Emeritus Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies, Dartmouth College
Sarah Allan (Ai Lan 艾兰) is Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus, Dartmouth College. She is also the editor of Early China, and the Chair of the Society for the Study of Early China. She received her B.A. from U.C.L.A. and her M.A. and Ph.D. (1974) from the University of California at Berkeley.
As equity partner and one of the founding members of R&P China Lawyers, Yun advises and represents foreign and foreign-invested companies on foreign direct investment/M&A, international trade/commercial transactions, general corporate matters, and dispute resolution. Yun has developed a particular focus on corporate matters, negotiations in commercial matters, having assisted many large multinational clients with numerous projects of considerable scale. She has been recognized among Asialaw’s Leading Lawyers since 2014.
Associate Professor, Ph.D. School of History, Beijing Normal University.
Liang Liu, Associate Professor at School of History, Beijing Normal University, focuses on early Chinese philosophy and thoughts. His recent projects include a study on the thoughts of Han Feizi and a spontaneous order about the outlaws described in early Han dynasty writings. Recent published book is Han Fei's Six Basic Terms (Taipei: Wanjuanlou, 2020), and recent related articles include “Can Wu and Xi in Guoyu be categorised as shamans?” Religions 13, no. 8: 741, etc. He has been conferred a Permanent Trustee and Deputy Secretary General of the Legalism Studies Branch of China Pre...
Chenwei Ma, an Associate Professor at the School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, focuses on Chinese education management and policy. Her research interests include education equity and equality in early education through higher education in China, family education and parenting style of traditional Chinese families, and comparative and international education in Eastern and Western society.
Research Project: Parenting, parent-child and family relationship of special families in China
Raffaela Rettinger is a Ph.D. candidate of Chinese Studies at Wuerzburg University, Germany. She holds a master’s degree in Sinology and a Certificate in Intercultural Communication from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany (LMU). She has previously studied at Beijing Normal University, China and as recipient of a one-year PROSA-scholarship she further deepened her Chinese Studies research as well as her knowledge of Japanese language and culture at Osaka University, Japan. She is visiting UC Berkeley as a DAAD Scholar to conduct further research for her doctoral...
