Spring 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 Spring 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 hi 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.
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.
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.
Valerie Hansen
Professor of History, Yale University
HIST 305: “China's Greatest Archeological Discoveries to 1275 CE”
HIST 311: “Beijing Then and Now”
Valerie Hansen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale. After two years studying Mandarin in Taiwan, she did her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and spent an additional two years in Kyoto, Japan, doing dissertation research. Now in her eighteenth year at Yale, she and her family have spent five semesters on leave in China, where she is particularly interested in tracking archeological discoveries and visiting new sites and museums.
Zhang Jian
Lecturer, School of Government, Peking University
Professor Zhang Received his BA in International Studies from Peking University and his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. He has also served as the Editor for Strategy and Management for the China Society of Strategy and Management. He has also written for the Heartland, Eurasian Review of Geopolitics.
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.
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.
