Chinese Studies in North America Project Update

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Chinese Studies in North AmericaProject
Update Haihui ZhangMarch 27, 2009
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Background Book StructureChapter
ContributorsProgress and Project Results
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Background
Development of Chinese Studies in N. America
-- Rapid development since 80s -- Extended
research disciplines and new
developments -- Significant research
accomplishments -- Key issues, puzzles,
debates, and challenges
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Background (cont.)
Needs from Chinese scholars -- Centers of
Chinese studies abroad in China --
Publications on China studies abroad --
Translations of English academic works
-- Expectations for scholarly exchanges
and cooperation
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Background (cont.)
The project aims at -- conducting a
comprehensive academic review on Chinese
studies in North America on the past
decades -- assessing the scholarship of Chinese
studies in North America -- discussing
future trends -- opening up academic cooperative
opportunities -- reviewing and presenting
unique sources on Chinese studies in N.
America
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Book Structure
??????? - ??????????Chinese Studies in North
America Research, Teaching and Resources
Part one Academic Part two
Teaching and programs Part three
Resources Appendices

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Book Structure (cont.)
How the structure is formed -- literature
review -- faculty recommendations --
cooperative opportunity between scholars
and librarians -- publishers inputs
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Chapter Contributors
Editorial team Haihui
Zhang (University of Pittsburgh) Zhaohui Xue
(Stanford University) Shuyong Jiang
(University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign)
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Chapter Contributor (cont.)
Preface one Cho-yun Hsu, Professor Emeritus,
Department of History, U. of
Pittsburgh Preface two Eugene Wu, Librarian
Emeritus, Harvard- Yenching Library, Harvard
University
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Part one Academic Anthropology Dru
Gladney (Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona
College)Art - Art history
Cary Liu (Princeton U.) - Modern
art Minglu Gao (U.of
Pittsburgh) China classics studies
Dongfang Shao (Stanford U.) Drama
Min Tian (U. of
Iowa)Economics - Pre-modern
Christopher Isett (U. of Minnesota)   -
Modern and contemporary
Thomas Rawski (U. of Pittsburgh)
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Education Xuelan Rong (U. of N. Carolina
Chapel Hill) History - Early China
Paul Goldin (U. of Penn)
- Early Medieval China
Cynthia Chennault (U. of
Florida) - Tang studies
Lu Yang (U. of Kansas) - Song and
Yuan studies
Hilde De Weerdt (U. of Oxford)
- Ming studies Martin Heijdra
(Princeton U.)

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- Qing studies Evelyn Rawski
(U. of Pittsburgh) - 20th century
Win-hsin Yeh (UC Berkeley) -
City history Liping Wang (U. of
Minnesota) Law - Legal history of Qing
and Minguo
Matthew Sommer (Stanford U.) -
Chinese law studies Wei Luo (Washington
U.) Linguistics
Victor Mair (U. of Penn)

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Literature - Early China
Martin Kern (Princeton U.) -
Middle period Tian Xiaofei
(Harvard U.)
- Song-Yuan
Ron Egan (UCSB) - Ming-Qing
Wilt Idema (Harvard U.) 
- Modern
Wang Ban (Stanford U.) Music
Bell Yung (U. of
Pittsburgh)
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Political science - China politics
Wenfang Tang (U.of Pittsburgh) -
China's foreign and security policies
David Shambaugh (George
Washington U.)Religious studies - Buddhism
Huaiyu Chen (Arizona State
U.) - Popular religion and Daoism

Shin-yi Chao (Rutgers U.)
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Science history  Benjamin
Elman (Princeton U.)Sociology
Xueguang Zhou (Stanford U.)Women
studies
Lu Weijing (UCSD)
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Part two Teaching and ProgramChinese language
courses in U.S.
T.C. Yao and K.T. Yao (U. of
Hawaii)
Survey on Chinese studies
programs in N. America

Hong Xu (U. of
Pittsburgh)
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Part three Resources A Short History of the
Chinese Libraries in N. America Tai-loi
Ma (Princeton U.) Resources on Buddhism
studies in U.S. Chi-wah Chan
(Yale U.) Resources on Daoism studies in U.S.
Li Wang (Brown U.)
Observation on Research and Resources of Modern
Chinese Social, Economic and Cultural
History in North America Hong Cheng (UCLA) An
Overview of Research Resources in North America
for Studies of Modern and Contemporary
Chinese history Yuan Zhou (U. of Chicago)
Resources on Ancient Asia History in N. America
Xiaohe Ma (Harvard U.) Study of Chinas
Minorities in North America Survey of
Programs and Resources Grace
Weirsma (Fairbank Center for
Chinese Studies, Harvard U.)
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Chinese Local History and Research Resources

Zhijia Shen (U. of
Washington)Resources on Chinese Immigration to
N. America



Liren Zheng (Cornell U.)Review and Summary on
Resources of Chinese Immigration to S. America


Xiuying Zou (U. of
Pittsburgh)Guide to U.S. Resources on
Missionaries in China
M .Y.
Poon (Library of Congress) Materials on Chinese
YWCA Held in N. America

Su Chen (U. of
Minnesota) Resources on Chinese Women Studies
in N. America
Karen Wei (U. of Illinois Urbana
Champaign)
Introduction to China Law Collections
and Resources in the United States


Nongji Zhang (Harvard U.)
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A Content Analysis of Research on Chinese
Education (1990-2007)

Chengzhi Wang (Columbia U.)

Zao Liu(Texas AM
U.)Resources on History and Criticism of Chinese
Literature
Shuyong Jiang (U.of Illinois Urbana
Champaign)Chinese Linguistics in the United
States A Literature Analysis

Peter Zhou (UC
Berkeley)Translation of Chinese Classic and
Modern Literature in the US

Guoqing Li (Ohio State U.)
Independent Thought, Independent Camera, and
Independent Record-Chinese Independent Film and
Its Collections in North America



Jim Cheng (UCSD)Resources on Chinese Art History
in North America
Min Xu
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)

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Electronic Resources and Chinese Studies in North
America Application and Impact

Jidong Yang (U. of Michigan)
Chinese Rare Book
Project in Princeton University

Soren Edgren (Princeton
U.)An Introduction to China Data Center and the
Data Resources on Population, Economy and
Environment of China

Shuming Bao (U. of
Michigan)Scholarly Communications on Chinese
Studies An Analysis of English Serial
Publications 1977-2007 

Su Chen (U.
of Minnesota)

Chengzhi Wang (U. of Columbia)The
Development of Chinese Studies in the U.S. in the
Perspective of Dissertation Resources
Tao
Yang (Rutgers U.)
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Analysis of Reference Books on Chinese Studies in
N. America

Xian Wu (Cornell U.) Review on Two Publications
about Chinese Studies Scholars in N. America
Haihui Zhang (U. of
Pittsburgh) Appendix
Zhaohui Xue (Stanford U.)
Directory of Chinese studies institutes in N.
AmericaList of academic journals for Chinese
studies in N. America
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Progress and Project Results
One book ??????? ?????? ???? Chinese Studies
in North America - Research, Teaching and
Resources ?? ???? 2010
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Progress and Project Results (cont.)

• Two related conferences
• ?????2009?????????????
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• 2009?9?7-9?
• co-organized by
• East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh
• Center for China Studies Abroad, Chinese Academy
  of Social Science
• Center for Chinese Studies abroad, Beijing
  Foreign Studies University

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Progress and Project Results (cont.)

• ??????????????International Conference for
  Chinese Studies in North America
• (Summer, 2010)
• Host
• Center for Chinese Studies Abroad
• East China Normal University
• Co-host
• Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

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Thank You!??