CORNELL FACULTY MEMBERS TEACHING COURSES RELATED TO CHINA

Thomas Lyons, associate professor of economics, whose academic speciality is economic development and planning in China. Office: 607-255-9534; home: 607-387-3382. Lyons, who has taught at Cornell since 1988, has written widely on China's economy. His is author of "Interprovincial Disparities in China: Output and Consumption, 1952-1987" in Economic Development and Cultural Change (April 1991), "Planning and Interprovincial Coordination in Maoist China" in The China Quarterly (March 1990). He recently complete work on a 50-year examination of "Regional Planning and Development in China: Fujian Province."

Mei Tsu-Lin, Hu Shih Professor of Chinese Literature and Philosophy. Office: 607-255-1340; home: 607-257-6681. A native of Peking, Mei Tsu-Lin has taught at Cornell since 1971. His academic specialties are Chinese historical syntax and Classical Chinese poetry. His prominence in his field is signified by his appointment in 1993 to the Hu Shih Professorship, which was created by generous support from Cornell alumni in Taiwan. Hu Shih, a 1914 graduate of Cornell, is often referred to as the father of the Chinese literary renaissance for he was a leading advocate in replacing the classical Chinese language with the vernacular, which has helped bridged the gap between the scholars and the mass.

Victor Nee, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, specializing in Chinese sociology. Office: 607-255-1415; home: 607-257-7963. Nee has been awarded numerous grants for research on Chinese issues. He conducted a large scale community and household survey of residents of China and Taiwan for the Cornell, China, Oxford Health Project 1989-1990, which was funded by the National Institute of Health. Also, he received grants from the Modernization of China Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and two additional grants from UCSB for studies on "Peasant household economy in China," "Village political economy and social change in China." He is the author of Between Redistribution and Markets: The Peasant Economy of China (Cambridge University Press) and Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism: China and Eastern Europe (Stanford University Press, 1989).

Charles A. Peterson, professor of history. Office: 607-255-3639; home: 607-272-7326. Peterson, who has taught at Cornell since 1966, is a noted authority on medieval Chinese history. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1987 to conduct research at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He has served as editor of the Bulletin of Sung-Yuan Studies and served as coordinator for the Sung History Research Project under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Vivienne Shue, professor of government. Office: 607-255-6758. Shue, who has taught at Cornell since 1982, is an expert in Chinese government. She is co-editor of State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and author of The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic (Stanford University Press, 1988) and Peasant China in Transition: The Dynamics of Development Toward Socialism, 1949-1956 (University of California Press, 1980). In 1990 she presented a lecture at Nankai University in Tianjin. She is a member of the The China Quarterly editorial board and has served on numerous academic councils and committees dealing with China, in particular the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Advanced Study ion China.

Additonal faculty with studies or scholarly work relating to China include:

• T. Colin Campbell, professor of nutritional biochemistry. Current research interests: causes of death in the People's Republic of China; diet and disease.
• Peter Chi, professor of consumer economics and housing. Current research interests: intergenerational living arrangements in Taiwan.
• Thomas Christensen, assistant professor of government. Current research interests: Sino-American relations in the 1950s, the security environment in East Asia.
• Jeffrey Cody, visiting assistant professor of city and regional planning. Current research interests: Chinese urban history in the Republican period; Chinese architectural history; historic preservation in the People's Republic of China.
• Thomas Cullen, associate professor of management and human resources management. Current research interests: transitional management. Author of A Reader for Students of Hotel and Tourism Management (Beijing: China Institute of Tourism).
• Robert Foote, professor of animal science. Current research interests: reproductive physiology, embryo, genetic engineering.
• Peter Gergeley, professor of structural engineering. Current research interests: earthquake engineering; agreements with the People's Republic of China and Japan.
• Leopold Gruenfeld, professor of industrial and labor relations. Current research interests: cross cultural study of cognitive styles.
• Edward Gunn, professor of Chinese literature. Current research interests: language in Chinese literary criticism. Author of Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Contemporary Chinese Prose.
• Jean-Pierre Habicht, professor of nutritional epidemiology. Current research interests: China's national nutrition surveillance.
• Barclay Jones, professor of city and regional planning. Current research interests: preservation of historic monuments and cultural relics in China.
• Willam Kaven, professor of hotel administration. Current research interests: marketing in Japan and Hong Kong; Chinese tourism.
• Chang Y. Lee, professor of food science. Current research interests: the nutritional quality of vegetables.
• Lee C. Lee, associate professor of human development and family studies. Current research interests: children's health status in China.
• John McRae, associate professor of Asian religions. Current research interests: Chan Buddhism and the works of Shenhui.
• Porus Olpadwala, associate professor of city and regional planning. Current research interests: joint ventures in Shanghai; comparative development in China and India.
• P. Steven Sangren, associate professor of anthropology. Current research interests: Chinese culture and social theory. Author of History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community.
• Joseph Stycos, professor of sociology. Current research interests: adolescent attitudes and knowledge with respect to population phenomena.
• Michael Tomlan, assistant professor of city and regional planning. Current research interests: historic preservation in China.
• Henry Wan Jr., professor of economics. Current research interests: economic development in the newly industrialized economics of Asia.
• Kuo K. Wang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Current research interests: Injection Molding Program.
• Ray Wu, professor of biochemistry and molecular and cell biology. Current research interests: isolating genes from rice plants.
• Martie Young, professor of history of art. Current research interests: 19th and 20th century Chinese painting.
• Xueguang Zhou, assistant professor of sociology. Current research interests: relationship of state and society in contemporary China. page - Cornell courses related to China