Georgetown and China
乔治城大学与中国

This section provides an overview of university research about China, or in cooperation with Chinese partners.

• Faculty Publications
• Library Resources
• Research Awards
• Georgetown Liaison Office in Shanghai
• Faculty Profiles

Some recent Georgetown faculty publications about China are listed here. For a complete list, visit the Publications Search page.

• Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, ed. Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age: Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon. Georgetown University Press, 2012.
• Zuyan Chen and Hong Zhang. Cultural Chinese: Readings in Art, Literature, and History. Georgetown University Press, 2012.  
• Zuyan Chen. Confucius’s Analects: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Culture. Georgetown University Press, 2010.
• Carol Benedict. Gold-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1950-2010. University of California Press, 2010.
• Brent L. Sterling. Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? What History Teaches Us About Strategic Barriers and International Security. Georgetown University Press, 2009.
• Dennis McNamara. Business Innovation in Asia. Routledge, 2009.
• James Milward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. Columbia University Press, 2009.
• Christina Ho and Lawrence Gostin. "The Social Face of Economic Growth: China’s Health System in Transition." Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009. 301(17).
• Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China. Harvard University Press, 2009.
• Micah Muscolino. Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China. Harvard University Press, 2009.
• Stanley Nollen. New Industries from New Places: Software and Hardware in India and China. Stanford University Press and the World Bank, 2009.
• Victor Cha. Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport. Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Joanna Lewis. "China's Strategic Priorities in International Climate Change Negotiations." The Washington Quarterly 31.1, 2007.
• Robert Sutter. Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
• Phillip Kafalas. In Limpid Dream: Nostalgia and Zhang Dai’s Reminiscences of the Ming. EastBridge, 2007.
• Yi Zhou and M. Lynne Gerber. Working Mandarin for Beginners: Student’s Edition. Georgetown University Press, 2007.
• James Millward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. Columbia University Press, 2006.
• Xiaoming Huang. The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: Strong Market, Weakening State. Georgetown University Press, 2000.

For faculty commentaries, interviews, and citations in the press, please see the News section.

Library Resources

The Main Campus Libraries (Lauinger and the Woodstock Theological Center Library) hold approximately 30,000 volumes in the Chinese language and more than 10,000 volumes in Western languages on China. The Chinese holdings are strong in Chinese language, literature, linguistics, and history. Through the China-Academic Journals Full-Text Database, Lauinger Library indexes over 500 journal titles in the fields of literature, history, and philosophy with a majority in Chinese language.

Special collections maintain correspondence and reports sent from Jesuit Missions in the Far East from 1675 to 1682. The Gelardin New Media Center holds audio-visual materials related to China. The collection also includes 153 computer discs of Wen yuan ge Si Ku Quan Shu from Wuhan University. Government Documents/Microforms holds some 50 microforms in addition to Federal publications on China.

The Georgetown Law Center's Wolff Library also features an Asian Legal Sources Research Guide containing English language materials. If you are getting started with your research on foreign law in general, the Foreign and Comparative Law Guide will also help you identify basic sources and help you formulate a research strategy.

For more information about Georgetown's library resources related to China, contact Ding Ye, the Asian Studies Bibliographer at Lauinger Library.

The Georgetown National Resources Center on East Asia also has useful links to library resources related to China Studies.

Research Awards

The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation awarded a $12,000 junior scholar grant to Micah Muscolino, Assistant Professor of History, for a project on "War and the Environment on the North China Plain 1937-1945."

Professor James Feinerman, Georgetown Law Center, received a Fulbright Distinguished Senior Lectureship Award to work in China during the 2006 spring semester.

Professor Dennis Quinn and Associate Professor Pietra Rivoli, McDonough School of Business, were awarded Fulbright Scholarships for research in China in 2002 (declined).

Professor Naigen Zhang, of Fudan University, was a visiting Fulbright Scholar in 2006-2007 at the Georgetown University Law Center. He was also a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Minyue Hou, of East China Normal University, was a visiting Fulbright Scholar in 2007-2008 for the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies.

Alexander Davenport (SFS ’08) received a Fulbright Award to explore the role of education in the future of migrants within Shanghai society.

Maria Repnikova (SFS ’06) received a Fulbright Award to research Chinese labor migration into Russia.

Christine Fu (SFS ’04) received a Fulbright Award to study the economic development of minorities in Yunnan Province.

Meredith Oyen (G'04, G'07) received a Fulbright Award to do research on her doctoral dissertation, "Allies, Enemies, and Aliens: Migration in US-Chinese Relations, 1943-65."

China Scholarship Council Fellowship Program: Georgetown University and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) established the China Scholarship Council-Georgetown University Fellowship Program in May 2006 to support post-doctoral research at Georgetown (See Press Release). In the past two rounds, seveteen Chinese scholars have been granted this fellowship.

ISD Associates Program: The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) has had since 1996 a program with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing under which the Ministry sends two mid-career to senior diplomats to the Institute as ISD Associates. So far, roughly 30 PRC diplomats under this Coca Cola funded program have spent from six months to a year on the Georgetown campus and become familiar with the US foreign policy process. ISD also ran an exchange program with the People's Liberation Army & National Defense Program, and had five officers in residence at ISD.

Georgetown Liaison Office in Shanghai

The Liaison Office, located in Shanghai, China, is part of Georgetown University’s continuing commitment to global engagement. It plays an important role in deepening the University’s relations with Fudan University and other Chinese partners, as well as facilitating development of new opportunities for Georgetown faculty and students in China. In addition, the office helps Georgetown alumni, parents, and friends to stay involved in the life of the University and new programs in China.

The Liaison Office works with a range of Georgetown units to achieve their goals in China through:

• coordinating current activities with Fudan University and other Chinese partners
• developing and launching new initiatives
• establishing new channels for recruiting Georgetown students, faculty and researchers
• organizing visits of Georgetown delegations to China, and of Chinese delegations to Georgetown
• supporting collaboration between Georgetown faculty and colleagues at Chinese institutions.

Faculty Profiles

The following faculty are either engaged in research relating to China, or have significant collaborations with Chinese partners.

To add your name to this list, contact Tuoya Wulan. Faculty members can update their profiles online.