CHEN Jeng-Guo (Ph.D., Edinburgh University, UK) is currently an Assistant Research Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He has been working on the Scottish Enlightenment and its intellectual ramifications in British colonialism since he commenced a graduate study in 1995. Dr. Chen is also interested in modern literature of sociology and historiography. He is right now undertaking a comparative study of the British and Chinese enlightenment thoughts, especially of a set of ideas of modernity, including civil society, progress, revolution, equality, democracy and others.

FANG Cheng-hua (Ph.D., Brown University) had been teaching in National Jinan University before moving to National Taiwan University. His field of specialty is ancient Chinese history, especially the period from the seventh to the thirteenth century. The civil-military relationship during the Tang/Song period has been the primary issue of his Ph.D. dissertation. During the year at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Fang will be working on the development of the civil service examination system from the Tang to Song dynasty.

GENG Liuna (Ph.D., Beijing Normal University, China) is an Associate Professor of psychology at Nanjing University, China. Her areas of interest include human resource, cognitive development and mental health. The project she proposed for her research at the Harvard-Yenching Institute is "Cognitive Strategies for Mathematics in Neurophysiological and Cultural Context."

GUO Wu (Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has been one of the archaeological members in Xinjiang team of Borderland Nationality and Religion Research Center. His research is focused on the Archaeological studies of Xinjiang, Eurasian steppes and the Silk Road. During the year at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Guo will be working on "Interactions within Xinjiang and Its Frontier Regions from the Thirteenth to the Third Century B.C.".

HU Jixun (Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) is currently an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute this academic year, Dr. Hu will be working on a project titled "Hanlin Academicians in mid-Ming (1488-1521) China".

HUANG Yijun (Ph.D., Peking University, China) is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China. The research project she is currently working on focuses on the Tang-Song transition from the discoveries of the Song tombs in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangzi River.

JEONG Jong-Ho is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Korea. His Ph.D. dissertation and subsequent publications have focused on restructuring the state-society relations in contemporary urban China. His most recent work was published in Asian Survey 48:3 (May/June 2008). He is currently writing a book on China's post-reform floating population (liudong renkou) based on his fieldwork on Zhejiangcun, the largest migrant settlement in Beijing. His research interests include social change and stratification, internal and international migration, social capital and native-place

KOGACHI Ryuichi (Ph.D., University of Tokyo, Japan) is an Associate Professor of Kyoto University, Japan. He had worked for the Institute for Humanity (Zinbunken) in Kyoto University as a research associate and taught at Chiba University before coming back to Kyoto University in 2006. His main field is the thought of Chinese classics and exegetics on them, especially commentary works on Confucian canons in the Sui-Tang period. He published his first monograph "Scholarship in Medieval China" in 2006, and in 2008, he translated "Gushu Tongli" written by Yu Jiaxi, the great scholar in modern China. He is currently studying Liu Xuan, the most powerful Confucian commentator in the Sui period.

LIANG Yiyu (Ph.D., National Taiwan University, Taiwan) is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University. The research project he proposed for his stay at the Harvard-Yenching Institute is on the phenomenology of perception and self-Consciousness.

PARK Jung-Ku (Ph.D., National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics, at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, SungKyunKwan University, Korea. His research is primarily concerned with syntax, morphology and semantics. His interests include various topics in Chinese linguistics such as the classification of and the relationship among parts of speech, compound formation, word order change and grammaticalization, language typology, etc. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will be conducting research on the relationship between the synchronic system and diachronic change in Chinese.

SHI Bin is a Professor of International Relations at the School of International Studies, Nanjing University, China. He is also teaching at the History Department and the Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Centre for Chinese and American Studies. His areas of interest include international history since 1945, international security, and international ethics. While at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will be working on "Ethics of International Intervention: a comparative study on the ethical traditions between China and the West".

TANG Wenming (Ph.D., Peking University, China) is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. While at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Tang will be conducting a research project titled "Politics without Enemies: Ethical Boundaries between the Self and others in Early Confucianism."

WEI Chaoyong (Ph.D., Sun Yat-Sen University, China) is an Associate Professor of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. His areas of research include Chinese literature and Chinese philosophy. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute this academic year, he is doing research on "political fiction" of late Qing China.

WU Fengshi (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park) is currently teaching as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting Scholar for the academic year 2008-09, Dr. Wu will be working on a project titled "Persuading and Engaging the State: Political Relevance of International Non-Government Organizations in China."

