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Centre of Chinese Studies

SOAS Centre Members

Chair of Centre

Dr Dic Lo

Chair of Publications Committee of CCI

Professor Michael Palmer

Centres and Programmes Office:
Office Manager

Jane Savory

Executive Officer

Rahima Begum

Academic Staff

Robert F Ash
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Bob Ash

China’s economic development in the 20th and 21st centuries (especially agricultural and rural change, demographic and employment issues, consumption and living standards); evolution of ‘Greater China’; economic development of Taiwan and cross-Strait economic relations

  • Tel: 020 7898 4525
  • Email: ra2@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 267

  • Office Hours: By appointment
T H Barrett
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
T H Barrett

History of Chinese religion, notably Taoism and Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese history, especially the Tang period

  • Tel: 020 7898 4765
  • Email: tb2@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 330A

  • On Sabbatical:2009/10
Hong Bo
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Hong Bo
  • Tel: 020 7898 4528
  • Email: hb22@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 529

  • Office Hours: Monday 1-3pm
Wynn Chao
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Wynn Chao

Formal and comparative syntax; semantics; the syntax-semantics interface; language universals and typology; psycholinguistics; Chinese; Romance languages

Cosima Bruno
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Cosima Bruno

Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies

Cui Yan
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Chinese language teaching

Frank Dikötter
Frank Dikötter

Social and cultural history of modern China

Dafydd Fell
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Dafydd Fell

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

  • Tel: 020 7898 4206
  • Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 204

  • Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm and by appointment
Rossella Ferrari
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Rosella Ferrari

Contemporary Chinese drama and film; theory and practice of the avant-garde; transnational Chinese culture

Bernhard Fuehrer
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Bernhard Fuehrer

Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; reception of the canon with specific reference to the Analects

Gao Wan Li
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Chinese language teaching

Rachel Harris
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Rachel Harris

Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central Asia, especially Uyghur; recorded music; music and ritual, music, identity and politics

Nathan Hill
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Nathan Hill

Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; Central Asian languages, in particular Mongolian; Chinese minorities

Michel Hockx
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Modern Chinese literature and language; Chinese writers and writings from the late imperial and republican periods, with emphasis on modern poetry and on the sociology of modern Chinese literature

Dr Mark W H Hsiao
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette
  • Tel: 020 7898 4056
  • Email: mh88@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 517

  • Office Hours: Monday 12.30-1.30pm and Thursday 2-3pm
Andrea Janku
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Andrea Janku

China, Social and Cultural History; The Early Press and the History of Communication; Environmental History

Jakob Klein
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Jakob Klein

China (South); anthropology of food and eating, urban social relations

  • Tel: 020 7898 4428
  • Email: jk2@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 539

  • Office Hours: Fridays, 9-10am
Yuka Kobayashi
Member
Yuka Kobayashi

Human Rights, WTO, Environment, with reference to China and East Asia

  • Tel: 020 7898 4736
  • Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 4417

  • Office Hours: Thurs. 2 - 4
Lars Laamann
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Lars Laamann

Popular religions in early modern China (16th-20th cc); Christianity in china (18th-20th cc); Opium and other narcotics (18th-20th cc); Manchu history (16th-20th cc)

George Lane
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
George Lane

Current research concerns the presence of Persians in Yuan (Mongol) China. Teaching concentrates on Mediaeval Persia. Involved in IFCELS with the Lord Chancellor's programme for Chinese Lawyers since the early 90s as well as pre-sessionals and ELAS.

Kevin Latham
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Kevin Latham

China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance

  • Tel: 020 7898 4423
  • Email: kl1@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 540

  • Office Hours: Sabbatical term 1 (2009-10)
Lik Suen
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy

Andrew H-B Lo
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Chinese language (Cantonese and Mandarin); fiction and prose from the Ming-Qing periods; cultural activities of Ming and Qing scholars, especially games

Dic Lo
Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies
Dic Lo

China and globalisation; industrialisation; Soviet-type economic system and transformation; East Asian economic institutions and development; comparative political economy. China.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4532
  • Email: dl1@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 271

  • Office Hours: Mondays 11am - 12pm & 2.00 - 3.30pm
Mary Mazzilli
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Modern and contemporary Chinese Drama (with particular expertise on Gao Xingjian); Comparative Literature; Gender studies; Literary Theory

Shane McCausland
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Shane McCausland

Pictorial arts of China - especially painting and calligraphy; East Asian narrative art; canons, collecting and connoisseurship; Chinese art and modernity

Lukas Nickel
Staff Silhouette

Archaeology of the Qin and Han periods; early Buddhist art; traditional architecture of China and Japan, ancient Chinese bronzes and their production method.

