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Distance Learning Tutors (Chinese Studies)
| Professor Tim Wright, BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge)Professor Wright joined the School from Australia, where he served as President of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia between 1997 and 1999. Professor Wright is the author of Coal mining in China's economy and society 1895-1937 (1984), and The Chinese economy in the early twentieth century: Recent Chinese Studies (1992). He lectures on Contemporary Chinese economy, Chinese history and politics. His research interests are China's modern socio-economic history, business history, and the political economy of contemporary China. Professor Wright is the co-tutor for the DL module State and Economy in Contemporary China.Professor Wright is on sabbatical during the academic session 2008-09.
| Professor Chris Bramall, BA, PhD (Cambridge)Chris Bramall teaches and conducts research on the contemporary Chinese economy. He has lectured at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in Economics for a dissertation on living standards in Sichuan. His publications include In Praise of Maoist Economic Planning (Oxford UP, 1993), which was translated and published in Chinese in 1996, Sources of Chinese Economic Growth, 1978-1996 (Oxford UP, 2000) and The Political Economy of Liberalization in India and China (Macmillan, forthcoming). His research interests include income inequality and poverty; famine; industrialization; agriculture; the effects of the Maoist legacy on Chinese economic growth; the economics of socialism; growth in central China; and comparative economic development in East Asia. He is Co-tutor for the module State and Economy in Contemporary China.
| Dr Lily Chen, BA (Hubei, PR China), M.Ed (Bristol), PhD (Durham)Dr Chen teaches Chinese language (specialising in reading, writing, conversation and translation at advanced level). Her research interests include written discourse analysis, the media in China, systemic functional grammar, teaching methodology and Chinese grammar. Publications include a Reader for Elementary Chinese (1993) and a translation into Chinese of Agatha Christie's 'Murder for Christmas' (1990). She is involved in DL residentials, etc.
| Dr Judith Cherry, MBE, BA (Durham), MA, PhD (Sheffield)Dr Cherry teaches advanced Korean translation and lectures on Korean business and management. She has served as Chairman of the Korea Trade Action Committee and is a member of the UK-Korea Forum for the Future and was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1999 for services to exports to Korea. She is co-tutor for CBIR East Asian Business Environment .
| Dr Sarah Dauncey, BA, MA, PhD (Durham)Director of the Chinese Language Programmes and responsible for the DL Chinese Language module, Practical Chinese for Research. Dr Dauncey teaches Chinese language and also lectures in Chinese literature and culture. Her research interests include female material culture in China and late Ming dynasty vernacular literature, in particular the Jin Ping Mei.
| Professor Hugo Dobson, BA, MA (Leeds), PhD (Sheffield)Professor Dobson lectures in the international relations of Japan and is tutor for the Unit “Political Economy” for the module Perspectives on Contemporary Japanese Society and co-tutor for the module International Political Economy of East Asia. His research interests include international history and international relations. He was the recipient of the two-year Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship and his research interests include international history and international relations. He is the co-author of Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security (Routledge, 2001) and is the author of Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: Pressures and Responses (Routledge, forthcoming).
| Dr Marjorie Dryburgh, BA, PhD (Durham)Tutor for the module Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society, Dr Dryburgh lectures in-house in Chinese and East Asian History and her areas of research are pre-war Sino-Japanese relations, regional and urban histories, and the politics of identity in modern China. She is the author of North China and Japanese expansion, 1933-1937 (2000).
| Professor Glenn Hook, BA, MA (British Columbia), LLD (Chuo)Director of the SEAS Graduate School, Professor Hook lectures in the area of Japan's international relations, one of his main areas of research interest. His major publications include Militarization and Demilitarization in Contemporary Japan (1996) and Japan's International Relations (2000). Professor Hook has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including a Leverhulme Fellowship and a Japan Foundation Fellowship. He is co-tutor for the module International Political Economy of East Asia and, with the assistance of acting tutor, Bhubhindar Singh, has also been covering aspects of Dr Dobson’s side of the module since Sept 05.
| Dr Lucy Zhao B.A.(Qingdao), M.A.(Shanghai), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cambridge)Dr Zhao joined the SEAS academic staff in September 2008 and is coordinator for the DL Chinese language modules.
| Dr Peter Matanle BA, MA (Cambridge), MA (Essex), PhD (Sheffield)Tutor for the Unit “Business and Economy” for the module Perspectives on Contemporary Japanese Society. His PhD thesis was an empirical study of the lifetime employment system in four large Japanese corporations from the point of view of theories of modernisation, globalisation and
socio-economic convergence.
| Dr Bhubhindar Singh, BA Hons (National University of Singapore), Msc (Reading), PhD (Sheffield)Dr Singh completed his PhD at the School of East Asian Studies. Prior to this, he was an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Singapore, where he conducted research on Japan's foreign policy as well as East Asian politics, and taught at SAFTI Military Institute (Singapore's Military Academy) on the geopolitics of Southeast Asia. His research interests include the international relations of Northeast Asia with a special focus on Japan’s security policy and international politics of Southeast Asia. He has published his work in Asian Survey, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and Issues & Studies and is presently preparing a monograph entitled Japanese Security Identity: From a Peace-State to an International-State (Routledge/Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies).
| Dr Robert Taylor, BA, MSc, PhD (London), MBA (Warwick)Dr Taylor lectures on China’s foreign relations and Chinese business management: his research interests include foreign direct investment in China and Sino-Japanese relations. He is tutor for CBIR East Asia Business Environment and C(L)BIR Contemporary Chinese Business & Management & China in Global Politics.
| Dr Mei Zhang, BA (Peking University, China), PhD (Cambridge)Telephone tutor for DL Chinese Language modules, Intensive Chinese I and II and also Chinese I & II, based in Sheffield. Her research includes rural development in China's poor regions and the role of rural-urban migration for solving rural poverty during the process of globalization; and the impacts of economic growth on environmental and cultural reservation, considering different cultural backgrounds. Her publications include 'China's Poor Regions - Rural Urban Migration, Poverty, Economic Reform and Urbanization' by Routledge Curzon Press (2003).
| Dr Zhong Zhang Master of Law (CUPL), LLM, PhD (Manchester)Dr Zhang teaches on the DL module ‘Contemporary Chinese Business and Management’. He joined the DL Centre in September 2008.
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