Here you will find detailed lists of our Department's research expertise by members of staff in the fields of Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, South East Asia Studies (and Asia Pacific Studies) and Mongolian Studies.
If you are a prospective PhD student, this will give you a clearer idea of what study subjects we are able to supervise.
If you are from the media, the lists will give you some idea of what East Asia related affairs our Departmental staff are able to comment on.
| Name |
Field |
| Flemming Christiansen |
- Livelihoods, Social Strata and Classes in China;
- Chinese Rural Development and Urbanisation;
- Identity Politics in China and among Chinese
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| Delia Davin |
- Social and economic development of China;
- Gender issues;
- Population control;
- Rural-urban migration in China;
- Life and legacy of Mao Zedong
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| Alison Hardie |
- Social and cultural history of early modern China;
- Chinese garden design and social uses of gardens in early modern China;
- Individuality and identity in early modern China, especially in the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646)
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| Li Ruru |
- Tradition and Innovation – Performer and Performance of Beijing Opera;
- Comparative theatre: traditional and modern theatres in China & Western theatre;
- Intercultural performance art: practice and analysis
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| Jieyu Liu |
- Work and organization studies;
- Gender and sexuality;
- China's social and economic development;
- Qualitative research methodology, life history and comparative research
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| David Pattinson |
- Bees, honey and beekeeping in China before the nineteenth century;
- Social networks in late imperial China, especially in Jiangxi;
- Letters and letter collections;
- Responses to destruction and loss in the seventeenth-century
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| Frances Weightman |
- Chinese fiction and authorial identity, past and present;
- Political dissent and Chinese democracy movements;
- Seventeenth century classical Chinese tales of the supernatural;
- Ideological trends of the late Ming
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| Wu Daming |
- Computer Assisted Translation;
- Translation and Interpreting Studies;
- Computer Assisted Language Learning
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| Yang Lan |
- Stylistics and linguistic criticism on literature;
- Traditional Chinese culture versus Contemporary Chinese literature;
- Chinese literature and language of the Cultural Revolution;
- Language style of Chinese literature since 1980s;
- English-Chinese translation studies
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| Heather Xiaoquan Zhang |
- Socio-economic and human development in China and Southeast Asia (Vietnam);
- Global-local linkages and the impact of globalisation on local development;
- Gender, intra-household, intergenerational relations;
- Socio-economic consequences of HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing;
- Livelihood analysis, rural-urban migration;
- Social policy research, especially on poverty, inequality, social exclusion, health;
- Qualitative research methodology
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| Name |
Field |
| Kweku Ampiah |
- Japan's Relations with Africa;
- Post-war Japanese Diplomacy and International Relations;
- International Political Economy;
- Sino-Africa Relations
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| Irena Hayter |
- Modern Japanese literature, film and cultural studies;
- Relations between historical and cultural form (e.g. cinema and modernity; modernism and advanced capitalism);
- Cultural theory, especially psychoanalysis and Marxism
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| Sierk Horn |
- Japanese Business and Management;
- Consumer and Consuming Behaviour in East Asia;
- Cross-cultural measurement concepts and methods;
- Work and Organisational Psychology;
- Management Diagnostics;
- Continuity and Change of the Japanese Economy and Society
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| Soyeun Kim |
- Political ecology/political economy of development and environmental change in East and Southeast Asia;
- The emerging power of the East Asian Actors in international development;
- Greening of aid;
- Environmental politics and policy in Japan
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| Caroline Rose |
- Contemporary Sino-Japanese relations;
- Japan's foreign policy;
- Nationalism in China and Japan;
- Japan and China in the Asia Pacific;
- Reconciliation between China and Japan in the 21st Century
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| Mark Williams |
- Japanese literature of the immediate postwar period;
- Christianity in Japan
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| Name |
Field |
| Judith Nordby |
- Contemporary Mongolian affairs;
- Religion and politics amongst the Mongols from the Middle Ages to the present
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South East Asia Studies (and Asia Pacific Studies)
| Name |
Field |
| Ian Caldwell |
- The history of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, before AD 1900;
- The history of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia
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| Christopher M. Dent |
- East Asia's international political economy;
- Regionalism and regionalisation;
- Free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific;
- Energy security in East Asia;
- Korea, Singapore and Taiwan's foreign economic policies;
- East Asia and global society;
- Economic security theory;
- East Asia's economic relations with the European Union
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| Jörn Dosch |
- Regional co-operation and integration in the Asia Pacific;
- Non-Tradtional Security in the Asia Pacific;
- Democratisation in Southeast Asia;
- Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN);
- Sub-regional co-operation in the Mekong Valley;
- Vietnam's foreign policy;
- US-Asia and Europe-Asia relations
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| Victor T. King |
- Socio-economic development and applied anthropology in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia;
- General sociology and cultural anthropology of South East Asia;
- Environmental change and rural development in Borneo;
- Comparative study of the middle classes in South East Asia;
- Comparative studies of heritage tourism and tourism development in South East Asia;
- Sociology of culture and identity in South East Asia
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| Michael J G Parnwell |
- Development processes in South-East Asia;
- Rural-urban circulation;
- Rural industrialisation;
- Spatial planning;
- Tourism;
- Extended metropolitanisation and urbanisation;
- Development, deforestation and environmental degradation;
- Sustainable livelihoods and food security;
- Development monks in Thailand
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| Martin Seeger |
- History of Buddhism in Thailand;
- Contemporary movements in Thai Buddhism and their relations to society, politics and the economy;
- Disputes on Buddhist doctrines in Thailand;
- Canonical Theravada-Buddhism and its modern forms
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