Centre of Chinese Studies: Members at SOAS

Robert F Ash

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

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: 451a

Jing Bian

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Financial Regulation, International Economic Law, Chinese Law, Corporate Governance, Cross-border Mergers and Aquisitions

Email: jb72@soas.ac.uk

Hong Bo

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Firm investment decisions under uncertainty; capital market imperfections; corporate finance; corporate governance; financial economics; China.

Tel: 020 7898 4528
Email: hb22@soas.ac.uk
Room: 543
Office Hours: Monday 11-1pm

Chris Bramall

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Economic growth, income inequality, famine and agricultural development in modern China, the political economy of Maoism, The development of the contemporary Chinese empire

Tel: 0207 898 4616
Email: cb81@soas.ac.uk
Room: 275
Office Hours: Open door policy

Cosima Bruno

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies

Tel: 020 7898 4421
Email: cb65@soas.ac.uk
Room: 456
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00 and 14:00 - 15:00

Ernest Caldwell

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Traditional and Modern Chinese Legal Thought; Legal Historiography; Law and Language; Chinese Constitutional Law; Comparative/Interdisciplinary Methodologies

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4645
Email: ec24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 258
Office Hours: Thursday 2pm to 4pm

Wynn Chao

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4648
Email: wc@soas.ac.uk
Room: 374
Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00 - 15:00

Yan Cui

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Chinese language teaching, styles of modern Chinese literary language, Chinese rhetoric

Tel: 020 7898 4237
Email: yc2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:05-11.35 V323/Wed. 11:05-12:35 E36/382

Yueqin Dong

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Email: yd4@soas.ac.uk

Dafydd Fell

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Tel: 020 7898 4206
Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 201
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm and by appointment

Rossella Ferrari

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4047
Email: rf24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 399a
Office Hours: Term 2 Mondays 12:00 - 14:00

Bernhard Fuehrer

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4218
Email: bf3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 398
Office Hours: Please e-mail to make an appointment
On Sabbatical:2012-13

Wanli Gao

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Chinese language teaching

Tel: 020 7898 4234
Email: wg@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00 V322/Fridays 13:00-14:00 382

Enze Han

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Tel: 02078984364
Email: eh22@soas.ac.uk
Room: 251
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5pm

Rachel Harris

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4513
Email: rh@soas.ac.uk
Room: 513
On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13

Nathan W. Hill

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Email: nh36@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4407

Michel Hockx

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Tel: 020 7898 4222
Email: mh17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 394
Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:30-16:30/Wednesdays 15:30-16:30

Eunsuk Hong

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Foreign Direct Investment, Emerging-Market Multinationals, Applied spatial econometrics, Chinese management/economy

Tel: 0207 898 4564
Email: e.hong@soas.ac.uk
Room: 527
Office Hours: By appointment

Andrea Janku

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4636
Email: aj7@soas.ac.uk
Room: 310
Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-12pm

Jakob Klein

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4428
Email: jk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 564
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30-13:00

Yuka Kobayashi

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4736
Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4417
On Sabbatical:Terms 1 & 2, 2012-13

Tat Yan Kong

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory

Tel: 020 7898 4743
Email: yk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 206
Office Hours: Wednesday 2-4pm (Term 1)
On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2012-13

Lars Laamann

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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)

Tel: 020 7898 4634
Email: ll10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 323
Office Hours: Mondays - Fridays 10-11am (and by appointment)

George Lane

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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.

Tel: 020 7898 4285
Email: gl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 303
Office Hours: All Year - Fridays 1:30-3:30pm (during term time)

Kevin Latham

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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: 565
Office Hours: All Year - Tuesdays 2-4pm (during term time)

Andrew H-B Lo

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4213
Email: al3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 393
Office Hours: Mondays 13:00-14:00 / Fridays 11:00-12:00

Dic Lo

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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: Thursdays 1pm-3pm

Xiaoning Lu

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Chinese-language cinemas, film history and criticism, global socialist culture, and Chinese popular culture.

Tel: 020 7898 4670
Email: xl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 453
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 - 13;00

Shane McCausland

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4705
Email: sm80@soas.ac.uk
Room: B402
On Sabbatical:October 2012-May 2013

Lukas Nickel

History of Art and Archaeology of China and the Silk Road, Chinese culture of the Bronze Age and the Han to Tang period; early Buddhist art; art and technology in China, Chinese heritage, comparative art history

Tel: 020 7898 4454
Email: ln2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B407
Office Hours: Thursday 4-5 (during term time)

Ulrich Pagel

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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 338
Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 3-5pm

Antonello Palumbo

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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: 345
Office Hours: Term 2 - Wednesdays 2-4pm

Zhaoxia Pang

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Tel: 020 7898 4257
Email: zp1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 480
Office Hours: Mondays 16:00-17:00/Tuesdays 15:00-16:00

Stacey Pierson

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting; Museum Studies.

Tel: 020 7898 4441
Email: sp17@soas.ac.uk
Room: B308
Office Hours: Term 2 - Tuesdays 3:30-5pm

Tim Pringle

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Tel: 020 7898 4678
Email: tp21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 260a
Office Hours: Wednesday 12-2pm

Huanguang Qiu

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Song Lianyi

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy

Tel: 020 7898 4226
Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 397
Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Thursdays 11:00-12:00

Julia C Strauss

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology

Tel: 020 7898 4746
Email: js11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 207
On Sabbatical:Term 1, 2012-13

Lik Suen

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy

Tel: 020 7898 4264
Email: lx@soas.ac.uk
Room: 361
Office Hours: Mondays 12:30-13:30/Wednesdays 11:30-13:00

Laixiang Sun

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4821
Email: ls28@soas.ac.uk
Room: 529
On Sabbatical:On sabbatical leave 2012/13

Carol G. S. Tan

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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

Tel: 020 7898 4630
Email: ct9@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4415
Office Hours: Tuesday 14.30 - 16.30
On Sabbatical:Term 2 2012-13

Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅

Chair, Centre of Chinese Studies

Pre-modern Chinese literature, with emphasis on drama, fiction, and poetry in the later dynasties; Chinese literary history and historiography; court theatre and performance; cross-cultural interactions between China and other countries

Tel: 020 7898 4570
Email: tt26@soas.ac.uk
Room: 396
Office Hours: MON 15:00-16:00; FRI: 14:00-15:00

Damian Tobin

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

The reform of corporate governance practices in China’s state-owned enterprises with particular reference to the banking, oil and telecommunications sectors; the size of China’s state sector; pre-reform economic relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China; and global production chains.

Tel: 020 7898 4058
Email: dt29@soas.ac.uk
Room: 555
Office Hours: Friday 1.30 - 3.30pm

Wai Hing Tse

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Tel: 020 7898 4176
Email: wt1@soas.ac.uk

Sanzhu Zhu

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

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.

Tel: 020 7898 4667
Email: sz8@soas.ac.uk
Room: 240
Office Hours: Wednesday by apppointment, Thursday 1:30 to 2:30

Anthony Dicks

Professorial Research Associate

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

Renzo Cavalieri

Professorial Research Associate

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

Email: cavalieri@unive.it

Stefan Feuchtwang

Professorial Research Associate

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

Email: S.Feuchtwang@lse.ac.uk

Michael J E Palmer

Professorial Research Associate

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Civil Procedure; Chinese Law (traditional and modern); Conflict of Laws; Comparative Family Law; Consumer Protection

Tel: 020 7898 4671
Email: mp@soas.ac.uk
Room: 222

R.G. Tiedemann

Professorial Research Associate

History of the Boxer War in China and its consequences, 1900-1902

Xiangqun Chang

Research Associate

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