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Emeritus
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HARUO
AOKI (Japanese Language & Linguistics) |
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Haruo
Aoki, Professor Emeritus, received his BA from Hiroshima University
in English
in 1953, his MA in English from UCLA in 1958, and his PhD in
Linguistics from U.C.Berkeley in 1965. After teaching for two years
at the Stanford Center for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, he returned
to Berkeley, where he taught Japanese linguistics and language
in what is now
the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures until his retirement as
Professor in 1991. He has published books in English and Japanese on such topics
as Japanese language pedagogy, Japanese linguistics, and Nez Perce, including
the monumental Nez Perce Dictionary (University of California Publications
in Linguistics, 1994). He is a recipient of the Shinmura Izuru Prize. |
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CYRIL
BIRCH (Chinese
Literature) |
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Cyril
Birch, Agassiz Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature,
retired in 1990 after 44 years of teaching, first in London's
School of Oriental and African Studies and then from 1960 onwards
at
Berkeley. He has held research
fellowships at Stanford, and in Hong Kong, Kyoto, and
Washington
D.C., and visiting professorships at Taiwan National
University and in Hawaii, Melbourne, and British Columbia. His
publications
cover traditional fiction and drama and twentieth century
writers. Stories from a Ming Collection (1958) is still in print
as a paperback,
as are other books, including Anthology of Chinese Literature
(2 vols.), Peony Pavilion, and Scenes for Mandarins. He and his
wife Dorothy enjoy frequent visits by their two
children and three grandchildren to their retreat
in the Sierra Nevada foothills. |
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JAMES
BOSSON (Altaic
Languages; Tibetan) |
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KUN
CHANG (Chinese Linguistics) |
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Kun
Chang received his B.A. (1938) in Chinese language and literature
from National Tsinghua University and his M.A. (1949) and Ph.D.
(1955) from Yale. He became an Academician in
Academia Sinica in 1972. After teaching Chinese,
Tibetan, and Sanskrit for 12 years at the University of
Washington in Seattle, he arrived at Berkeley in 1963, where
he taught Chinese Language and historical linguistics
until his retirement in 1988. He has conducted
research at National Southwestern University, Academia
Sinica, and Yenching University (linguistic survey of non-Chinese
languages in southwestern China). His fields of publication include
Moso, Miao-yao, historical Chinese Linguistics, and, with Betty Shefts
Chang, spoken Tibetan. |
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H.
SAMUEL CHEUNG (Chinese Literature & Linguistics) |
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Hung-nin
Samuel Cheung received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from The Chinese
University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley. In 1974, he joined the Berkeley
faculty, teaching Chinese language and literature.
He served as Coordinator of the Chinese language
program in the early 1990s, and as Chair in 1997-98. Professor
Cheung has also taught at the University of Oregon, the University
of Hong Kong, and Baptist University of Hong Kong. His research
interests include Chinese linguistics, Cantonese dialect, and
vernacular
Chinese fiction. He is currently Professor of
Humanities and Director of the Center for Chinese
Linguistics at The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. |
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 JOHN
JAMIESON (Chinese
Literature)
John Jamieson received his Ph.D. (Oriental Languages, 1969) from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught courses in Chinese language and literature and graduate seminars in Tang-Song and Korean texts at Berkeley from 1967 until early retirement in 1994. In 1991 he joined the faculty at The Chinese University of Hong Kong where he served, through 2002, as Director of the Yale-China Chinese Language Center and Visiting Professor of East Asian Studies. During 2003-2008, he developed and directed the UC Center in China (Shanghai). He has held research fellowships at Harvard, Cambridge, Kyoto and Peking Universities, and the Jilin Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests remain focused on late Tang through Liao-Jin China and interaction with Japan and the Korean Peninsula. His most recent book length publication is Kong Fu – An Elementary Chinese Text (two volumes, with Lin Tao, The Chinese University Press, 2002). He lives in retirement in China where he is a member of the Liao Jin Society and the China Ceramics Society. |
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DAVID
KEIGHTLEY (Chinese
History) |
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David
N. Keightley taught early Chinese history at Berkeley between
1969, the year he received
his PhD from Columbia University, and 1998. While at Berkeley he
served as Chair of the Center for Chinese
Studies, Chair of the History Department, and Interim Director
of the East
Asian Library. He also served as a Professor in the Department
of East Asian Languages
and Cultures in 1996-98. He is the author of Sources of Shang
History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China (1978)
and The
Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China
(ca.
