China

Lecturer Bios

Dr. Jiang Jin
Jin received her Ph.D. in East Asian History since 1600 from Stanford University (1998) and her MA in Modern Chinese History from East China Normal University (1984). Dr. Jiang is currently Professor of History at East China Normal University and Director, where she has also served as Director of the Center for Gender and Cultural Studies since 2005. Dr. Jiang taught at Vassar College in upstate New York (1998-2004). A Shanghai native, Dr. Jiang has taught courses on Chinese women’s history, and has authored many articles in English, including: “Performing Women: Gender in Shanghai’s Public Culture, 1020-1990,” and “Times Have Changed: Men and Women are the Same.” Her recent journal articles include: “Modernity East and West: Melodrama and Yanqing in Shanghai’s Popular Culture,” “Gender, History and Medicine in Feminist Scholarship: An Interview with Charlotte Furth,” and “Liang Shuming and the Emergence of Twentieth-Century New Confucianism.” Dr. Jiang has received funding from Grants for Major Researches in Social Sciences from the Chinese Ministry of Education and has recently completed a book, Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in 20th Century Shanghai, which was published in January 2009 by University of Washington Press.

John W. Tai
John received his BA in Political Science and History from UCLA and MA in East Asian Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.  He is completing his doctoral dissertation about Chinese non-governmental organizations for the Department of Political Science at the George Washington University. John is the Academic Director of the China in a Global Context program and was the visiting scholar and then the academic director of the Beijing Center of the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad) in 2007 – 2009. Before coming to China, he had worked for nearly ten years in Washington, D.C. as a foreign policy analyst specializing in China and U.S.-China relations in the United States Government and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Dr. Xu Mingqi
Mingqi received his Ph.D. in International Economics (1994) and MA in Economics (1982) from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). Dr. Xu currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and Director of the Department of International Finance at SASS, where he also served as Editor in Chief of Social Sciences and Academic Quarterly (1998-2001). His international experiences include working as a Visiting Scholar at the International Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands (2001), Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University (1995-1996), and University of Western Ontario in Canada (1987-1988). He has taught as a guest Professor in the School of International and Area Studies at Seoul National University in South Korea, where he researched regional monetary cooperation. Dr. Xu also worked as Senior Financial Analyst and Vice President of the Shanghai Far East Credit Rating Corporation (1993-1998). His main research areas are in the theory of world economy, international finance, monetary economics and monetary policy, and China’s financial system reforms. He has edited or authored over 13 books and book chapters published in China, Netherlands and, the U.S., and has written over 65 journal and newspaper articles about the Chinese economy.

Charles Mo
Charles holds an MBA from California State University Fullerton, a BA in Business Administration from Hong Kong Baptist College, and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California and New Hampshire. He is the founder of Charles Mo & Company, a wholly owned American consulting firm specializing in recruiting, opening new factories and businesses, outsourcing accounting, and providing HR related assessment tools for corporations. He is also an independent Board Member and the Chairman of the Audit Committee on the Board of Directors of Omnialuo, Inc. and China Ritar Power Corporation, both OTC public companies in the US. In January 2008 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of NVIS Intellimedia Technology Group, a NYSE listed company. Charles Mo moved to China in 1995 as the Controller/General Manager for Polaroid China, and later served as the Chief Financial Officer for Nike China, and finally as the Chief Operating Officer for Coca-Cola in Shanghai until 2005. He previously worked for Wang Laboratories, Inc. in Massachusetts in various financial management capacities. In 2003 Charles Mo joined American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, and was appointed Corporate Social Responsibility Committee Vice Chair in 2004, Board Treasurer in 2005, and elected Board Vice Chairman in 2006, 2007, and 2008. He also served as the Chairman of the Audit Committee in 2005 and member of the Audit Committee in 2006 and 2007.

Dr. Wei Wei
Wei received his BA in Sociology from Peking University (1996) and his MA and Ph.D. in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago (2003, 2006). Currently he is an Associate Professor of Sociology at East China Normal University. Wei’s research interests cover urban sociology, gender/sexuality, urban social movements and qualitative methods, with a focus on identity formation, public space, community mobilization organized around homosexuality in contemporary Chinese society. He has published articles in both English and Chinese on leading academic journals including Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Society: Chinese Journal of Sociology, and Sexuality Research in China.

Dr. Zhang Tiejun
Tiejun received his Ph.D. (2004), Licentiate Degree (1996) and MSS (1995) in the Department of Peace and Development Research at Göteborg University in Sweden, where he completed his dissertation on Chinese security strategy in the early 21st century. Dr. Zhang is Associate Research Professor and the Acting Director of the Department of European Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), a premier domestic policy institute influential in advising the national government on international policy. Dr. Zhang has worked as a visiting scholar and researcher at the German Institute of International and Security Studies in Berlin (2005); the Department of Security and Strategic Studies at the National University of Malaysia (2001), where he researched the ASEAN approach to Asia-Pacific security cooperation with funding from the Ford Foundation; and at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of United Nations University in Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Zhang is well published in Chinese and English, including several book chapters and articles in international journals, such as the Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies, and Comparative Strategy. His research interests include East Asian regionalism, Chinese foreign and security policies, Asia-Europe cooperation, and Sino-European relations.