East Asia
Region Leader
Dr Jon Howlett
Dr Jon Howlett is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History. He has published on a range of topics including: the political and social history of the People’s Republic of China; Sino-British relations; the history of Shanghai; propaganda production; and decolonisation.
Jon's research
Research highlights
Region members
Dr David Clayton
History
David's research areas are: Hong Kong's economic and political history, 1945 to date: laws and customs; water supply; trade; industrialization; and decolonization.
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Zhang, Haiwei
Education (PhD student)
Haiwei researches the Chinese language and learning of writing systems, as well as Chinese as a second language acquisition.
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Dr Heather Marsden
Language and Linguistic Science
Heather's research areas are second language acquisition of Japanese and Korean syntax and semantics.
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Professor Ian Davies
Dr Joyce Jiang
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School for Business and Society
Joyce's research interests ar in the area of collective mobilisation of workers in China, politicised art/ radical art in China, internal migration and expatriates in China, labour movement, identity and modernity.
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Dr Martin Jones
Centre of Applied Human Rights, York Law School
Martin's research examines the role of the law, the legal professional and legal processes and institutions in protection, with a particular focus on the protection of refugees and activists at risk (human rights defenders).
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Dr Oleg Benesch
History
Oleg's research areas are early modern and modern Japan and China. Intellectual, social, and cultural history, with a special focus on transnational and comparative research. Key research themes include nationalism, identity, masculinity, martiality, heritage, and nostalgia.
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Professor Peter Sells
Language and Linguistic Science
Peter's research areas include the grammatical study of modern Japanese, Korean, and Chinese; grammatical study of Old Japanese. Formal comparative approaches to morphology, syntax, and semantics.
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Dr Xiaodong Lin
Sociology
Xiaodong's research areas include men and masculinities, ageing, migration, family and intimacy, fatherhood, cultural values and China.
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Akbar Nadjar Hendra
Applied Linguistics
Akbar's research interests include third Language Acquisition with language combination of L1-Indonesian, L2-English and L3-Japanese.
Claudia Milena Adler
Health Sciences
My research interests are on what learning approaches empower girls and women from marginalised and rural backgrounds, focusing on women folk from South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Her work focuses on raising awareness of the implications on health and wellbeing and community wellbeing by contemporary and non-mainstream pedagogical approaches within the context of disasters, conflict and uneven development.
Dr Antonios Roumpakis
School for Business and Society
Antonios' research is mainly focused on the political economy of welfare and has published on familistic welfare capitalism, global welfare regimes, informal welfare and gender. He has supervised PhD theses on ageing, pensions, care and family relations.
Ge Huang
Politics
Ge Huang's research area is immigration policy in Japan. Her research topic is the integration of ethnic 'return' immigration(Japanese-Brazilians) in Japan.
Hang Li
Music (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
My research interests are cross-cultural education between Asia and the UK; research on the language challenges of Chinese students in the UK; subject-specific language under the cross-cultural context.
Jun Zhang
History of Art
Jun's research interests lie on late modernism art, Chinese contemporary art, ink art, and theory of avant-garde arts. Her current research regards the avant-garde artworks based on Chinese characters in the 1980s in China.
Kirill Kartashov
History
Kirill's current research focusses on the social, economic, and environmental history of pyrethrum, an insecticide made from the dried flowers of certain chrysanthemum species, in modern Japan. He is particularly interested in how pyrethrum facilitated Japan's empire-building efforts, as it was widely used in military medicine against lice and mosquitoes.
Martin Fecitt
Centre for Lifelong Learning
Britain's response, diplomatic and military, to the Chinese National Revolution of the 1920's and to the Nationalists' Northern Expedition of 1926-29, in particular the deployment and experiences of the Shanghai Defence Force (1927-29) in Shanghai, Wei Hai Wei and the Kailing Mining Administration.
Matthew Hurst
History
Matthew researches political history in Hong Kong. His PhD is funded by the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.
Molly Brown
Biology and Management
My research area covers social marketing in conservation in relation to illegal ivory trade demand reduction across Asia and Africa.
Professor Tony Royle
School for Business and Society
Tony's research interests include gig economy and employment relations in China and Japan.
Samantha Lui
Global Opportunities, International Recruitment, Partnerships and Mobility (IRPM)
I'm interested in events, funding and study exchange opportunities for York students in Asia.
Shuangjing Li
School for Business and Society
Shuangjing's research area is China. She looks into the employment relationship within Chinese internet companies, including workplace consent and resistance.
Tongyuan Yang
School for Business and Society
Tongyuan’s research areas are the effects of eWOM on green consumption under the culture of individualism and collectivism, and key research themes include culture, consumption, internet, electronic word of mouth, green marketing.
Xinchen Ma
School for Business and Society
Xinchen Ma’s research areas are talent management and knowledge management in Chinese context, and key research interests included SOEs, Social exchange theory, knowledge workers, employee attraction and retention.
Yutong Wang
History
Yutong's research focuses on the everyday policing practices of the Shanghai Municipal Police and their interactions with ordinary Chinese in the Shanghai International Settlement during the early twentieth century. She is also interested in exploring the applications of digital humanities tools in historical studies.