Nearly 100 faculty members at UC Berkeley specialize in topics related to East and Southeast Asia.
By Department | By Last Name
Research Interests: Political Economy of Asia
Research Interests: Korean cinema
Research Interests: Classical Chinese literature
Research Interests: China, climate change, China's role in reducing greenhouse gases
Research Interests: Chinese film and media culture from nineteenth century to present
Research Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history
Research Interests: Buddhist traditions in Mongolia
Research Interests: Buddhist thought and culture
Research Interests: Chinese diaspora, human rights and globalization, world literature
Research Interests: Chinese migrant communities, service delivery, urban poverty
Research Interests: Architecture and urban design in China
Research Interests: Technical, economic, and policy dimensions of computer networking
Research interests: History of the Philippinies, liberalism in Southeast Asia
Research Interests: Chinese urbanization
Research Interests: Early Chinese religions, philosophies, and cultures
Research Interests: Tibetan Buddhism
Research interests: Colonial and postcolonial studies, Buddhism, Cambodia and Burma
Research Interests: Economic history, international economics
History of socialism; Social revolution; Law and State; Historical justice; Political communication; Bureaucratic process
Research interests: Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, sacrifice, addiction, Southeast Asia (Thailand), Nordic welfare (Finland)
Research Interests: Computer recognition and analysis of the environment
Research Interests: New approaches to visual impairments and the causes for blindness
Research Interests: Prehistory of Japan, hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement
Research Interests: Japanese linguistics
Research Interests: Economic transition in China
Research Interests: Classical Japanese language and literature
Research Interests: Post-Mao China, newly industrialized economies in Asia
Research Interest: Chinese art and architecture, Buddhist visual culture
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature
Research Interests: Revision games, solution concepts for games, search, social networks, market design, communication, political economy
Research Interests: Teaching Korean as a foreign language
Research Interests: Critical dance studies; transnational Asian American studies; cultural geography; theories of space and kinesthesia, interculturalism, modern dance, ballet, and yoga; theories of Chineseness
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Research Interests: 16th-19th century Chinese literature, early Chinese theater
Research Interests: Comparative ethnic studies, the Korean diaspora in the U.S. and former Soviet Union
Research Interests: Literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas; gender & sexuality studies
Research Interests: Japanese art and architecture
Research Interests: Energy modeling, energy-efficiency policy
Research Interests: Chinese language
Research Interests: Korean diaspora, Japanese, social theory, political economy
Research Interests: China, social/cultural anthropology
Research Interests: Trade and cultural exchange of the early Common Era
Research Interests: Visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan
Research Interests: Participatory design of health and social programs and policies
Research Interests: Early China
Research Interests: Gender, Medicine, Politics
Research Interests: China, social movements, policy implementation, reform
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature
Research Interests: Environmental, social, and equity impacts of global production, East Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
Research Interests: Divergent regional economies in China
Research Interests: Immigrant workers, women workers, labor in the global economy
Research Interests: China-US relations; strategic competition; emerging technologies; middle powers
Research Interests: Political economy, comparative and institutional economics, reforms in China and North Korea
Research Interests: Economics of global warming, regional economic development in China
Research Interests: Japanese, French, and English literature and thought
Research Interests: The exporting of information technology
Research Interests: Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism
Research Interests: Modern Korean literature and culture with emphasis on poetry and poetics
Research Interests: China, law, social movements and environmental issues
Research Interests: Asians in the Americas; Chinese diaspora studies
Research Interests: Ninth to eleventh century China
Research interests: Literature, gender and cultural studies, Indonesia
Research Interests: Medical sociology and extensive community-based participatory research experience with diverse and vulnerable populations
Research Interests: Extended Vocal Techniques, Non-Western Instruments, Microtonality
Research interests: Refugee and diaspora studies, Cambodia
Research Interests: History of Tibet and Inner Asia; Sino-Tibetan relations
Research Interests: Classical Chinese poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries
Research Interests: Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
Research Interests: Japan, comparative and international political economy
Research Interests: Museum curatorship, contemporary and traditional Chinese arts
Research Interests: Optometry, cultural, environmental and genetic influences on myopia development, new therapies
Research Interests: Chinese contemporary art, Qing visual culture, artistic authorship and commodity production
Research Interests: Participatory media, China and human rights
Research Interests: International migration in East Asia
Research Interests: Modern China, social and cultural history
Research Interests: Germanic, English and Chinese contrastive linguistics
Research Interests: East Asian historical records, information management, library history, Chinese linguistics
Research Interests: Cultural influences on socio-emotional development, with a particular interest in Chinese and Chinese American populations
Research Interests: Literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan
