Beijing

Professor Dong Chen

Dong Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Peking University. He received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2005, and obtained his master's degree from University of Victoria, Canada, and bachelor's degree from Chongqing University, China. Dr. Chen's research and teaching interests include industrial organization, applied econometrics, and Chinese economy.

Li Chen

2nd Year Language Instructor
Peking University

Hello! My name is Chen Li. I have worked as a Chinese instructor at Peking University since 1994. I was awarded an M.A. in linguistics from Peking University in 1994 and a B.A. in Chinese language and literature from Renmin University in 1991. My field of specialization is the grammar of Modern Chinese. I'm also interested in Chinese culture, especially Buddhism.

The first time I taught for Stanford was in 2001, for the summer Chinese program. I have also previously taught with BOSP. I like Stanford's beautiful campus and the nice weather, but what impressed me most were my students. They were very diligent and cooperative. They are always prepared well for class, and I really appreciate that. The Chinese classes I have taught at Stanford will live forever in my memory.

Professor Bobai Li

Bobai Li is Associate Professor of organizational management at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, Illinois. He received his MA and PhD, both in Sociology, from Stanford in 1997 and 2001 respectively. Dr. Li was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University before joining Peking University in 2006. His research interests include social inequality, labor markets, and economic sociology.

Professor Kun Li

Dr. Kun Li is Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Communication, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University.

Prof. Li received her BA in English Language and Literature from Shanxi University, China, MA in Journalism from China Academy of Social Sciences, MLS in Library Science and Ph.D. in Communication from University of Oregon.

Before teaching at Peking University in 1997, Prof. Li taught in various universities in China, Japan and US.

Prof. Li's research interests are theory of communication, comparative studies of media systems, American media studies, international communication, among others.

Professor Shizhou Wang

Professor Shizhou Wang (born on 20 June 1953 in Fujian Province, PR China) studied at the Law Faculty of Peking University (1978-1985), where he received his LL.B. and his first LL.M. degree, and also at the Law School of the University of California at Berkeley, USA (1987-1988), where he received his second LL.M degree as a CLEEC scholar. From 1994 to 1996 he worked on a research project as Alexsand-von-Humboldt Research Fellow in Max-Planck-Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg and in the University of Augsburg, Germany. He also worked in Advanced Legal Studies in University of London in 2004 as a British Academy K C Wong’ Research Fellow. He has been the Law Faculty of Peking University since 1985 and is Professor of Law & LL.D Supervisor now with the principal subjects of Chinese criminal law, comparative criminal law and international criminal law. Since 2007, Professor Wang has been the Visiting Professor of Stanford Bing Overseas Campus in Beijing.

Professor Wang worked on the drafting of the Chinese Anti-Security Fraud Regulation, provided legal consultative opinions for Chinese Security Law, Copyright Law and many separate criminal regulations and participated in the preliminary work for the drafting of the Chinese Criminal Code of 1997.

By the end of 2007, Prof. Wang has published twenty textbooks, monographs, translation books either under his own authorship or as an editor, some of which are published by foreign publishing houses such as Kluwer International in Holland and some have won national prizes. In addition, Prof. Wang has numerous articles published, many of which are written in English and German and published in the law journals in Europe, United States, Germany, Poland, Great Britain as well as Chinese Taiwan. His articles have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Russian.

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Xixin Wang

Dr. Xixin Wang is a Professor of Law of Peking University Law School. Professor Wang received his Bachelor’s Degree of Law from South Central Institute of Political Science and Law in 1990, and his LL.M and LL.D from Peking University Law School in 1996 and 1999 respectively. From early 1998 through May 1999, Professor Wang served as a Senior Research Fellow in The Center for Chinese Legal Studies of Columbia University School of Law, and then joined the Law School of Peking University in July 1999. He has also been a Fellow of the China Law Center of Yale Law School since August 2003.

