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Nearly 100 faculty members at UC Berkeley specialize in topics related to East Asia.
George A. DeVos (emeritus)
Japan, psychological anthropology, ethnicity
Nelson H.H. Graburn
Japan, kinship, art, tourism, circumpolar peoples
Junko Habu
Prehistory of Japan, hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement
Xin Liu
China, social/cultural anthropology
Aihwa Ong
South China, Southeast Asia, transnational identities
Dana Buntrock
Architectural practice in Japan, construction industry
Mui Ho
Chinese vernacular architecture
Marc Treib
Japanese architecture and gardens
Patricia Berger
Chinese Buddhist art, Asian architecture, sculpture and painting
James Cahill (emeritus)
Chinese and Japanese art
Gregory P. Levine
Japanese art and architecture
Hai Che
Empirical and theoretical analysis of competitive strategies
James Lincoln
Organizational design and innovation, Japanese management
Jihong Sanderson
Management of technology and innovation in emerging markets
Mark Seasholes
International financial markets
Robert E. Cole (emeritus, also Sociology)
Japanese business, industrial sociology, business organizations
Michael Gerlach
Japan, international business, strategy and policy
James R. Lincoln
Japanese management, organizational networks
Miryam Sas (also Film Studies)
Japanese, French, and English literature and thought
Sophie Volpp (also East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
Haruo Aoki (emeritus)
Japanese language and linguistics
Robert Ashmore
Classical Chinese literature
Cyril Birch (emeritus)
Chinese literature
James Bosson (emeritus)
Altaic Languages, Tibetan
Hsuyin Chang
Bilingual education, contrastive analysis, psycholinguistics.
Kun Chang (emeritus)
Chinese linguistics
Samuel Hung-nin Cheung (emeritus)
Vernacular Chinese literature, linguistics
Cecilia Chu
Coordinator, Chinese Language Program
Yoko Hasegawa
Japanese linguistics
H. Mack Horton
Classical Japanese language and literature
John Jamieson (emeritus)
Chinese literature
Andrew Jones
Modern Chinese Literature
Lewis R. Lancaster (emeritus)
East Asian Buddhism
I-Hao Li
Chinese language
Susan Matisoff (emerita)
Classical Japanese literature
Frank Motofuji (emeritus)
Japanese literature
Daniel O'Neill
Modern Japanese literature
Jeffrey K. Riegel (emeritus)
Classical Chinese literature, early Chinese texts
William Schaefer
Modern Chinese literature and culture
Robert Sharf
Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism
Jiwon Shin
Late Chosôn and modern Korean literature
Alan Tansman
Modern Japanese literature
Pan-Hsin Ting (emeritus)
Chinese linguistics
Paula Varsano
Classical Chinese poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries
Sophie Volpp (also Comparative Literature)
Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
Stephen West (emeritus)
Medieval Chinese literature, drama
Duncan Ryuken Williams
Japanese Buddhism
Clare You
Korean language
Lihua Zhang
Germanic, English and Chinese contrastive linguistics
Chang-Tai Hsieh
East Asian growth and development
Yingyi Qian
China's economic reform and development
Maxine Hong Kingston (emeritus)
Asian-American experiences in the United States
Dara O'Rourke
Environmental, social, and equity impacts of global production
Ye Qi
Modeling and analysis of ecosystem processes
Miryam Sas (also Comparative Literature)
Japanese, French, and English literature and thought
You-tien Hsing
Post-Mao China, newly industrialized economies in Asia
Andrew Barshay
Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history
Mary Elizabeth Berry
Japan, Kyoto during the sengoku period, the Confucian family orientation
Delmer M. Brown (emeritus)
Early Japanese religious history
David G. Johnson
Premodern China, traditional Chinese popular culture
David N. Keightley (emeritus)
Neolithic and Bronze Age China
Michael Nylan
Early China
Irwin Scheiner
Japan, Far East, intellectual, social, late Tokugawa
Wen-hsin Yeh
Modern China, social and cultural history
John Chuang
Technical, economic, and policy dimensions of computer networking
Anna-Lee Saxenian
The exporting of information technology
Katie Quan
Immigrant workers, women workers, labor in the global economy
Todd Carrel
China and Japan
Orville Schell
Contemporary China
Carolyn Wakeman
Chinese media
Qiang Xiao
Participatory media, China and human rights
Robert C. Berring, Jr.
Chinese law, legal research
Stanley Lubman
Chinese law, administrative law
Mark Levine
Energy modeling, energy-efficiency policy
Jiang Lin
Energy forecasting models, energy-efficient lighting systems
James A. Matisoff (emeritus)
Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area
William Wang (emeritus)
Acoustic Phonetics, Language Engineering, Computational Linguistics and Language & Evolution
Mu-ming Poo
The molecular mechanisms of synapse growth
Bonnie Wade
South and East Asia, ethnomusicology
Peng Gong
Computer recognition and analysis of the environment
Vinod Aggarwal
Political Economy of Asia
Lowell Dittmer
China, North and East Asian governments and politics
Hong Yung Lee
China, comparative government, East Asian politics
Peter Lorentzen
China, political economy and economic grown in developing countries
Kevin O'Brien
China, social movements, policy implementation, reform
T.J. Pempel
Contemporary Japan, Asian regionalism, comparative politics, political economy
Robert A. Scalapino (emeritus)
China, Japan, government, Japan's policy toward China
Steven Vogel
Japan, comparative and international political economy
Steve Weber
International security and the impact of technology
Kaiping Peng
Cultural psychology, reasoning and judgment across cultures
Teh-wei Hu
Social security systems in Taiwan and China, technology transfer
Edmund Seto
Environmental change and emerging infectious disease
Robert Spear
Human exposures to toxic agents in the environment
Pheng Cheah
Chinese diaspora, East Asian capitalism
Julian Chun-Chung Chow
Chinese migrant communities, service delivery, urban poverty
Robert E. Cole (emeritus, also Business Administration)
Japanese business, industrial sociology, business organizations
Thomas B. Gold
Chinese civil society, entrepreneurship, development
John Lie
Korean diaspora, social theory, political economy
