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Research Staff: Research Fellows and Research Associates

 
 
 
 
 

 

Dr. CHEN Gang  (陈 刚)

 

Education Background
PhD (Contemporary International Relations), China Foreign Affairs University, 2006
MA (Contemporary International Relations), China Foreign Affairs University, 2001

BA (English), China Foreign Affairs University, 1998

 

Research Interests

China's Political Economy

Environmental Governance in China

International Relations

Transnational Cooperation against Climate Change

 
 

 

Dr. Chen Gang is Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Since he joined the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China's environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively about the sustainable development of China. He is the single author of China's Climate Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), Politics of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009) and The Kyoto Protocol and International Cooperation against Climate Change (in Chinese) (Beijing: Xinhua Press, 2008). His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as The International Spectator, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He has also contributed a number of book chapters on China's environmental governance, natural disaster management and climate change politics to edited volumes published by Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield and other scholarly publishers. His research interests include China's domestic politics, foreign policy, environmental governance and energy policy. He is frequently interviewed by media such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, CNBC, the BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency.    

 

     List of Publications

 

Tel: (65) 6516 4181

E-mail: eaicg@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

Dr. CHIANG Min-Hua (江敏華)

 

Education Background
PhD (International Political Economy), Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble-II), 2008

Master (International Political Economy), Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble-II), 2004

Master (International Business Economics), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2002

Bachelor (International Trade), Shin Chien University, Taiwan, 2000

 

Research Interests

International Political Economy
Taiwan's Development

East Asia's Economic Integration

US-Taiwan-China Relationships

Global Imbalance

US Hegemony

 
 

 

Min-Hua Chiang was awarded a doctorate in International Political Economy with distinction (Très honorable avec félicitations) from the Université Pierre-Mendès-France in Grenoble, France in 2008. Her research interests include economic integration between the US and East-Asia, Taiwan's economic development, Cross-Strait economic relations and Tourism economics.

 

Before joining EAI, she was involved in the research project, "The Current Situation in the South China Sea Region and Taiwan's New Strategic Thinking" at the Institute of International Relations, Chengchi University. She then joined the Taiwan External Trade Development Council where she was responsible for Indonesian market research. She was later involved in Taiwan and global service sectors' research when she was at Commerce Development Research Institute.

 

Tel: (65) 6516 1673

E-mail: eaicmh@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

Dr. Alistair David Blair COOK

 

Education Background
Ph.D. (International Relations), University of Melbourne, 2008

M.A. (Political Science), Purdue University, 2004

M.A. (Hons.) (International Relations), University of St. Andrews, 2002

 

Research Interests

Asia - Pacific international relations, particularly non-traditional security issues.

 

Dr. Alistair D. B. Cook is Visiting Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of St Andrews, Master of Arts from Purdue University and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne.

 

He has taught at Purdue University, University of Melbourne, Deakin University, and Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are geographically focused on the Asia - Pacific and thematically focused on non-traditional security issues notably the root causes of internal conflict and international responses. His research covers the relations between China and Southeast Asia (ASEAN), and in particular the political development of Myanmar. He has co-edited a book titled 'Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues, Challenges and Frameworks for Action' and has published in International Politics, Peace Review, Journal of Defense Management, and Southeast Asian Studies, a Quarterly Journal of Translation (南洋资料译丛).

 

     List of Publications

 

Tel: (65) 6516 8334

E-mail: eaicadb@nus.edu.sg

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AlistairDBCook

Twitter: @beancook

 

 

 

 

Dr. LIANG Bin  (梁 斌)

 

Education Background
PhD (School of Justice Studies), Arizona State University, 2003

J.D., Arizona State University, 2003

M.S., Arizona State University, 1997

B.A., Foreign Affairs College, Beijing, 1995

 

Research Interests

Law and society

Globalization

Comparative legal systems

Chinese legal system

Crime & deviance

 

     List of Publications

 

Tel: (65) 6516 3714

E-mail: eailb@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

Dr. QI Dongtao  祁冬涛

 

Education Background
PhD (Sociology), Stanford University, 2009

MA (Sociology), Stanford University, 2003

MA (Sociology), Peking University, 2002

BA (Info Science & Business Mgt), Nankai University, 1995

 

Research Interests

Dynamic Relations Between State and Political Movements in China and Taiwan.