Professor Wang has been involving in China’s administrative law reforms for many years. Since 1999, he has served as a working member of China Administrative Legislative Research Group, an academic team advising China’s NPC Standing Committee Legal Affairs Working Commission on administrative law reforms. Since 2001, Professor Wang has been a major drafter of China’s Administrative Procedure Act. Professor Wang has been a Research Consultant for the NPC Standing Committee General Office since 2002, and Vice Chairman of Beijing Administrative Law Society since 2005.

Professor Wang is recognized as a scholarly activist. In addition to his deep involvement in government initiated law reform programs, Professor Wang founded the Center for Public Participation Studies and Supports (CPPSS), the very first non-government organization dedicated to advocating public participation and providing supports to disadvantaged groups of people in law and policy making process. Professor Wang has been the Director of CPPSS since 2003.

Professor Wang’s research fields cover topics of administrative procedure, public participation, rulemaking, and comparative administrative law studies. He is the author of two well recognized books and some 40 journal articles published in China and the United States. In addition, Professor Wang also presented papers and talks in many academic forums, including Columbia Law School, Yale Law School, The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholarship, and Carnige Endowment for International Peace.

Professor Yan Wang

Hello! My name is Wang Yan. I have been a Chinese language instructor at Peking University since 1998. My field of specialization is the Theory of Chinese as a second language. I'm also interested in Chinese culture, Chinese history.

I taught Stanford students in 2006 and 2007 as a visiting scholar in Stanford. I also taught Stanford students for Stanford Beijing Program on the previous spring quarter. I am deeply impressed by Stanford students. They were clever and diligent. I am looking forward to teaching the new Stanford students in Beijing for the coming autumn quarter.

Professor Dongmei Zhao

Instructor for Discovering Modern Chinese History in Beijing (Spring 2007)
Associate Professor, History Department, Peking University

Prof. Zhao received her degrees from Peking University (B.A. in history in 1992, M.A. in history in 1995, Ph.D. in history in 1998). From 1998 on, she has been teaching and studying at Peking University. Her one-year's absence was spent as a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College of Oxford University in 2004-2005.

Prof. Zhao specializes in the history of China from the Late Tang dynasty to the early Song (late 9th Century to mid-11th Century). Her focus is on the fate of military groups determined by the specific political and cultural structure during the Tang-Song transformation.

Her publications include: The Absence of Heroism: the Military Recruitment Examination and the Military Schools in Chinese History (Beijing: Jiefangjun Press, 2000), a series of papers, and two translations: Branches of Heaven: A History of Sung Imperial Clan (by John Chaffee, Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Press, 2005) and China Turning Inward: The Intellectual and Political Changes in the 12th Century (By James T. C. Liu, Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Press, 2002).

Prof. Zhao's course offerings at Peking University include: A Survey of Chinese History, Daily Life in Ancient China, Intensive Reading of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government (in Chinese), and Understanding Contemporary China (in English, for students from Skidmore College, N.Y.)

Professor Zhao looks forward to working with excellent students from Stanford.

 

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Professor Yun Zhou

Yun Zhou is a full professor in Department of Sociology at Peking University. She received her Ph.D in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Arizona State University in 1993, M.A. in International Area Studies from Brigham Young University in 1987, and her B.A. in Japanese literature and language from Shangdong University in 1982. Professor Zhou’s research interests are population and society, sex ratio, women and elderly, social gerontology and qualitative research method. Professor Zhou published numerous articles in both international and Chinese academic journals. Currently, she also teaches population and society in East Asia for Stanford Overseas Studies Program in Beijing, China.

Professor Xiaoya Zhu

Hi, I’m Zhu Xiaoya. I’m an associate professor at the Peking University International College for Chinese Language Studies. I was awarded a PhD.in linguistics from Fudan University in 1999, a M.A. in linguistics from East China Normal University in 1994, and a B.A. in Chinese language and literature from Xuzhou Normal University in 1991. My field of specialization is the grammar of Modern Chinese.

I taught Chinese language at Stanford 2007-2008 and what impressed me most were the students who were very diligent and cooperative. I’m sure I will spend happy time with you.

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