Center for Chinese Studies

CCS Working Group Applications due by January 23, 2023

November 17, 2022

The Center for Chinese Studies is currently accepting new applications for the working group program in the AY2022-23 in support of research in the humanities and the social sciences. This program will provide opportunities for smaller groups of Berkeley faculty and advanced graduate students to share their research in progress, garner thoughtful and detailed feedback on papers or grants, brainstorm new projects, and discuss the latest published research...

CCS Working Groups

The Center for Chinese Studies Working Group program is in support of research in the humanities and the social sciences, and provide opportunities for smaller groups of Berkeley faculty and advanced graduate students to share their research in progress, garner thoughtful and detailed feedback on papers or grants, brainstorm new projects, and discuss the latest published research related to their working group.

The Working Group awards range from $250-$750 for the academic year. New Working Groups have one full year to use the award funds. The funds can be used...

Skye VanValkenburgh

Program Coordinator
Center for Chinese Studies

Skye VanValkenburgh (吴思凯) manages all aspects of the Visiting Scholar Program at CCS. She earned her B.A. in Chinese from San Francisco State University and is an alumni of the Chinese Language Flagship Program. As part of the Flagship Program, Skye studied Chinese language and culture intensively at National Taiwan University, conducted several summer internships in Taiwan, and completed a yearlong intensive language capstone at Nanjing University, which included a six-month internship as the Program Assistant for the American Councils Chinese Language Flagship Nanjing Center. She...

Yingying Rao

CCS Undergraduate Student Liaison

Yingying Rao (饶迎迎) is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley intending to major in History. Her academic interests include Chinese history, philosophy, literature and intellectual history overall.

Aihwa Ong (Emerita)

Anthropology

Global technologies, modes of governing, technoscientific assemblages, and citizenship in particular Asian contexts of emergence.

Xin Liu

Anthropology

Social/cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and social change, China/East Asia

Dingru Huang

AY2022-23 CCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Chinese Studies

Appointment Dates: 7/25/22 - 7/24/23

Field: Modern Chinese and East Asian literature and media

Home Institution: Harvard University

Research Topic: “Between Animal and Machine: Ecologizing Modernisms in Wartime China, 1931-1945”

Xiaojie Ma

Program Director
Center for Chinese Studies

Xiaojie Ma (马晓洁) manages the Center for Chinese Studies' programs, lectures and conferences and administrative matters. She holds a B.A. in English from University of International Business and Economics, and a Master's Degree in Pacific International Affairs from University of California, San Diego, with a career track of International Management. Prior to joining the CCS team, she served as the Program Manager from 2008-2012, and Assistant Director from 2013-2018 at the UCLA Confucius Institute, working on connecting the dots, filling the gaps and tapping into the tremendous resources...