Ulrich Pagel
Ulrich Pagel

History of Buddhism in Tibet, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Kanjur Studies, Vinaya, Religions of Central Asia, Tibetan, Sanskrit. 

  • Tel: 020 7898 4782
  • Email: up1@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: Room 332

  • Office Hours: Wed, 13.00h to 15.00h
Antonello Palumbo
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Ideological history of pre-modern China; Chinese religions, notably Taoism and Buddhism; history of the Buddhist canon in China; Manichaeism and Iranian influences in medieval China; Chinese cultural relations with Central Asia

  • Tel: 020 7898 4768
  • Email: ap47@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 337

  • Office Hours: Monday, 10-12
Zhaoxia Pang
Zhaoxia Pang
Stacey Pierson
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting; history of art history

Sue Swee Chin Small
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette
Song Lianyi
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy

Julia C Strauss
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Julia Strauss

State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology

  • Tel: 020 7898 4746
  • Email: js11@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 205

  • Office Hours: Mon 3:15 - 4:30 / Tues 1:15 - 2:30
Laixiang Sun
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Laixiang Sun

Corporate finance and governance, comparative economics, integrated modelling, business management and Chinese economy

  • Tel: 020 7898 4821
  • Email: ls28@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 528

  • Office Hours: Monday 4-5.30pm
Carol G. S. Tan
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law

Tian Yuan Tan
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette

Pre-modern Chinese literature, with emphasis on drama, songs, and fiction in the later dynasties; Chinese literary history and historiography; court theatre and performance; local literary communities and traditions

  • Tel: 020 7898 4570
  • Email: tt26@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 396

  • On Sabbatical:2009-2010
Damian Tobin
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Damian Tobin

Chinese business and management.

Wang Tao
Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies
Wang Tao

Archaeology in China; palaeography; early Chinese religion and language

George Zhang
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Staff Silhouette
Sanzhu Zhu
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Sanzhu Zhu

Chinese law; comparative commercial and corporate law with reference to China; legal aspects of Chinese financial and futures markets; civil procedure and dispute resolution in China, particularly securities disputes.

External Members

Renzo Cavalieri
Professorial Research Associate
Staff Silhouette

Chinese contemporary law, Chinese foreign trade and investment law, East Asian legal history

Xiangqun Chang
Research Associate
Xiangqun Chang

Contemporary China Studies; Chinese women and gender studies; personal, institutional and social relationships; reciprocity and social networks; social creativity; social support and welfare; local identity and culture; village autonomy; rural development; global civil society; fieldwork methodology; Marxist sociology

Anthony Dicks
Professorial Research Associate
Staff Silhouette

QC Laws of the People’s Republic of China; traditional Chinese law, international law; commercial law; legal history; laws of Hong Kong

Dr Wenjun Du
Visiting Scholar
Staff Silhouette

The role of the public sector in China's economic transformation

Jonathan Fenby
Research Associate
Staff Silhouette

History of modern China: end of the 19th century up to the present day.

Stefan Feuchtwang
Professorial Research Associate
Staff Silhouette

Ritual and religion in China; transmission of the Great Leap famine; making place and the urbanisation of villages

John Gittings
Research Associate
John Gittings

Comparative study of the perception of peace and war in ancient China and Greece

Michael J E Palmer
Professorial Research Associate
Michael Palmer

Dispute resolution and civil procedure; Chinese law (traditional and modern); conflict of laws; comparative family law

Ian Seckington
Research Associate
Staff Silhouette

 

Frances Wood
Research Associate
Staff Silhouette

Dunhuang studies, Chinese export paintings, Chinese domestic architecture, Chinese history, Chinese bibliography.

Xiaoyong Xiao
Visiting Scholar
Staff Silhouette

Chinese archaeology of the periods from the 3rd century BC to 10th century AD, focused upon Xinyiang area. Central Asian archaeology and Eurasian cultural exchange studies