SOAS China Institute Academic Staff

Jakob Klein

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

China (South); anthropology of food; consumption; regional cuisines; local speciality foods; urban society and the urban/rural divide; food commodity chains; borderlands; food and environment; food safety and risk; meat-eating and vegetarianism; ethnicity and local identities; socialist and postsocialist societies.

Tel: 020 7898 4428
Email: jk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 564
Academic Support Hours: Term 3 - By appointment only
On Sabbatical:Term 1

Kevin Latham

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4423
Email: kl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 565
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 11.30-13.00

Tim Pringle

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

East Asia, labour relations in China and Vietnam, trade union reform in China and Vietnam, labour and social movements in China, labour migration in China.

Tel: 020 7898 4678
Email: tp21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 260a
Academic Support Hours: By appointment, please email

Frauke Urban

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Research: Climate change and development, climate change mitigation, low carbon development and energy policy, with a regional focus on Asia.

Tel: 0203 0738329
Email: fu1@soas.ac.uk
Room: LIDC 203

Robert F Ash

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Chris Bramall

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4616
Email: cb81@soas.ac.uk
Room: 228
Academic Support Hours: By Appointment Only

Dic Lo

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4532
Email: dl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 271
Academic Support Hours: Mondays: 11:00 to 13:00 (Term 2)

Ulrich Volz

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4721
Email: uv1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 285
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Hong Bo

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 11 - 12

Yueqin Dong

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Email: yd4@soas.ac.uk

Eunsuk Hong

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: 0207 898 4564
Email: e.hong@soas.ac.uk
Room: 527
Academic Support Hours: By Appointment

Huanguang Qiu

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Gerhard Kling

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Mergers & Acquisitions, International Business, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Mathematical & Statistical Modelling

Tel: 020 7898 4821
Email: gk17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 529
Academic Support Hours: Monday 10 - 12

Pasquale Scaramozzino

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Macroeconomics; fiscal policy; applied econometrics

Tel: 020 7898 4055
Email: ps6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 528
Academic Support Hours: Monday 3 - 5 (or by email appointment)

Gary Schwarz

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Public management, leadership, performance, innovation, strategy

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4091
Email: gary.schwarz@soas.ac.uk
Room: 544
Academic Support Hours: Monday 4 - 6

Damian Tobin

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Hong Kong's financial system; Renminbi internationalisation and banking reform; Economic modernisation and the State; China's management reforms, especially in the oil sector

Tel: 020 7898 4058
Email: dt29@soas.ac.uk
Room: 555
On Sabbatical:2017/18

Andrea Janku

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4636
Email: aj7@soas.ac.uk
Room: 316
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 10-12am and by appointment

Lars Laamann

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10am-12pm

George Lane

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays &Thursdays 1.30-2.30pm or by appointment

Shane McCausland

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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: B304
Academic Support Hours: Term 2: Thursdays, 3-4 p.m; or by appointment

Stacey Pierson

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: 020 7898 4441
Email: sp17@soas.ac.uk
Room: B308
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 1-2.30pm

Louise Tythacott

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Chinese and Buddhist art in museums; history of Yuanmingyuan (or ‘Summer Palace’) collections; museology; colonialism and material culture; post-colonial critiques of museum representations; history and theory of collecting; art and anthropology.

Tel: 020 7898 4159
Email: lt15@soas.ac.uk
Room: B320
Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave until term 2 2018-2019

Yan Cui

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4237
Email: yc2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 11.10am-12.10pm/Fridays 11.05am-12.05pm

Wanli Gao

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Chinese language teaching

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4234
Email: wg@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 12-1 pm / Thursday 11 - 12 pm

Zhaoxia Pang

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Tel: 020 7898 4257
Email: zp1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 480
Academic Support Hours: Monday 16:00-17:00 / Thursday 11:00-12:00

Song Lianyi

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy

Tel: 020 7898 4226
Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 367
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 1-2pm / Thursday 1-2pm

Lik Suen

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4264
Email: lx@soas.ac.uk
Room: 361
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 12-1pm & Wednesdays 11:30am-1pm

Ernest Caldwell

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Public Law in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia; Environmental Constitutionalism; History of Environmental Law; Biodiversity and Law; Natural Resources and Law; Wildlife Law and Policy; Wildlife Trafficking

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4645
Email: ec24@soas.ac.uk
Room: S327
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00

Carol G. S. Tan

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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: +44 (0)207 898 4630
Email: ct9@soas.ac.uk
Room: S131
Academic Support Hours: by prior appointment

Grace (Yu) Mou

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Criminal law; criminology; comparative criminal justice; criminal evidence; Chinese law; Chinese criminal justice; Asian legal systems; socio-legal studies.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4277
Email: ym19@soas.ac.uk
Room: S227
Academic Support Hours: Monday 11:30 - 12:30 & Friday 11:30 - 12:30

Sanzhu Zhu

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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: +44 (0)20 7898 4667
Email: sz8@soas.ac.uk
Room: S328
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 11:00 - 13:00

Dongning Feng

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4298
Email: df14@soas.ac.uk
Room: 406
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 10:30-12:30

Nathan W. Hill

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; historical, descriptive and corpus linguistics, in particular with reference to Tibetan or other Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan languages; Chinese minorities; Mongolian

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4512
Email: nh36@soas.ac.uk
Room: 377
Academic Support Hours: Not teaching in 2017/18

Justin Watkins

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Burmese languages and Burmese linguistics; language policy in Burma; experimental and acoustic phonetics; computer lexicography; minority languages of South East Asia; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto Burman languages; tone languages. Sign languages in Burma and South East Asia.

