Visiting Scholars

The Center for East Asian Studies hosts a small number of visiting scholars each year who reside in the area and conduct research in consultation with a Stanford faculty member. Normally in residence for one academic year, scholars work independently on their own research projects while participating at CEAS events and in the intellectual life at Stanford. For more information about applying to become a CEAS Visiting Scholar, click here. Please note that to become a visiting scholar, you must find a Stanford faculty member to sponsor your visiting scholar status prior to applying at CEAS.

In addition to the scholars listed here, more visiting scholars and visiting fellows who research on East Asia may be found in the following departments, centers, or programs:

Shorenstein-Asia Pacific Research Center
Korean Studies Program
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships Program
Stanford Humanities Center

	Name Title / Sponsor Contact Home Institution	Research interests
	Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien Visiting Scholar, CEAS Jean-Moulin Universite Lyon III chien012@gmail.com	Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien is currently a senior researcher at Jean-Moulin Universite Lyon III in France. In 2014 she was awarded funding from the European Union to develop an archive on descendants of the Republican period in China (1911-49) and is currently working on this project. In 2012 she was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Sun-Yat Sen University. Her most recent publication project is a two-volume set of annotated poetry by a diplomat and poet who wrote during these periods (forthcoming Guangdong People's Press, 2015 and co-edited with Puk Wing-kin). Her first book, Weird English (Harvard University Press 2004) examined diaspora writers and their culturally hybrid Englishes.
	Ming Chan Distinguished Practitioner, CEAS Stanford University mingkchan2009@gmail.com	Ming Chan was a Research Fellow (’76-80/99-09) in the Hoover Institution at Stanford where he obtained his PhD. He has taught at UCLA, Duke, Mount Holyoke, University of Hong Kong, and held endowed chairs at Swarthmore and Grinnell. Chan is author/editor of 13 volumes and 70+ articles/book chapters on Chinese history, Sino-foreign ties and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao studies, and is currently editing 2 Macao volumes while continuing his efforts on Hong Kong oral history-documentary archives.
	Yu Chen Visiting Scholar, CEAS South China Normal University tracychen97@hotmail.com	Yu Chen is a lecturer in South China Normal University. She received her PhD from Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou. Her principal research interests cover modern Chinese literature and culture, love and emotions in Chinese literature, and cultural study of gender. She has conducted several projects including oral history of "zishunu" (the self-combed women) culture in Guangzhou, the rewriting of Chahuanu (Chinese version of La Dame aux Camelias) and the change of romantic fiction writing in Late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, etc. Her research at Stanford University will focus on translating and rewriting of Chahuanu and the change of the romantic love culture in modern China.
	Jiao Li Visiting Scholar, CEAS Tsinghua University gracelijiao@gmail.com	Jiao Li is an Associate Professor of Tsinghua University. She received her PhD from Tsinghua University in 2009, with studying the intellectual history in Song Dynasty. Afterwards, she switched to work on Chinese modern history since her post-doctoral stage, and focused on Chinese political history between 1911 and 1949. Recently she has been interested in Social Mobilization and Mass Organizations of CCP in Yan'an (1935-1945), and the related party history during the Anti-Japanese War.
	Jui-fen Rachel Lu Visiting Scholar, CEAS Chang Gung University jrlu@stanford.edu rachel@mail.cgu.edu.tw	Jui-fen Rachel Lu, Sc.D., is a Professor at Chang Gung University (CGU) in Taiwan, where she teaches comparative health systems, health economics, and health care financing and has served as department chair (2000-2004), Associate Dean (2009-2010) and Dean of College Management (2010-2013). She earned her B.S. from National Taiwan University, and her M.S. and Sc.D. from Harvard University, and she was also a Takemi Fellow at Harvard (2004-2005). Prof. Lu is currently the President of Taiwan Society of Health Economics (TaiSHE) and an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University (2007-2017). Dr. Lu was also the recipient of IBM Faculty Award in 2009. Her research focuses on 1) the equity issues of the health care system; 2) impact of the NHI program on health care market and household consumption patterns; 3) comparative health systems in Asia-Pacific region. She is a long-time and active member of Equitap (Equity in Asia-Pacific Health Systems) research network and was the coordinator for the catastrophic payment component of Equitap II research project which involved 21 country teams and was jointly funded by IDRC, AusAID, and ADB. Professor Lu has also been appointed to serve as a member on various government committees dealing with health care issues in Taiwan.
	Hayato Oka Visiting Student Researcher, CEAS Doshisha University hayatoo@stanford.edu	Hayato Oka received his B.A. (2010) and M.A. (2012) in English from Doshisha University. He is currently a graduate student at Doshisha University. His recent research interest is the study of English Romanticism, especially Mary Shelley's six novels. He has lately written articles titled "Otherness Forever: Reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through Pictorial and Aesthetic Terms" published on 20 January 2014 and "The Death of Love: The Conflict between 'private' and 'public' in Mary Shelley's Valperga" published on 16 March 2015.
	Janice Stockard Distinguished Practitioner, CEAS Stanford University stockard@stanford.edu	Janice E. Stockard is a cultural anthropologist currently completing two writing projects, including an innovative digital multimedia text that focuses on China as one of its primary ethnographic cases. Six years in development at Cengage/Wadsworth, Cultural Anthropology: Mapping Cultures Across Space and Time is now moving into production. During her recent voyage around the world as professor with ‘Semester at Sea,’ Stockard completed research on another long-term project. The resulting manuscript, “Silk Road to New England, 1760-1840,” is a work in historical ethnography -- and a companion volume to her earlier ethnography, Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930. Each focuses on the rise and decline of a silk industry, as well as tracks developments in silk technology and the growth of a regional silk ‘culture.’ Stockard also serves as Editor of the ‘Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology’ Series (Cengage), as well as serves as a Member of the Social Science Advisory Board at the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). She received her degrees in anthropology from Stanford.
	Qing Xiao Visiting Scholar, CEAS Chinese National Academy of Arts qingxiao@stanford.edu	Dr. Qing Xiao is an Associate Professor in Chinese National Academy of Arts. She received her Doctoral Degree in Arts from Beijing Normal University and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Communication University of China, researching film arts and Chinese arts. After working in Chinese National Academy of Arts, she researched Chinese arts and conducted comparative studies of Chinese and American culture. At Stanford, she will mainly dedicate herself to research projects relating to Chinese arts and culture policy.
	Youzhen Xu Visiting Scholar, CEAS Wuhan University yzxu@whu.edu.cn	Youzhen Xu is a Professor of History at Wuhan University. Her research project while at Stanford focusses on Chinese expats in Southeast Asia and the influence of the U.S. and PRC on this population from 1949-1950s.
	Helen Young Distinguished Practitioner, CEAS Independent Scholar hybj@stanford.edu	Helen Young is author of Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (University of Illinois Press, 2001). She continues to pursue research, writing, and lecturing on the experience of women in modern Chinese history.
	Isaac Yue Visiting Scholar, CEAS University of Hong Kong isaacyue@hku.hk	Isaac Yue is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests cover translation studies, classical Chinese fiction, East-West cultural exchange since the nineteeth century, and theories of cultural identity. Some of his more recent publications include Translating Culture: Late-Victoria Literature into Chinese (NTUP 2015) and Scribes of Gastronomy: Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature (HKUP 2013).