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Chinese Studies

Faculty

Alexei Ditter, Professor of Chinese

  • Medieval and late imperial Chinese prose, poetry and fiction, genre theory, cultural memory and commemoration, economics of writing in medieval China.
  • B.A. 1995 University of Minnesota. M.A. 2001, Ph.D. 2009 Princeton University. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 2006–.
  • Office: Eliot 114
  • Phone: 503-517-7348
  • Website: Alexei Ditter

Denise Hare, Dr. Lester B. Lave Professor of Economics

  • Economics of development, labor economics, economics of transition, China's economy.
  • B.A. 1983 Carleton College. Ph.D. 1992 Stanford University. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 1992–.
  • Office: Eliot 406
  • Phone: 503-517-7463
  • Website: Denise Hare

Jing Jiang, Professor of Chinese and Humanities

  • Modern Chinese literature and culture, theories of modernity, nationalism, subjectivity, gender studies, film studies.
  • B.A. 1992 Nanjing University, Nanjing. M.A. 1995 Peking University, Beijing. Ph.D. 2006 University of Michigan. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 2006–.
  • Office: Eliot 428
  • Phone: 503-517-7376
  • Website: Jing Jiang

Chenxi Luo, Visiting Assistant Professor in History and Humanities

  • Late Imperial China, Slavery and Human Trade, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Manchu Studies, Ethnicity and Empire
  • B.A. 2013 Renmin University of China. M.A. 2016. Shanghai Jiaotong University. M.A. 2020. Ph.D. 2024. Washington University in St.Louis. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 2024-
  • Office: Eliot 423
  • Phone: 503-517-4746
  • Website: Chenxi Luo

Charlene Makley, Professor of Anthropology

  • Development, globalization, anthropology of capitalism, exchange and value, gender, ethnicity, nationalism, religion and ritual, feminist theory, linguistic anthropology, China, Tibet, East Asia.
  • B.A. 1986 Middlebury College. M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1999 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 2000–.
  • Office: 312 Vollum
  • Phone: 503-517-7461
  • Website: Charlene Makley

Hyong Rhew, Professor of Chinese and Humanities

  • Classical Chinese literature, Chinese literary theory, Chinese intellectual history, Korean literature.
  • B.A. 1978 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. M.A. 1983 Fu-Jen Catholic University. M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1993 Princeton University. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 1988–.
  • Office: Eliot 122
  • Phone: 503-517-7392
  • Website: Hyong Rhew

Michelle H. Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities

  • Art and archaeology of early China.
  • B.A. 2007 Swarthmore College. Ph.D. 2014 University of California, Berkeley. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 2015–.
  • Office: Library 323
  • Phone: 503-517-7730
  • Website: Michelle H. Wang

Xue Zhang, Assistant Professor of History

  • Early Modern China
  • B.A. 2010 Wuhan University. M.A. 2012, Wuhan University. M.A. 2016, Ph.D. 2020 Princeton University. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 2022–.
  • Office: Eliot 423
  • Phone: 503-517-4759
  • Website: Xue Zhang

Emeritus/Emerita

Kenneth Brashier, Thomas Lamb Eliot Professor of Religion and Humanities, Emeritus

  • Chinese Religions, early Chinese ancestral cult, early Chinese cosmology, early Chinese oral culture.
  • B.J. 1987 University of Missouri, Columbia. B.A. 1990 University of Oxford. M.A. 1993 Harvard University. Ph.D. 1998 University of Cambridge. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 1998–2021.
  • Office: ETC 203
  • Phone: 503-517-7377
  • Website: 

Douglas Fix, Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Asian Studies and Humanities, Emeritus

  • Modern China and Japan.
  • B.A. 1977 University of Colorado, Boulder. M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Berkeley. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³ 1990–2021.
  • Office: Eliot 423
  • Phone: 503-517-7422
  • Website: