Information on Faculty and East Asian Collection Librarians

History

• Joseph W. Esherick
  Position: Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Endowed Chair of Chinese Studies.
  Education: Ph.D. in Modern Asian History -- University of California, Berkeley
  Selected Publications:
  • The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987) * Won the John K. Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association; and the Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.
  • Reform and Revolution in China: 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).
  • Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950, ed. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000). *With contributions from UCSD graduate students and former graduate students.
  • Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance, ed. with Mary Backus Rankin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
  • Chinese Archives: An Introductory Guide, with Ye Wa (Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, 1996).
  • Lost Chance in China: The World War II Despatches of John S. Service, ed. (New York: Random House, 1979).

  Contact: jesherick@ucsd.edu

• Paul G. Pickowicz
  Position: Professor, History Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Chinese History -- University of Wisconsin.
  Selected Publications:
  • Chinese Village, Socialist State, with Edward Friedman and Mark Selden (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991) * Won the Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.
  • New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Politics, and Identities, ed. with Nick Browne, Vivian Sobchack, and Esther Yau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  • Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the Peoples' Republic, ed. with Perry Link and Richard Madsen (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989).
  • Marxist Literary Thought in China: The Influence of Ch'u Ch'iu-pai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981).
  • Marxist Literary Thought and China: A Conceptual Framework (Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, 1980).

  Contact: ppickowicz@ucsd.edu

• Suzanne Cahill
  Position: Adjunct Associate Professor, History Department
  Education: Ph.D. in History -- University of California/Berkeley
  Selected Publications:
  
  • Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993).
  • "Pien Tung-hsuan: A Taoist Woman Saint of the T'ang Dynasty (618-907)", in Women Saints in World Religions, ed. by Arvind Sharma (SUNY Press, 2000).
  • "Our Women Are Acting Like Foreigners' Wives!: Western Influence on Tang Dynasty Women's Fashion", in China Chic: East Meets West, ed. by Valerie Steele and John S. Major (Yale University Press, 1999).
  • "The Goddess, the Emperor, and the Adept: The Queen Mother of the West as Bestower of Legitimacy and Immortality", in Goddesses Who Rule, ed. by Elisabeth Benard and Beverly Moon (Oxford University Press, 2000).
  • "Smell Good and Get a Job: How Daoist Women Saints Were Verified and Legitimatized during the Tang Dynasty (618-907)", in Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition, ed. by Sherry J. Mou (St. Martin's Press, 1999).
  • "Body and Transformation" (in Japanese), in Dokyo no Rekishi to Bunka (Daoist History and Culture), edited by Yamada and Tanaka (Tokyo, 1998).

  Contact: secjbm34@aol.com

• Marta Hanson
  Position: Assistant Professor, History Department
  Education: Ph.D. in History & Sociology of Science -- University of Pennsylvania
  Selected Publications:
  
  • "Empires of Hygiene," a special issue of Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 6.3 (1998), co-edited with Judith Farquhar
  • "Robust Northerners and Delicate Southerners: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of a Southern Medical Tradition," in Positions 6.3 (1998)

  Contact: mehanson@ucsd.edu

Related Fields

• Joseph Chen
  Position: Professor, Physics Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Physics -- Notre Dame University
  Selected Publications:
  • Early Chinese Work in Natural Science: A Re-examination of the Physics of Motion, Acoustics, Astronomy and Scientific Thoughts (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1996).
  • "On the Dating of the Oldest Extant Illustration of a Chinese Abacus"
  • "A Comparative Study of Early Chinese and Greek Work on the Concept of Limit"
  • "Early Chinese Work on the Physics of Motion"

  Contact: jcychen@ucsd.edu

• Mathew Chen
  Position: Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics -- University of California/Berkeley
  Selected Publications:
  • Tone Sandhi (forthcoming)
  • "What Must Phonolgy Know About Syntax?", in The Phonolgy-Syntax Connection (Chicago: University of chicago Press, 1990).
  • "Tone, Rule, Typology", in The Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistic Society Meeting Special Session, no. 185 (1993).
  • "Competing Sound Changes: Evidence From Kam-Tai, Miao-Yao and Taibeto-Burman", in The Journal of Chinese Linguistics, no. 20 (1992).
  • "The Chameleon [-r] Nin Yanggu: Morphological in Fixation or Phonological Epenthesis?", in The Journal of East Asian Linguistics, no. 3 (1990).

  Contact: chen@ling.ucsd.edu

• Nancy Guy
  Position: Assistant Professor, Music Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology -- University of Pittsburgh
  Selected Publications:
  • "Republic of China National Anthem in Taiwan: One Anthem, One Performance, Multiple Realities," Ethnomusicology 46.1 (Winter 2002):96-119.
  • forthcoming: "Trafficking in Taiwan Aboriginal Voices," in Sjoerd R. Jaarsma, ed. Handle with Care: Engagement and Responsibility in the Return of Field Materials (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).
  • "How does 'Made in Taiwan' Sound?: Popular Music and Strategizing the Sounds of a Multicultural Nation," Perfect Beat 5.3 (July 2001):1-17.
  • "Performing Taiwan: Music, Dance, and Spectacle in the Celebration of President Chen Shui-bian's Inauguration," ACMR Reports 13 (2000):1-32.
  • "Governing the Arts, Governing the State: Peking Opera and Political Authority in Taiwan," Ethnomusicology 43.3 (1999):508-526.
  • "Writing about Chinese Opera (Xiqu) in English: One Hundred Flowers Bloom, One Hundred Terms Contend," ACMR Reports 11 (1998): 89-94.
  • "Peking Opera as 'National Opera" in Taiwan: What's in a Name," ACMR Reports 11 (1998 [1995]):67-87.

  Contact: nguy@ucsd.edu

• Germaine Hoston
  Position: Professor, Political Science Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Political Science -- Harvard University
  Selected Publications:
  • The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
  • Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
  • "The State, Modernity, and the Fate of Liberalism in Prewar Japan", Journal of Asian Studies, 51.2 (1992).
  • "A 'Theology' of Liberation? Socialist Revolution and Spiritual Regeneration in Chinese and Japanese Marxism," in Ideas Across Cultures: Essays on Chinese Thought in Honor of Benjamin I. Schwartz, ed. Paul Cohen and Merle Goldman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).

  Contact: ghoston@ucsd.edu

• David Jordan
  Position: Professor, Anthropology Department; Provost, East Warren College
  Education: Ph.D. in Anthropology -- Chicago University
  Selected Publications:
  • The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Sectarianism in Taiwan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
  • "Folk Filial Piety in Taiwan: The Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars," in The Psycho-Cultural Dynamics of the Confucian Family: Past and Present, ed. Walter Slote. (Seoul: International Cultural Society of Korea, 1986).
  • "Sworn Brothers: A Study in Chinese Ritual Kinship," in The Chinese Family and Its Ritual Behavior, eds. Hsieh Jin-chang and Chuang Ying-chang (Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, 1985).
  • Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: The Folk Religions of a Taiwanese Village (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972).

  Contact: dkjordan@ucsd.edu
  Web site: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/
  

• Richard Madsen
  Position: Professor, Sociology Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Sociology -- Harvard University
  Selected Publications

  • China and the American Liberal Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
  • Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the Peoples' Republic, ed. with Perry Link and Paul Pickowicz (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989).
  • Morality and Power in a Chinese Village (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
  • Chen Village: The History of a Peasant Community in Mao's China, with Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).

  Contact: rmadsen@weber.ucsd.edu

• Barry Naughton
  Position: Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs
  Education: Ph.D. in Economics -- Yale University
  Selected Publications:

  • Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
  • "How to Reform a Planned Economy: Lessons From China," with John McMillan, in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 8.1 (Spring 1992).
  • "Implications of the State Monopoly over Industry and its Relaxation," in Modern China 18.1 (January 1992).
  • "The Third Front: Defense Industrialization in the Chinese Interior," China Quarterly 115 (1988).

  Contact: bnaughton@ucsd.edu

• Susan Shirk
  Position: Professor, IR/PS and Political Science Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Political Science -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Selected Publications:
  • The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
  • How China Opened Its Door: Foreign Trade and Investment Reform in the PRC. (Washington, DC.: Brookings Institution, 1994).
  • Power and Prosperity: Asia-Pacific Economic and Security Relations, ed. with Christopher Twomey (New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Publishers, 1996).
  • Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
  • The Challenge of China and Japan: Politics and Development in East Asia, ed. with Kevin Kennedy (New York: Praeger, 1985).
  • "The Chinese Political System and the Political Strategy of Economic Reform" in Bureaucracy, Politics and Decision-making in Post Mao China, eds. David Lampton and Kenneth Lieberthal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
  • "Playing to the Provinces -- Deng Xiaoping Political Strategy of Economic Reform," Studies in Comparative Communism, 23.3 (Fall-Winter 1990)

  Contact: sshirk@ucsd.edu

• William S. Tay
  Position: Professor Emeritus, Literature Department
  Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature -- University of California/San Deigo
  Selected Publications:

  • "Avant-garde Theatre in Post-Mao China: The Bus-Stop by Gao Xingjian," in Soul in Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian, ed. Kwok-kan Tam (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2001).
  • "Colonialism, the Cold War Era, and Marginal Space: The Existential Conditions of Four Decades of Hong Kong Literature," in Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century, ed. Pang-yuan Chi and David Wang (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).
  • "Pai Hsien-yung," in Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, ed. Steven Serafin, 3rd ed. (New York and London: St. James Press, 2000).
  • "Spencer in China," in The Spencer Encyclopedia, ed. A. C. Hamilton, 2nd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
  • "Ideology, Identity, and Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Antiquarianism in Taiwan," Humanities Bulletin, 4 (1995).
  • "The Ideology of Initiation: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," in New Chinese Cinemas, ed. Nick Browne, et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
  • "Ukiyo-e: Waka, Haiku, and Amy Lowell," in East-West Comparative Literature: Cross-Cultural Discourse, ed. T. W. Wong (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 1993).
  • "Modernism and Socialist Realism: The Case of Wang Meng," World Literature Today (Summer 1991).
  • "Genre, Narratology, and Popular Literature: Three Approaches to Wu-hsia Fiction," Erh-shih-yi shih-chi, no. 4 (April 1991).
  • China and the West: Comparative Literature Studies, ed. with Ying-hsiung Chou, Heh-hsiang Yuan (Seattle: University of California Press, 1980).
  • Chinese Women Writers Today, ed. Wai-lim Yip (Baltimore: University of Maryland, 1979).

  Contact: hmiris@usthk.ust.hk
  

• Wai-lim Yip
  Position: Professor, Literature Department
  Education: M.F.A, University of Iowa; Ph.D., Princeton University
  Selected Publications:
  • Selected Poems of Wai-lim Yip, ed. & intro. by Yang Kuanghan (Beijing: Friendship Press, 1993).
  • Between Landscapes (Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 1994).
  • "The Completion of Pregnancy" in Unitas, VIII.II (1992).
  • Zhonguo Shixue (Chinese Poetics) (Beijing: Sanlien, 1992).
  • Lyrics from Shelters: Modern Chinese Poetry, 1930-1950 (New York: Garland, 1992).
  • Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
  • Jiedu Xiandai Houxiandai (Reading the the Modern and the Postmodern) (Taibei: Tung-ta, 1992).
  • Modern Chinese Poetry (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1970).
  • Ezra Pound's Cathay (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1969).

  Contact: wyip@ucsd.edu

East Asian Collection Librarians

• Karl Lo
  Position: Dept. Head of East Asian Collections and IR/PS Library

  Contact: klo@ucsd.edu

• Richard Wang
  Position: Chinese Studies Librarian

  Contact: rwang@ucsd.edu

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