Professor Robert F Ash China’s economic development in the 20th and 21st centuries; evolution of ‘Greater China’; economic development of Taiwan and cross-Strait economic relations
Dr Hanne-Ruth Thompson Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language
Professor Mark Hobart South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali: cultural and media studies; philosophical issues and eurocentrism in the human sciences; media and performance.
Dr David W Hughes Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music