Faculty & Staff

Academic Director - Liu Wei 刘为

Professor Liu Wei began serving the China Center in 1996 as a regular guest speaker, and in 1997 he became an adjunct faculty member and student Faculty Adviser. Professor Liu Wei, a Chinese intellectual renowned locally and nationally for his forward—thinking and uncompromising individualism, teaches a cultural studies seminar on modern Chinese history in the fall and on Chinese nationalism in the spring. Professor Liu is currently the Academic Director and Advisor for students interested in contemporary Chinese politics.  Read more...

Faculty Advisor - Greg Livingston

Greg A. Livingston, M.Sc., L.Ac., is a licensed Chinese Medicine physician specializing in Chinese Internal Medicine. Dr. Livingston received his Master of Science degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Five Branches Institute, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in Santa Cruz, California, in 1997. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Zhejiang University of Chinese Medicine in Hangzhou, where he specializes in Chinese Internal Medicine and clinical application of the Shang han lun, one of the most important classical texts of Chinese Medicine. He also has a clinical practice at the North American International Hospital in Hangzhou.  Read more...

Adjunct Faculty - Lindsay Shen

Lindsay Shen is a design historian who has been living in China since February 2007. She grew up in Scotland, and graduated from the University of St. Andrews with an M.A. (1989,) and Ph.D. (1993,) in Art History. After teaching at the University of Wales, she moved to Minnesota, USA, where she worked as the Director of The Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota. She joins the China Center as an Adjunct Faculty member, teaching a course on Research Methods and Practice.  Read more...

Professor Emeritus - Zhan Tianxiang 詹天祥

Professor Zhan Tianxiang joined the Friends World community soon after the Center moved to Hangzhou in 1989. Professor Zhan first began his employment with us as an adjunct lecturer and from 1991-2004 he was a Faculty Adviser. Currently, as Professor Emeritus he continues to teach courses on traditional Chinese philosophy, the city of Hangzhou as a text for understanding traditional Chinese culture and history, and an engaging seminar on the legacy of Chairman Mao during the Chinese Revolution and the Cultural Revolution, landmark periods in modern Chinese history that he experienced firsthand.  Read more...

Administratrative Coordinator - Shentu Yujing 申屠宇静

Shentu Yujing graduated from the Institute of International Relations, Nanjing, in 2001. She has been working as the China Center Administrator since fall semester, 2005.




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Student Services Coordinator - Lydia Kim

Lydia Kim graduated the University of Otago in 1997 with a B.A and Dip. Grad. Her major was Social Anthropology and she was particularly interested in the relationship between Food and Society.
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