Alumni East Asia

Field:Energy Security
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: 11 September 2009
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Institute of West-Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Research topic: China's policy and measures to secure the supply of oil and gas: the case of Saudi Arabia and Russia
Field:Sociology
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: September 1, 2007 – September 1, 2008
Status: IIAS Professor, European Chair
Home institute: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica and Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
Research topic: Religious changes in Taiwan
Field:Religious Studies
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 April - 30 April 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow, sponsored by NWO
Home institute:
Research topic: ‘The Three Pillars of Bon’: Doctrine, ‘Location’ & Founder - Historiographical Strategies and their Contexts in Bon Religious Historical Literature.
Katalin Ferber
Field:Comparative Economic and Fiscal History (Japan and Central Europe)
Country of origin: Hungary
Period of stay at IIAS:
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Waseda University School of International and Liberal Studies (SILS) Tokyo
Research topic: The Administrative Consultants: Cameralism in Meiji Japan
Field:Current International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: Dec. 1, 2007—Jan. 2, 2008
Status: Research Fellow (Professor) and Deputy Director
Home institute: Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Research topic: East Asia Security and Regional Integration
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Field:Early Chinese History; Confucian Classics
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS:
Status: Associate Professor
Home institute: Department of History, Peking University
Research topic: Study of Confucian Classics: Shangshu studies in 17-18 centuries
Field:Philosophy
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 September 2008 - 1 September 2009
Status: IIAS Professor, holder of the European Chair of Chinese Studies
Home institute: Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University
Research topic: The Debate between Liberals and Neo-Confucians in Modern Chinese-speaking World

Hossein Azadi

Field: Land Use
Country of origin: Iran
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/11/2009 - 01/02/2010
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Environmental Science Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran - Centre for Development Studies, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Research topic: Global Land Grabbing for Food and Biofuels: Consequences of China Rise on Developing Countries

Field:Linguistics
Country of origin: Mainland, China
Period of stay at IIAS: July 2007 - September 2007
Status: Affiliated fellow (sponsored by CASS/KNAW)
Home institute: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Research topic: Trans-Himalayan database development: China and Subcontinent Project
Field:Cultural and Social Anthropology
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 15 July 2008 – 14 October 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by the National Science Counsil, Taiwan
Home institute: Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Research topic: Gods on Deeds: Engaged Religions among the Chinese in Malacca, Malaysia