Spring 2008 Program Faculty
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The faculty listed below have taught in the Peking University - Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program during the Spring 2008 semester.
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Dong Chen
Assistant Professor of Economics, Peking University
ECON 120: "Introduction to Chinese Economy"
Professor Dong received his BA in Economics from Chongquing University, and his MA in Economics from the University of Victoria in Canada. He recently received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Peking University. He specializes in industrial organization, applied econometrics, and Chinese economy.
Deborah Davis
Professor of Sociology, Yale University
SOCY 140b: "Four Giants of the Modern World"
SOCY 166: "Method and Practice of Fieldwork"
Deborah S. Davis (Ph.D. Boston University, 1979) is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her primary teaching interests are historical and comparative sociology, inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork. Davis is currently a member of the National Committee on US China Relations and serves on the editorial boards of The European Journal of East Asian Studies, Social Forces and the new Yale China Health Journal. At Yale she has served as Director of Academic Programs at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (2001-02), Chair of the Department of Sociology (1992-97), Chair of the Council of East Asian Studies (1991-1992 and 1999-2000), Director of Graduate Studies in East Asian Studies (1984-88) and Sociology (1999-2000), Member of the Publications Committee for Yale Press (1997-2001), and Member of the Tenure Appointments Committee for the Social Sciences (1997-2002 and 2004-2006). She now serves as co-chair of the Women's Faculty Forum at Yale. Past publications have analyzed the politics of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese family life, social welfare, class cleavages and occupational mobility. She is currently completing two books: A Home of Their Own, a study of the social consequences of privatization of real estate in Shanghai and Wealth and Poverty in China Today, proceedings from conference held at Yale on how recent Chinese experiences challenge prevailing sociological analysis of inequality and stratification. She also is actively involved in research and advocacy work in response to the AIDS epidemic in China. In 2002 she was one of the founders of the new on-line Yale China Health Journal and is currently editing a volume with Professor Helen Siu on social and cultural responses to SARS outbreak in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei.
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.
Michael Friedmann
Adjunct Professor of Theory and Chamber Music, Department & School of Music, Yale University
MUSI 240b: "The Role of the Performer in the Musical Experience"
MUSI 342b: "Analysis and Performance of Chamber Music"
Professor Friedmann specializes in ear training, piano performance (special foci on the music of Schoenberg, Schumann and Beethoven), analysis of post-tonal music, and chamber music coaching. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in composition from Harvard University. He has served on the music faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music, the University of Pittsburgh, the Hartt School of Music, and was Valentine Visiting Professor at Amherst College in the fall of 1990. He has also taught at the Steans Institute for Young Artists of the Ravinia Festival. Mr. Friedmann has published articles in several theoretical journals. His book, Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music, was given a special citation by the Society for Music Theory. His compositions have been widely performed, and he is a frequent piano recitalist. He joined the Yale faculty in 1989.
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.
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Assistant Professor, History of Art (Chinese Art), Yale University
HSAR 350: "Chinese Art and the Modern World"
HSAR 481: "Art and Architecture of the Forbidden City in China"
Professor Tseng received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2001, and joined the Yale faculty in 2003. She has published a number of articles concerned with diverse cultural issues in Chinese art, such as history and memory, visual replication and political persuasion, pictorial representation and historical writing, and the interchangeability of the self and the other. She is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled Picturing Heaven: Visibility and Visuality in Early China.
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.
Weimin Zhong
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
"Key Concepts in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology"
MCBD 440b: “Seminar in Brain Development and Plasticity”
MCDB 475: "Directed Research Under the Supervision of Weimin Zhong"
Weimin Zhong received his Ph.D. at Rockefeller University in 1993, after studying at Peking University and Peking Union Medical College. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, before joining Yale faculty in 1999. Research in his laboratory focuses on the fundamental biology of stem cells and currently investigates how neural stem cells are maintained and neuronal diversity is generated in the mammalian nervous system. He has served on expert panels at the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is also a section editor for the journal Neuroscience published by the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). He is a board member of the Chinese Biological Investigators Society (CBIS) and organizes a year-long course for first-year graduate students in life sciences at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Tsinghua University and Peking University.