Changes in the Social Base of the Taiwan Independence Movement.

Chinese Peasants' Collective Resistance in Post-Mao Rural China.

Overseas Chinese and Taiwan Nationalism.

Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan.

 
 

 

Dr. Qi Dongtao obtained his double B.A. in information resources management and business management from Nankai University, M.A. in sociology from Beijing University, and Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University. His research covers both mainland China and Taiwan with a focus on social movements, nationalism, and state-society relations. He published a Chinese paper on peasants' political participation in rural China, a Chinese book chapter on the relations between social structures and individual political orientations, and edited a Chinese book on peasants, agriculture and rural society in the reform era. His paper on Losheng Sanatorium's Preservation Movement in Taiwan is forthcoming in a textbook for Chinese NGO leaders. He is now revising his dissertation chapters for journal publication. The dissertation, titled The Taiwan Independence Movement In Power: The Dilemmas of A Movement Government has a movement-government framework to explain why and how the DPP government gradually lost popular support from 2000 to 2008.

 

Tel: (65) 6516 3522

E-mail: eaiqd@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. QIAN Jiwei  (钱继伟)


Education Background

PhD in Economics, National University of Singapore, 2010

M.Sc. in Development Economics, University of London, 2003

B.S. in Computer Science, Fudan University, 1998

 

Research Interests

Chinese Health System

Health Economics

Political Economy

Development Economics

 

 
 

Qian Jiwei obtained his B.Sc. in computer science from Fudan University, China and M.Sc.in Development Economics from the School of Oriental Africa Studies, University of London. He got his Ph.D degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore.  His research interests include health economics, political economy and development economics.

 

Tel: (65) 6516 4178

E-mail: eaiqj@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

Dr. SHAN Wei  单 伟

 

Education Background
PhD (Political Science), Texas A & M University, 2007
MA (International Politics), Peking University, 2000

BA (International Politics), Peking University, 1997

 

Research Interests

Citizen-Elite Relations

Political Attitudes and Behaviour

Political Development

 
 

 

Shan Wei received his BA and MA in International Studies from Peking University and PhD in Political Science from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the political behaviour of citizens and elite in the context of political and economic development. Topics he has covered include Chinese citizens' political participation, changes in political culture, mass-elite relations, political leadership, and factional politics within elite group. He is the co-editor of a book and the author of several journal articles and book chapters.

 

Tel: (65) 6516 4176

E-mail: eaisw@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

Dr. TSENG Hui-Yi  曾蕙逸

 

Education Background
Doctor of Juridical Science, University of Wisconsin, 2010

L.L.M., New York University School of Law, 2003

L.L.M., University of Cambridge, 2002

L.L.B., National Chengchi University, 2001

 

Research Interests

Chinese Anti-Dumping Regulations and WTO Trade Remedy Law

WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure

International Commercial Arbitration and Chinese Commercial Arbitration

Trade & Environmental Conflict in WTO Systems

Public International Law

 
 

 

Dr. Hui-Yi Katherine Tseng pursued international legal studies in UK and US. She had also attended short-term training programmes in international trade law issues in Geneva and Berne in Switzerland. Tseng was also a part of the negotiation team for Taiwanese Authority in WTO issues. Her doctoral thesis deals with the frictions between international trade dispute settlement mechanism as established in WTO and that in multilateral environmental agreements, like the International Commission for Conservation of Atlantic Tuna. Tseng focuses on Chinese international law practices and its future role in influencing the development of the international legal order.    

 

Tel: (65) 6516 1626

E-mail: eaithy@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

Dr. YANG Lijun  杨丽君)

Education Background

PhD (Sociology), Hitotsubashi University, Japan, 2002
M.A. (International Studies), Yokohama University, Japan, 1999
Graduate Studies in Media, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, 1997

B.A. (Media Studies), The Communication University of China (formerly Beijing Broadcasting College), 1990

 

Research Interests

Contemporary Chinese Politics and Society

Social Change and Popular Culture in China

Social Change and Social Movements

Women's political participation in China

Politics, Society and Media in China

 

 
 

 

