu
Hakyoung Shin
Dr. Shin is Associate Professor of Japanese Popular Culture in the Division of Japanese Studies at Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea. He obtained his Ph. D in Tsukuba University, Japan. His research interests include postwar American films and national identity and comparative film studies in the U.S. and Japan.
Contact: haks@illinois.edu
Hong Tao
Dr. Tao is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Southwest University, China. Her research interests are sociology, cultural anthropology, Chinese news and communication, and foreign news communication.
Contact: taohong@illinois.edu
Meng Wang
Dr. Wang is Associate Professor at the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies at Northwest University, China. His research areas are the strategic importance of the Middle East, the fragmentation of Middle Eastern society, and risky development prospects in the Middle East.
Contact: mngwng@illinois.edu
Zuojun Wang
Dr. Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Southwest University, China. He also currently serves as Deputy Director of the Department of Public Administration. His research interests focus on strategic management, organizational theory, public policy, low-carbon economies and regional development.
Contact: zwng@illinois.edu
Dachun Yang
Dr. Yang is Associate Professor at the School of Law and Politics, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, China. His research interests include modern legal history, specifically the modern history of China’s fiscal and taxation law.
Contact: dyng@illinois.edu
Yang Yang
Dr. Yang is Associate Professor of International Politics at Southwest University, China. His research focuses on bilateral and multilateral relations among China, America, and Japan that impact security cooperation in East Asia.
Contact: yyz@illinois.edu
Rui Yu
Dr. Yu is Assistant Professor of English at East China Normal University, China. She is interested in Chinese literature from the American perspective. She will focus on Chinese fiction of the Ming and Qing dynasties, both in the original and in English translation.
Contact: ruiyu@illinois.edu
Weiwei Zhang
Ms. Zhang teaches English as a second Language in Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China. She is doing research on Chinese and American culture, especially aesthetic appreciation of ceramic culture.
Contact: weiwei2@illinois.edu
He Zu
Ms. Zu is Lecturer at Zhongguancun Institute, China. Her research interests are teaching English as a second language to adults, and strategies in learning English as a second/foreign language.
Contact: hzu@illinois.edu
Xiaoting Xian
Home University: School of Humanities, Zhejiang University, China.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘Tang poetry manuscripts of Tang and the Five Dynasties’
Contact: xian@illinois.edu
Dosik Moon
Home University: Department of English, Hanyang Cyber University, South Korea.
Research Project in UIUC: ‘Online L2 education for Korean students’
Contact: dmoon1@illinois.edu