1200-1045 B.C.),
and editor of The Origins of Chinese Civilization (1983).
He also wrote the chapter on the Shang dynasty for the Cambridge
History of Ancient China (1999). One of the editors and founders
of the
journal, Early China, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978
and a
MacArthur
Fellowship in 1986. One of first American scholars to
visit the People's Republic of China (in 1975), he served on various
subcommittees
of the Committee for Scholarly Communication with the PRC in the
late 1980s and early 1990s. A Research Fellow at Cambridge University
in 1978-79 and a visiting professor at Peking University in 1981,
he is the
author of numerous articles on Neolithic and Bronze-Age China,
with particular
attention to the Late Shang dynasty (ca.12000 to 1045 B.C.). Keightley
is
currently at work on a book called Working for His Majesty:
Labor Mobilization and Management in Late Shang China. |
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LEWIS
LANCASTER (Buddhism;
Tibetan) |
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Lewis
Lancaster, a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts, was
the first student to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist
Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. By means of
a grant from the National Geographic Society,
he and a group of students and faculty inventoried
texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas.
He then began to research the problems of converting Buddhist texts
from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which resulted in major
CD ROM databases. That computer experience then led him to form
an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural Atlas
Initiative, which is housed on the Berkeley campus and has a thousand affiliates worldwide.
He is now President at Hsilai University in Rosemead. |
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 SUSAN
MATISOFF (Japanese Literature)
Susan Matisoff, Professor, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in
1973. She taught at Stanford (1972-1999) before joining the Berkeley faculty.
After serving as Chair for four years, she continued to teach in the department until 2006. In retirement she is finding more time for research and writing on various topics related to noh drama as well as sekkyô-bushi, a form of early Tokugawa period puppet theater that developed from medieval oral narrative traditions.
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 JEFFREY
RIEGEL (Chinese Literature)
Upon his retirement from Berkeley in 2007, Jeffrey Riegel took up the position of Professor and Head of School in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney. He has recently published articles on early Confucian thought, the burial of the First Emperor, and the 18th century poet Yuan Mei. His recently completed translation of the ethical and political chapters of the Mozi will appear in late 2011 or early 2012 and he is currently working on a book-length study of Confucius’s thought for Polity Press. Professor Riegel’s work at the University of Sydney takes him frequently to China. In 2011 he will be a Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai and a Visiting Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He recently bought a home in Suzhou and plans in the future to divide his time between Berkeley, Suzhou, and Sydney.
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PAN-HSIN
TING (Chinese
Linguistics) |
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Prof. Ting graduated from
National Taiwan University and received his Ph.D. from the University
of Washington at Seattle in 1972. Tutored by eminent scholars such
as T'ung-he Tung, Paul Serruys and Fang-kuei Li, Prof. Ting specializes
in Chinese dialectology and the phonological history of Chinese.
He has exerted great influence on the development of Chinese linguistics
as a field by (a) fusing both traditional Chinese scholarship,
new fieldwork data and modern linguistics of the West, and (b)
holding three important posts, namely (i) Acting Director (1981-85)
and then Director (1985-89), Institute of Philology and History,
Academia Sinica; (ii) first Professor (1989-94) and then Agassiz
Professor of Chinese Linguistics (1994-98) at UC Berkeley; and
(iii) Dean of Humanities and Social Science (1996-2004), Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology. Prof. Ting is also an Academician
of Academia Sinica (elected 1986) and an Honorary Member of the
Linguistic Society of America (elected 2000). |
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STEPHEN
WEST (Chinese
Literature) |
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Professor
Stephen H. West received his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Michigan in 1972. He began his teaching
career at the University of Arizona (1972-85) before joining
the Berkeley faculty in 1986. He teaches courses in the prose
and poetry of late medieval China (the Song and Yuan dynasties),
urban literature of the 12th-13th century, and early Chinese
drama. His research specialties are in early Chinese theater,
urban culture of the late medieval period, and cultural history
of the same period. |
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