Tz'u Chiang, Lecturer
Thomas Hall 120
610-526-6560
tchiang@brynmawr.edu

Richard Hamilton, Acting Co-chair
Thomas Hall 246
rhamilto@brynmawr.edu

Pauline Lin, Assistant Professor
Thomas Hall 124
610-526-5671
plin@brynmawr.edu

Yonglin Jiang, Associate Professor
Thomas Hall 115
610-526-5027

yjiang@brynmawr.edu

Office Hours Spring 2009:  Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:45-3:30 and by appointment

Changchun Zhang, Instructor
Thomas Hall 120
610-526-7974
changchun_z200@yahoo.com

Faculty at Haverford College

Hank Glassman, Assistant Professor (on leave semesters I and II)
Founders 125
610-896-1265
hglassma@haverford.edu

Shizhe Huang, C.V. Professor of Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, Co-chair
Founders 123
610-896-1262
shuang@haverford.edu

Masayo Kaneko, Visiting Assistant Professor
mkaneko@haverford.edu

Yoko Koike, Senior Lecturer, Director of Japanese Language Program
Founders 126
610-896-1109
ykoike@haverford.edu

Paul Jakov Smith, Professor of History and East Asian Studies
Hall 208
610-896-1068
psmith@haverford.edu

Yukino Tanaka Godo, Lecturer
Founders 123
610-896-1262
ytanaka@haverford.edu

Hai Lin Zhou, Visiting Assistant Professor
Hall 208
610-896-1068
hzhou@haverford.edu

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Faculty Profiles

Shizhe Huang
Professor of Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics
Co-Chair of East Asian Studies Department
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Shi-Zhe Huang   is C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics. Her research interests center on formal semantics, the syntax/semantics interface, and Chinese linguistics. Particular areas that she has worked on include quantification theory, indefinites and scope ambiguity in Chinese, event semantics, type-theoretic accounts of adjectives, nouns, and verbs, modification theory, and comparative syntax/semantics of Chinese and English. She has taught an array of courses at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and occasionally at Swarthmore College. They include, but are not limited to: Structure of Chinese, Introduction to Syntax, Introduction to Semantics, Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition (co-taught with Dr. Thomas Roeper, UMass ), Intermediate Chinese, Chinese Civilization, and Chinese Language in Culture and Society.

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Paul Smith
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Paul Jakov Smith offers courses on Chinese, East Asian, and comparative history, with a special focus on the social and cultural history of China from the tenth through the twentieth century.  Recent courses include surveys of China in the mid-imperial (10th through 16th century), late-imperial (17th through 19th century), and modern eras, as well as seminars on warrior and outlaw sagas in China and Japan, modern Chinese political culture, and China’s place in global history.   Smith’s research is centered on the institutional, social, and cultural history of mid-imperial China, spanning the Song (960-1279), Yuan (1271-1368), and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties.  He has written books and articles on state intervention in the Song economy, Chinese culture and society under Mongol rule, war and the northern frontier as a factor in political culture, and -- most recently -- on the great 16th century novel Shuihu zhuan (Water Margin) as a window onto the military subculture of North China from the 10th century onwards.  In addition to co-editing The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History and Volume 5A of The Cambridge History of China (on the Song Dynasty and its precursors), he is currently at work on a book project provisionally entitled “War and Political Culture in Mid-Imperial China: The Song Military and the Literati State.”  Smith’s scholarship has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.  He is the current John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences and Faculty Director of Haverford’s Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.

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Hank Glassman (on leave semesters I & II)
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

"I’m interested in culture and history. How have we, as a species, made sense of where we’ve found ourselves over the centuries? While the human situation can be said to remain largely the same, our sense of ourselves as well as our modes of expression vary greatly with timeand place. My scholarly research largely focuses on religion and gender in the history of medieval Japanese Buddhism. How did men, women, and families imagine themselves, their world and their place in it, in Japan from the twelfth century’s courtly ideals, to the civil wars of the fifteenth century, to the urban bustle of the seventeenth century? In the classroom, I offer courses on Buddhism, Religion and Gender, East Asian Religions, Japanese Literature, Language, and History. I really enjoy teaching the Japanese Civilization course where we have the challenge of learning all about Japan, from the dawn of time through 1995 -- all in one semester. It’s a challenge to try to cover all the bases, but it lets me think in a broader way about issues in Japanese culture and history that I pursue more narrowly in my research. The best part about teaching at Haverford and Bryn Mawr is the sincerity and the enthusiasm of the students."

For more information visit http://www.haverford.edu/east/glassman

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Yonglin Jiang
Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Yonglin Jiang offers courses on Chinese and East Asian history. Recent courses include surveys of Chinese civilization, Chinese revolution, and human rights in China, as well as seminar on legal culture in imperial China. In 2009-2010, he will teach women in Chinese history, history of Chinese religions, history of Confucianism, and understanding contemporary China. Jiang’s research focuses on legal culture in late imperial China. He is the author of The Great Ming Code (2005), Manifesting the Mandate of Heaven: Cosmology and Legal Culture in Early Ming China (forthcoming), and a number of articles on legal philosophy, the body, ethnicity, religion, and law enforcement. Currently, Jiang is working on a book project tentatively entitled “Negotiating Justice: Local Adjudication and Social Change in Late Imperial China.” Jiang’s scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is president of the Society for Ming Studies.

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Pauline Lin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

"I specialize in early medieval Chinese poetry and art, with a particular focus on understanding the daily lives of the literati and their interactions with nature. In my research, I am especially interested in recreating the literary culture of a particular historical city, and in reading literature with other disciplines. My current project, "Landscape Culture in the Early Medieval City of Ye (196-240A.D.)" uses textual, archaeological and visual sources to recreate the 2 nd century Chinese literati's diverse experiences of nature in their everyday lives. My interest in integrating interdisciplinary materials to understand nature, cities, and daily life (which includes food, gardens, travel, and everyday objects) carries over into my teaching--I will offer courses on early Medieval Chinese cities, Chinese visual culture, as well as Chinese literature and language."

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Tz'u Chiang
Lecturer
B.A., Tunghai University

"I have taught Chinese language to different levels of students for many years, mostly in Taiwan. This year, I'm in charge of the third year level. No matter what the level is, when I teach, besides pronunciation and tones, I also emphasize accuracy and precision in grammar and wording. In addition to teaching, I'm also interested in producing new teaching materials."

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Yoko Koike
Senior Lecturer
Director of the Japanese Language Program
M.S., University of Pennsylvania

"In my classes, I aim at helping to create a learning community where students appreciate different viewpoints and different ways of expressions. In this environment, students often learn through interaction. We limit the use of English to a minimum in class to help students become speakers of Japanese as early as possible. I am pleased that many of my students are involved in a language partnership with Japanese residents in the area from which they learn invaluable lessons. Especially in the intermediate and advanced classes, students receive rigorous training in reading authentic texts. My goal for teaching is to help students work both autonomously and collaboratively while enjoying its process, for I believe that is essential in an effective learning."

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