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Fellows East Asia

Chan-Liang WU

Field: Chinese intellectual history
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 01/09/2010
Status: IIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Chinese Studies; Sponsored by IIAS, BICER and the Ministry of Education Taiwan
Home institute: National Taiwan University
Research topic: Zhu Xi and Sung Neo-Confucianism, Counter-Enlightenment in Modern China.

Gregory Bracken

Field: Urbanism
Country of origin: Ireland
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 01/09/2010
Status: Research fellow
Home institute: Formerly of the Architecture Theory Department, Technical University of Delft
Research topic: Colonial-era Shanghai as an urban model for the 21st century.

Field:History of science
Country of origin: France
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 January 2008 – 1 January 2010
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: REHSEIS, CNRS, Paris
Research topic: Circulation of scientific knowledge between Europe and China, 17th-18th centuries.

Marinus van den Berg

Field: linguistics
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 31/08/2012
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: IIAS
Research topic: Industrialization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China and Europe

Masae Kato

Field: Political Science, Women's Studies
Country of origin: Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/02/2005
Status: Research Fellow
Home institute: IIAS
Research topic: A comparative study on socio-genetic marginalization: Japan in "Asia" in relation to the "West" as a reference group

Mehdi Amineh

Field: Political sciences, International Political Economy
Country of origin: The Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2007 - 01/12/2010
Status: Senior Research fellow IIAS; Adjunct Prof. of International Relations Webster University, Leiden
Home institute: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Research topic: Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to Energy Security for, China and the European Union

Takako Kondo

Field: Art History, Japan Studies
Country of origin: Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/09/2009 - 31/08/2013
Status: Doctoral Research Fellow, sponsored by Asiascape and IIAS
Home institute: Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University
Research topic: Translating (Japanese) Contemporary Art

W.J. Boot

Field: Literature and poetics
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS:
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies
Research topic: History and intellectual history of premodern Japan

Ya-pei KUO

Field: History
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/02/2009 - 31/03/2010
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by NWO
Home institute:
Research topic: Cultural Wars in Early Twentieth Century China

Field:Modern European Intellectual History & Modern Korean History, Comparative History, Theory & Methodology of Historical Studies
Country of origin: Republic of Korea
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 August 2009 - 1 August 2010
Status: IIAS Professor, Holder of the European Chair of Korean Studies Sponsored by AKS
Home institute: Department of History & Graduate Program in Cultural Studies Chung-Ang University (Seoul)
Research topic: From a Hermit Kingdom to an Enlightened Nation? Fin-de-Siècle Korea As Exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900: Revisited

Zhilin TANG

Field: Regional Policy and Development
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/02/2010 - 30/04/2010
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China
Research topic: China’s central-local government relations and technological innovation: the case of Chinese Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs)