Fall 2009 Program Faculty
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The faculty listed below are the professors scheduled to teach in the Peking University - Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program during the Fall 2009 semester.
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Ling Bin
Professor of Law, Peking University
INTS 391/EAST 291 : “Chinese Law and Society”
Ling Bin serves on the faculty of the Peking University Law School. He received his LL.B and his Ph.D. at the PKU Law School and his LL.M. at the Yale Law School in 2006. He has served as editor of the Journal of Legal and Economic Studies, the Working Paper of Peking University Law School, and the Peking University Law Review. He teaches courses on Law and Economics, Legal Chinese, Sports and Law, Sociology of Law, and Jurisprudence; in addition, he is the author of 18 scholarly papers.
Xing Wang Deng
Professor of Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology, Yale University
MCDB 470: "Tutorial, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
MCDB 475: "Directed Research, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
Xing Wang Deng received his Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California at Berkeley. His research centers on plant genetics and agro-biotechnology. He is an author of over 100 research papers and Director of Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology. Professor Deng is a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award and the Kumho Science International Award. He also has served as advisory board member for several professional organizations and associate editor for multiple scientific journals.
Antonia Finnane
Professor of Chinese History, University of Melbourne
HIST 335: "Confucianism and Commerce in Chinese Society”
Professor Finnane is interested in the social history and material culture of China over the last five hundred years. She has published articles and books in urban history, with particular reference to Yangzhou; on the history of clothing and fashion in China; and on the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai. Her current research concerns consumption in late imperial China, with a particular focus on shops and shopping.
T.P. Ma
Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University
T.P. Ma is Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of Applied Physics at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Yale Center for Microelectronics. He is also a Co-Director of the Peking-Yale Joint Research Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. His research and teaching at Yale have focused on various aspects of semiconductor science and technology. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and Tianjin University, and Honorary Guest Professorship at Peking University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a life member of the American Physical Society, among numerous memberships of other professional organizations.
Alastair Minnis
Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University
ENGL 156: "Fictions of Medieval War: Chaucer and Shakespeare"
ENGL 199: "Fictions of Love: Chaucer and Shakespeare"
Alastair Minnis, currently Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University, formerly taught as Ohio State University, the Universities of York and Bristol in the Uk, and the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. His monograph include Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages (London: Scolar Press, 1984; 2nd edn., Gower Books, Aldershot, and University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988); The Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Chaucer's Shorter Poems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, rpt. 2000); Magister Amoris: The ‘Roman de la Rose’ and Vernacular Hermeneutics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); and Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). His latest monograph, Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular, is being published by Cambridge University Press in early 2009. In addition, he has edited or co-edited 15 other books, including (with Ian Johnson) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 2: The Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Professor Minnis is General Editor of Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. He has held visiting teaching appointments at Berkeley and Princeton, and resident research fellowships at the Bellagio Center, Italy (Rockefeller Foundation), the Camargo Foundation's Research Center at Cassis (Provence), and the National Humanities Center in N. Carolina. Professor Minnis is a Fellow of the English Association and of the Medieval Academy of America.
Xuan Ya
Lecturer, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University
Xuan Ya received two Masters of Art; one in Clinical Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and one in Modern Chinese Literature at Peking University. She did her undergraduate work in Chinese language and literature at Shandong University. In addition to her nearly twenty years of teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Peking University, she has also taught Chinese at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. She spent two months at Yale observing all levels of Chinese language classes.
Man Yanyun
Senior Fellow and Director, China Program, of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Director of Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy (PKU-Lincoln Center)
PKU 471: “Urban and Public Economics and Policy: A Global Perspective”
Joyce Yanyun Man has been a tenured associate professor of public economics and public policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University since 1999. She received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1993. Her teaching and research interests focus on public economics, urban and regional economics, housing economics, economic development, and environmental economics and policy analysis. Her work includes studies of public sector tax and expenditure policies, urban and regional economic development policies, infrastructure investment and financing, intergovernmental relations, housing markets and environmental policies. Starting in July, 2007, she assumed the position as Senior Fellow of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Director of its China Program, while she is on leave from Indiana University.
Yun Zhou
Professor of Sociology, Peking University
"Population and Society in East Asia”
Professor Zhou has a PhD from Arizona State University and has held positions at Peking University ever since. She specializes in population and population policy in China and Japan. She has also completed projects for the World Health Organization on the reproductive need of female migrants and on condom use among migrants in urban China.
