John Jamieson received his BA, MA and Ph.D. at Berkeley. Professor of Oriental Languages, he also lived abroad for long periods of time, serving as the Director of the Stanford University Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, and as academic advisor to the United States Embassy in Beijing, China, In 1971, he participated in what was then known as "Ping...
Xiaoyu Xia (夏小雨) is a PhD Candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Film and Media. Her research and teaching interests include late-imperial and modern Chinese literature, media culture, and book history, especially in the context of intra-Asian and transpacific cultural exchange. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Chinese literature from Fudan University, and is currently a junior fellow of the Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.
Yifan Zheng is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. Yifan is a social and cultural historian of ancient China, conducting interdisciplinary research that cuts across boundaries between history, literature, and philosophy. His dissertation uses the excavated manuscripts to examine the formation of identities and theorizes social status in early imperial China. He is currently a dissertation fellow at the Townsend Center for Humanities.
Agassiz Professor of Chinese emeritus Pang-hsin Ting 丁邦新 passed away on January 30, 2023. Professor Ting, an internationally renowned linguist, was professor of Chinese linguistics at UC Berkeley from 1989 until 1994. He then moved to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he served as Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.Professor Ting's research made lasting contributions to historical tonal reconstruction as well as the classification of Chinese dialects. His works on Sino-Tibetan linguistics and Austronesian languages remain major references for scholars...