XU Yawen (Ph.D., Wuhan University, China) earned his doctoral degree in Law. His field of specialty is Constitutional Law. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting Scholar, Dr. Xu will be doing research on the cross-cultural dispute resolution.

XU Yongming is an Associate Professor at the institute of Chinese Classical Literature and Culture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. His research interest focuses on Chinese classical literature from Yuan to Ming Dynasties. During his year at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will be doing research on Neo-Confucianism (Lixue) and Literature in South China in the Late Yuan and early Ming dynasties as well as the study of the Chinese ancient drama in Western countries.

YANG Shu-Yuan (Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research interests include anthropological theories, Christianity, socio-cultural change, kinship and the concept of the person, historical memory, the state and cultural politics. Dr. Yang has extensive fieldwork experiences, and conducted research among the Bunun, an Austronesian-speaking indigenous people of Taiwan, and the Bugkalot (Ilongot) of Northern Luzon, Philippines. She has published several articles, both in Chinese and in English, about the Bunun. During her stay at Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Yang will focus her research on the processes of Christianization and socio-cultural change among the Bugkalot (Ilongot) to show how they engage with and conceptualize modernity.

YANG Zhefeng (Ph.D., Peking University, China) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Peking University. The research project he proposed for his stay at the Harvard-Yenching Institute is titled "Suddenly or gradually? An Archaeological Study of the Cultural Change in the Frontier Regions of the Han Empire".

YI Sang-Wook (Ph.D., University of London, UK) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Hanyang University, Korea. Dr. Yi was trained in both history and Philosophy of science, and published papers in both fields. He will spend the year at the Harvard-Yenching Institute conducting research on East Asian Nanoscape: Culture, Economy and Politics.

ZHANG Changhong (Ph.D., Sichuan University, China) is currently a Lecturer at the School of History and Culture, Sichuan University. She has been actively participating in archaeological surveys and excavations in Tibet, through which numerous Buddhist sites were discovered. Her research interests are focused on the caving paintings in western Tibet (A Li), especially those of the earlier period (c.10-13th Century). At the Institute this year, she is conducting a research project on the artistic style and iconography of the early painting in western Tibet.

ZHANG Kan (Ph.D., Xiamen University, China) is currently an Associate Professor of History Department, Xiamen University. His research interests focus on the economic history of Modern China. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Zhang will be conducting research on overseas capital flow and the transformation of local society of Southeast China.

ZHANG Wenjun is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Zhejiang University, China. Her research interests include curriculum theories, the discourse of international curriculum studies, education and curriculum in the context of globalization. The project she proposed for her research stay at the Harvard-Yenching Institute is titled "Confucianism and Curriculum Reform in China: From a Perspective of Social Capital Theories".

ZHU Xufeng (Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China) is an Associate Professor at Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, China. His research focuses on the policy process, think tanks, and social stratification in China. His recent and forthcoming publications include articles in Social Sciences in China (in Chinese), Public Administration and Development, Policy Sciences, Asian Survey, etc. While at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will be working on a project about "China's Think Tanks in the Policy-Making Process."

BIAN Dongbo (Ph.D., Nanjing University, China) is teaching in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University, and also a Research Fellow of the Institute for Oversea Chinese Classics at Nanjing University. From October 2002 to April 2003, he studied at David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, doing research on Samuel Wells Williams and the Origin of American Sinology: A study of The Middle Kingdom. His research focuses on Classical Chinese Literature, especially in the Tang and Song periods, and comparative literature composed in Chinese among the pre-modern Eastern Asia community.

JIANG Tong (Ph.D., Capital Normal University) is an Associate Professor at the English Department of the Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. He is a visiting fellow for the Special Program in Comparative Literature and World Literature, under the supervision of Professor Stephen Owen. During his research stay, he will be working on a project titled "Translating Modernity in Chinese Literature: from Yan Fu and Lin Shu to Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren".

LIANG Zhao (Ph.D., Sichuan University, China) is a Lecturer at the Department of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, China. She is currently a visiting scholar of the special Program in Comparative Literature and World Literature. Dr. Liang's research interests include the transmission and transformation of Chinese myths and legends as well as contemporary personal literary writings with multicultural background.

MA Xiaolu is currently a master student in Comparative Literature and World Literature at Peking University, China. Her research interests include Auto/biography and world literature, especially in 20th century autobiographies in Russian émigré literature.