CAO Jin is a Professor in the Journalism School, Fudan University and Associate Director of the Center for International Publishing Studies. She was a Visiting Scholar at Yale University in 2005. Professor Cao's expertise is in critical communication theory and media sociology. In the past eight years, she has conducted fieldwork and gathered first hand materials on the situation of the underground media in Mainland China. She has also explored how marginalized or minority groups use the media to participate and mobilize social movements such as the AIDS Prevention Campaign, thereby capturing the development of grassroots classes. Her major publications include the book Media and Gender Studies: Theories and Cases, and a series articles including 'The Production of an Alternative Media in Mainland China--A Case Study of the Journal Friend Exchange' (in Communication and Society), 'A Case Study of the Lesbian Health Hotline in a Peripheral Chinese City' and 'The Copyright Trade in Post-Colonial Context: A Case Study in a Science and Technology Publishing House in Shanghai'. She is also co-editor-in-chief (with Zhao Yuezhi) of the English-book The Political Economy of Communication: A Reader.

CHEUNG Lik-Kwan (Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong) is currently an instructor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Research Centre for Foreign Sinology (Chinese Literature) of Soochow University. His research interests include Chinese Leftist writers, Western Marxism and the culture of globalization. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting Scholar, Dr. Cheung will be working on a project titled 'Spatial Imagination and Cultural Politics in Chinese Leftist Writers' Travel Writings'.

FENG Xiaocai is Professor of Chinese History at Fudan University. His focus is in twentieth century Chinese history, with a particular emphasis on integrating political, social and economic history. His interests include the interaction of politics and business, nationalism, political mobilization and mass movement, native identities and voluntary associations. He is the author of Merchant movement in The North Expedition, 1924-1930 (Taiwan Commercial Press, 2004) and Business is Business: The Merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province in Changing Politics (Shanghai Academy of Social Science Press, 2004).

GAO Fengfeng (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is an associate professor at Peking University. He is mainly interested in biblical interpretation of Latin patristic writers as well as the transformation of classical tradition in early Christianity. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he is currently undertaking research on Virgil's Aeneid, with particular emphasis on the political and religious contexts of the epic.

HAN Joon is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Social Sciences, Yonsei University, Korea. His research interests include social organizations and institutions, cultural and educational aspects of social inequality, and creativity in artistic and intellectual fields. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the evolution of the Japanese banking system. He recently published a book on institutional confidence in South Korea (Hallym University Press, 2008, in Korean). He has published numerous articles in European Sociological Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Management Science as well as in Korean academic journals. He is currently working on the pre-colonial and colonial origins of Korean modern organizational models.

HU Suhua (Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, Central University for Nationalities, China), is currently Professor at the Institute for Chinese Minority Languages, Minzu University of China (formerly Central University for Nationalities). Her research interests include linguistic typology theories, syntax theories, and Yi-Burmese (Lolo-Burmese) group languages. She is also interested in Yi culture, oral history and genealogy. She has been working on both contemporary Yi language and classical Yi. Dr. Hu has extensive fieldwork experience and has conducted research on Burmese in Myanmar (Burma) and Akhanese in Thailand, which are both important languages of Lolo-Burmese group. She grew up in a traditional Yi family (her Yi name in Chinese characters is 罗洪依乌嫫)and her mother tongue is Yi. During her stay at HYI, Dr. Hu will be working on linguistic characteristics of the Yi classical scripture (指路经). Her Harvard faculty partner is Professor C.-T. James Huang (Department of Linguistics).

IKOMA Natsumi (Ph.D., University of Durham, UK, Kyoto University, Japan) is Senior Associate Professor at International Christian University, Tokyo. She has taught courses on British literature, feminist theories, and gender & sexuality studies. Her research interests include narrative monstrosity and representation of abject bodies in a comparative context. Dr. Ikoma published her first monologue, ?Desiring Stories?, in 2007, which focused on monstrous women depicted in British and Japanese literature. At HYI, Dr. Ikoma will be working on literature on terror, focusing on recent criminal cases and terrorist attacks in Japan and in the US, including 9/11.

ITAGAKI Ryuta is associate professor of the Department of Sociology at Doshisha University, Japan. Professor Itagaki studies the social history of modern and contemporary Korea, and is the author of Historical Ethnography of Modern Korea : Colonial Experience in Sangju, Kyeongbuk, based on fieldwork in South Korea. While at the Harvard-Yenching Institute his research topic is the social history of brewing in modern Korea.

KIM Sung Ho (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997) teaches political philosophy and constitutional theory at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). He was previously a professor of political science at the University of California and Williams College. His studies in German political thought have been published as Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2004/2007). Constitutionalism and democratic theories are his recent research concerns. At HYI, he will focus on a comparative-constitutional investigation of how liberal-democratic constitutionalism was transplanted, or 'imposed' in the parlance of late, under the US military tutelage in occupied Japan (1946) and postcolonial Korea (1948).

KUONG Teilee (Ph.D. Nagoya University) is associate professor at Nagoya University Center for Asian Legal Exchange. His academic interests are in the areas of international economic law, comparative law, international cooperation in promoting the rule of law, and recent legal and political developments in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has recently written on the issues of legal education, international cooperation in promoting legal reform in Cambodia and the development of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. At Harvard, he intends to develop a research project on comparative conceptual development of ownership in Cambodia, China and Vietnam.

LEE Sung Yup (D.Litt., Kyoto University) is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities (Zinbunken), Kyoto University. His main field is the political history of Japanese colonialism, especially the interrelationships among the political activities of Japanese residents in Colonial Korea, the Government General?s reaction to such activities, as well as the collaboration and/or opposition of Korean elites. During his stay at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he plans to undertake a historical analysis of the interrelationship between the Japanese Imperial Diet and colonial Korea.

LU Hongliang (Ph.D., Sichuan University, China) is Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University. He has been a research assistant at the Center for Chinese Archaeology and Art, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2003-2006), and has actively participated in archaeological surveys and excavations in the highlands of western Sichuan, Tibet and Southeast Asia. His research is focused on the prehistory of southwest China, especially on Tibet. During his year at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Lu will conduct research on 'The Transition from the Neolithic to Bronze Age in the highlands of western Sichuan.'

SATO Masayuki (Ph.D., Leiden University, the Netherlands) is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University. In 2003, he published a monograph titled The Confucian Quest for Order: the Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xunzi. His areas of research include early Chinese political philosophy with a focus on Xunzi (ca. 316-235 BCE), and modern Japanese research on Chinese philosophy. During his stay at HYI, Dr. Sato will examine the methods and main perspectives in Xunzi studies by Western scholars, and the possibility of the reconstruction of Confucian theory for self-cultivation by re-evaluating rituals and social norms (li) as a key concept.

WANG Wei (Ph.D., Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) is currently Assistant Research Fellow and Journal Editor at the Institute of Linguistics, CASS. He has been working on the temporal system of the Chinese language compared to Indo-European languages. His current focus is on the metaphoric contrasts in temporal construal of spatial concepts between Chinese and English and the ramifications on their respective tense/aspect system. He is also interested in the evolution of contemporary Chinese language, particularly the period when it was under the impact of translation literature at the turn of the 20th century.

WU Xiaohong is Professor at the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, and a member of Chinese Archaeological Society and Chinese ICCOMOS, et al. She has been a principal researcher for the State Key Project ?The Origins of Chinese Civilization and Early Development ?Chronological Research between 3500BC-1500BC?. During her year as a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Wu will be working on 'Cultural Change in Ancient China :the tempo of transitions in the formative period', in cooperation with Professors Ofer Bar-Yosef and Rowan Flad in the Department of Anthropolgy, Harvard University.