East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society

Distance Learning Tutors (Chinese Studies)

Professor Tim Wright, BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge)
Chairman of the School of East Asian Studies, 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.
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Dr 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.
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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.
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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 .
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Professor Yonghua Cui, MA (Peking University, China)
Telephone interview tutor for Chinese language for students based in China, E. Asia He is Professor of Chinese Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture at University, China. His teaching experience includes teaching Chinese language at many different levels and environments (University of Sheffield, University of Goettingen, Germany and Middlebery College, USA etc.) and Chinese Linguistics, pedagogy of teaching Chinese as a second language. His research interests include Chinese grammar, pedagogy teaching Chinese as a second language, Chinese information processing.
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.
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Dr Hugo Dobson, BA, MA (Leeds), PhD (Sheffield)
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 Dobson is on leave from DL duties from Sept 2005 – end Aug 2008. Cover during this period: Please contact Hiroko Takeda for the Unit “Political Economy” within the module, Perspectives on Contemporary Japanese Society, and Mr Bhubhindar Singh as tutor for the module International Political Economy of East Asia.

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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).
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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.
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Dr Xiaoling Hu, MA, PhD (Durham)
Dr Hu is tutor for Chinese I and II and Intensive Chinese I and II. In-house she teaches Chinese language and her research interests include syntactic theory, syntactic typology, historical linguistics, Chinese linguistics, and Chinese grammar
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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 Matanle is currently on special leave (2004-7). Andy Staples is tutor for the above module in his absence.

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Mr Bhubhindar Singh, BA Hons (National University of Singapore), Msc (Reading)
From Sept 2005, Bhubhindar Singh has been covering for Hugo Dobson, as tutor for the module International Political Economy of East Asia. He is researching for a PhD (Sheffield), with a focus on Japanese post-Cold War security policy and Japan's bilateral relations in East Asia. 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 and Southeast Asian politics, and taught at SAFTI Military Institute (Singapore's Military Academy) on Southeast Asian security. Singh has been Teaching Assistant for Prof Hook for a number of in-house modules previously. His research interests include Japan's security policy and international politics of Southeast Asia.
Mr Andrew Staples, BA (Exeter) MSc (Sheffield)
Andrew Staples is working as Lecturer in Japanese Studies, acting as tutor for PCJS: Business and Economy; and co-tutor for CBIR East Asia Business Environment, while Peter Matanle is on special leave. He is currently completing his PhD thesis on the Political Economy of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia funded by JFEC/Daiwa PhD grant and MEXT Research Scholarship (Hitotsubashi University 2001-2003). A former JET participant (1996-1999), he returned to the UK to study for the MSc East Asian Business degree and later enrolled as a research student. His research interests include Japanese corporate investment strategy, Japan’s role in the East Asian political economy, Globalisation and East Asian regionalism, and privatisation in Japan. He is acting module tutor for The East Asian Business Environment while J Cherry is on study leave.
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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.
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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).