Tel: 020 7898 4254
Email: jw2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 462
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 11-1. Email for an appointment.

Cosima Bruno

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies; Chinese language art; Sinophone literatures

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4421
Email: cb65@soas.ac.uk
Room: 456
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 2-3pm

Rossella Ferrari

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Chinese-language theatres; Sinophone performance cultures, trans-Asian performance networks, Chinese-language cinemas, transnational Asian cultures, intercultural theatre, theories and practices of the avant-garde.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4047
Email: rf24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 399a
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 111am-12noon (book online, see biography)

Bernhard Fuehrer

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4218
Email: bf3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 398
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 12-1pm

Andrew H-B Lo

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Email: al3@soas.ac.uk

Xiaoning Lu

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4670
Email: xl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 453
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 3-5pm

Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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: +44(0)20 7898 4570
Email: tt26@soas.ac.uk
Room: 396
On Sabbatical:2018-2019 (all year)

Guangtian Ha

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Tel: 020 7898 4399
Email: hg8@soas.ac.uk
Room: T402
Academic Support Hours: By Email Appointment

Rachel Harris

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 11-1

Hwee-San Tan

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Ethnomusicology, Buddhist music in China, Taiwan, diaspora studies, intangible cultural heritage preservation, music in Singapore and Malaysia.

Tel: 07818 430 371
Email: ht5@soas.ac.uk

Dafydd Fell

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Tel: 020 7898 4206
Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 209
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 2- 4

Bhavna Davé

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

Kazakhstan: politics of language, ethnicity and nationalism in post-Soviet countries

Tel: 020 7898 4734
Email: bd4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 224
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 3-5pm

Yuka Kobayashi

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4736
Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4425
Academic Support Hours: Term 1 & 2: Tuesdays 2-4pm: Term 3 by appointment

Tat Yan Kong

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4743
Email: yk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 206
Academic Support Hours: Term 2: Thursdays 2.30 to 4.30pm

Julia C Strauss

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology; theatrical and performative dimensions of politics, interpretive methods, China-Africa, China-Latin America

Tel: 020 7898 4746
Email: js11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 207
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm, Wednesdays 1-2pm
On Sabbatical:2018/19

Steve Tsang

Director, SOAS China Institute

Twentieth-century Chinese history; Chinese foreign policy; China's 'peaceful rise' strategy; China's rising military might; China's soft power; China-UK relations; China-EU relations; China-US relations; China-Taiwan relations; China-Asia relations; Chinese politics; nature of political system in China; the Chinese Communist Party and democracy; human rights in China; Taiwan politics; Taiwan's external relations; Taiwan's democratisation; Taiwan's security; US-Taiwan relations; Hong Kong politics; Hong Kong's relations with mainland China; colonial history of Hong Kong.

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4222
Email: steve.tsang@soas.ac.uk
Room: M108

Jieyu Liu

Deputy Director, SOAS China Institute

Women and gender in China; gender and work; sexuality and organizations; migration; gender and intergenerational relations; ageing and family transitions; unemployment; social policy and welfare reforms in China.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4899
Email: jl92@soas.ac.uk
Room: M109
Academic Support Hours: On research leave 2016-2020

T H Barrett

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Email: tb2@soas.ac.uk

Ulrich Pagel

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4782
Email: up1@soas.ac.uk
Room: Room 343
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 3:00-5:00 p.m

Antonello Palumbo

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

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: +44 (0)20 7898 4768
Email: ap47@soas.ac.uk
Room: 345
Academic Support Hours: Fridays 3-5pm - On research leave Term 1, 2018-19

Di Wu

Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS China Institute

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4614
Email: dw21@soas.ac.uk
Room: M110
Academic Support Hours: Thursday 2-4pm

Jeanne-Marie Gescher

Senior Fellow, SOAS China Insititute

Email: jeannemarie.gescher@soas.ac.uk

Yung-Chen Yuan

Post-doctoral Research Associate, SOAS China Institute

She received her PhD in Sociology from University of Bristol. Her research interests in migration, nationalism, ethnicity, and national and ethnical identity. Her research is specifically on how the ordinary people reproduce and practice identity in their everyday lives.

Email: yy9@soas.ac.uk

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

R.G. Tiedemann

Professorial Research Associate

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

Email: rt25@soas.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