Academic Staff
Professor Dagmar Schaefer
Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies
history of science and technology in Asia, with special emphasis on China, Song to Ming Dynasty (960–1644); economy and social history; material Culture, textiles, silk
Professor William Callahan
Professor of International Politics and China Studies
China, East Asia, IR theory, world orders, poststructuralism
Dr Yang-wen Zheng
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Modern History, Research Director of CCS
maritime trade, economic globalisation, and sinicisation of foreign goods and things
Dr James St. André
Lecturer in Translation Studies
Ming-Qing fiction, crime fiction, translation studies, history of translation, literary theory
Dr Elena Barabantseva
Lecturer in Chinese Politics
Chinese identity politics and nationalism, ethnic and diaspora politics in China, transnationalism, theories of the nation-state, poststructuralist international relations
Dr Jeesoon Hong
Lecturer in Chinese Culture
media culture, body, space, intellectual history of China
Dr William Schroeder
Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Society and Culture
queer China, affect theory, globalism, kinship and family, social-scientific research methods
Dr Shogo Suzuki
Lecturer in Chinese Politics
international relations, Chinese foreign policy, Japanese foreign policy, Sino-Japanese relations, Sino-Japanese reconciliation
Dr Yin-fang Zhang
Lecturer in Development Economics
Privatisation and economic regulation in utility industries in developing countries, regulatory impact assessment, foreign direct investment in infrastructure industries in middle- and low-income countries, poverty reduction and regulatory reform in public utilities
Dr. Kaby Kung
Lecture in Chinese Cinema, Chinese Feminism and Online Literature
Room: NG14 Samuel Alexander Building
Office Hours: 2p.m.~4p.m., Tuesday afternoons
Email: Kaby.Kung@manchester.ac.uk