Dr Yang Lijun obtained her BA degree in Media Studies from the Communication University of China (formerly Beijing Broadcasting College), M.A. in international studies from the Yokohama City University of Japan, and Ph.D. in Sociology from the Hitotsubashi University of Japan. Her research interests include China's cultural revolution, social movements, women's political participation in China, and nationalism in China and Japan. She has published widely in different languages, including Japanese, Chinese and English. Her articles have appeared in refereed journals such as The China Quarterly, The Review of History (Japan), Asian Studies (Japan) and Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences. Her book Social Structure and the Cultural Revolution in China: Citizenship and Collective Violence (in Japanese, Ochanomizu Shobo, 2003) received the Ohira Memorial Foundation Award, 2005, as one of the four best books on humanities and social sciences in the Asian Pacific in the year. Besides her academic research, she has also contributed to newspapers from time to time.

 

     List of Publications

 

Tel: (65) 6516 6659

E-mail: eaiyl@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

Dr. YEW Chiew Ping  游秋萍

 

Education Background
PhD (Political Science), National University of Singapore, 2009
MA (English Studies), National University of Singapore, 2003

MA (International Relations), The Flinders University of South Australia, 2002

BA, National University of Singapore, 1994

 

Research Interests

The Politics of Land Use Conversion in China

Development and Democratization in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore

 
 

 

Yew Chiew Ping obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from the National University of Singapore in 2009. Her ongoing research interests include the politics of land use conversion in China, transnational activism for the Tibet cause, as well as comparative development and democratisation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Currently, she is involved in an inter-disciplinary research project - "The Impact of Land Rights on Sustainable Urbanization in China" - funded by the NUS Global Asia Institute.

 

Her article "Explaining Land Use Change in a Guangdong County - The Supply Side of the Story" is forthcoming in The China Quarterly, subject to editorial input by Cambridge University Press (© Cambridge University Press).  [click here to read more on this article]

 

     List of Publications

 

Tel: (65) 6516 4180

E-mail: eaiycp@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

Dr. YU Hong  余 虹

 

Education Background
PhD (Economics), University of Sheffield, 2008
MSc (Political Economy of East Asia), University of Sheffield, 2005

MSc (International Business Management), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2004

Bachelor in Finance, Guangdong Commercial College, 2003

 

Research Interests

Regional Economic Growth in General and Spatial Inequality, Poverty and Human Development

Economic Geography and Political Economy of China and other Regions in East Asia

 
 

 

Dr Hong YU obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Sheffield in 2008. His research interests lie in the field of regional economic development in China. He also has a parallel interest in the areas of industrial development and political economy of China. He is the single author of the book Economic Development and Inequality in China: The Case of Guangdong (Routledge, London and New York: 2010). He co-edited the book China's Industrial Development in the 21st Century (World Scientific, Singapore, 2011). He is also the author of five book chapters. His research articles have appeared in international journals such as East Asia, Asian Politics & Policy, and East Asian Policy.

 

Tel: (65) 6516 7810

E-mail: eaiyuh@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

Dr. ZHANG Yanxia  张艳霞


Education Background

Ph.D (Social Policy), University of Oxford, 2009

M.Sc. (Comparative Social Policy), University of Oxford, 2003

M.A. (Sociology), Peking University, 2001

B.A. (Sociology), Peking University, 1995

 

Research Interests

Social Policy

Sociology of Family

Social Stratification & Gender

Economic Sociology

 

 
 

 

Dr. Zhang Yanxia is Visiting Research Fellow at East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Prior to that, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She studies social policy and obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Oxford. Her main research interests include Chinese social welfare reform, comparative social policy (China and East Asian countries; China and East European countries), poverty and social security, gender and development, marriage and family.  She has contributed to a number of journal articles and book chapters, and is currently editing a special issue for the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.

 

Tel: (65) 6516 4177

E-mail: eaizyx@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. ZHOU Zhihua  周志华


Education Background

PhD (Housing Development Analysis), University of Sheffield, 2010

MSc (Development Economics), University of Sheffield, 2005

 

Research Interests

Policy Research on Housing-related issues in political, economic and social contexts in Contemporary China.

Measuring the performance of sustainable Construction in China.

Comparative Analysis on the institutional changes in housing under different regimes: cases in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

 

Tel: (65) 6516 3903

E-mail: eaizhouz@nus.edu.sg

 

 

   

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