China

Karen Armstrong

Course Director, Faculty of Education

Leadership and community engagement; youth development; and digital learning

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Preet S. Aulakh

Professor of Strategy and International Business and
Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University

Asian business systems; comparative state capitalism; emerging markets; Asian business groups

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Margaret Boittin

Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Criminal law; international and comparative law; human rights; China; empirical methods; prostitution; human trafficking

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Joshua A. Fogel

Canada Research Chair, History of Modern China
Professor, Department of History, York University

Cultural and political Sino-Japanese relations; China; Japan

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Margo Gewurtz

Professor, Department of Humanities, York University

Sino-Western cultural relations; missionaries in East Asia; China

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Pietro Giordan

Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Chinese literature; comparative literature; aesthetics; drama and theatre studies

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Jay Goulding

Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University

Chinese and Japanese philosophy; hermeneutics; phenomenology; China; Japan

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Susan J. Henders

Associate Professor, Department of Politics, York University

Minority territorial autonomy arrangements; territorial politics; human rights; minority rights and the arts; Canada-Asia relations; China; Hong Kong; Tibet

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Lianrui Jia

Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Culture, York University

Media policy and regulation; Internet; China; Canada

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Joan Judge

Professor, Department of History, York University

Chinese cultural history; print and visual culture; women's and gender history; quotidian knowledge and everyday epistemologies; digital humanities

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Chenxin (Vonnie) Li

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Concepts of feminine beauty in China, cosmetic surgery, health

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Lucia Lo

Professor, Department of Geography, York University

Chinese diaspora; immigrant settlement and integration; settlement services; identity and consumption; ethnic economy; ethnic banks; highly skilled migration

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Jia Ma

Associate Profesor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Modern Chinese literature; Chinese North American diasporic literature; Chinese history; Christian cultural influences on Chinese literature; China; Chinese Diaspora

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Colin McGuire

External Research Associate

Martial arts music; lion dance; kung fu; ethnomusicology; performance ethnography; Chinese diaspora; identity; embodiment, intertextuality

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Jean Michel Montsion

Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University
Acting Director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies

Gateway cities; ethnicity; international education; Indigeneity; Singapore, Vancouver

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Noa Nahmias

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University

Modern Chinese history; history of science; knowledge production; material culture; print culture

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Glen Norcliffe

Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Geography, York University

Critical geographies of industry, trade and development; performing the economy; geographical construction of technology; dispossession in extractive regions

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Hsin-Yun Peng

Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, York University

Chinese LGBTQ individuals; migration; life strategy; gender equality; career planning

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Olesya Pogorelova

Masters Student, Graduate Programme in Development Studies

Economic, political and socail development in communist and post-Soviet states; Russia; China

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Dalton Rawcliffe

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History

Transnationalism; Maoism; Cultural Revolution; Britain; China; Hong Kong; Cold War; propaganda

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Rick Sin

School of Social Work

Chinese Diasporas; Human Rights Advocacy; Transnational Social Movements; Critical Social Work

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Bernard Wolf

Professor Emeritus, Economics, Schulich School of Business, York University
Associate Director, IMBA Program, Schulich School of Business, York University

International trade and finance; multinational enterprises; strategic alliances; economic integration; trade/investment liberalization; East Asia; China; Korea; Japan

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Keefer Wong

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Neoliberal ideologies; globalization; social change; knowledge production; diaspora; “identities;” transnationalism; political economy; critical theory; China

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Wendy S. Wong

Associate Professor, Department of Design, York University

Chinese visual cultural history; Chinese consumer society, design and identity; Hong Kong; Taiwan; China

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Yuk-Lin Renita Wong

Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Mindfulness; contemplative pedagogy; spirituality and social justice; critical social work; embodied learning and decolonization; China; Hong Kong

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Cary Wu

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Political sociology, migration, urban studies

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Xueqing Xu

Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Chinese-Canadian literature; Chinese women fiction; Chinese Diaspora; China

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Xiao Alvin Yang

PhD candidate in Political and Economic Science at Universität Kassel, Germany
Visiting Graduate Associate, York Centre for Asian Research

International Relations theory; global political economy; Belt and Road Initiative; China and Europe; East Asia and Southeast Asia; popular music; Chinese and European history and philosophy

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Qiang Zha

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, York University

Chinese and East Asian higher education; international academic relations; global brain circulation; internationalization of higher education; globalization and education; differentiation and diversity in higher education; theories of organizational change; knowledge transfer and commercialization; international migration and development; China

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Sabrina Zhao

MFA Candidate, Film Production

Gender, Diasporic Identities, Historical Identities,

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Yikun Zhao

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Cultural and economic sociology; cultural capital; cultural industry; Chinese consumer culture; etiquette; sociological theories; climate change; digital research methods

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