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Professor, School of Law
Director, Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Program
Law 241: 956-6549; 956-5570
Department: 956-7966; Fax: 956-6402
E-mail: ronaldc@hawaii.edu
Professor Brown teaches law at the University of Hawaii School of Law since 1981 and has served as Associate Dean and as Director of the Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Program. Presently, Professor Brown also serves as the University's Director of the Center for Chinese Studies. His experience includes working as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, representing management and labor in labor relations matters, acting as private impartial arbitrator in labor-management disputes and serving as state-appointed public fact-finder in Hawaii public sector disputes. Professor Brown's teaching specialties include labor and employment law, employment discrimination law, arbitration, Chinese law and Asia-Pacific comparative labor law. He also regularly teaches in the U.H. College of Business Administration, teaching Chinese Law in CHEMBA and Employment Law in the Masters of Human Resource Management Program. He has authored numerous articles and recently published a book entitled Understanding Chinese Courts and Legal Process: Law with Chinese Characteristics. During 1995 and 1996, Professor Brown worked in China under the USIA's professional-in-residence program. He has lectured throughout Asia on comparative labor law topics and has served as Consultant with the World Bank on its Legal Reform of Labor Market Development in China, with China's Ministry of Labor and Social Security, and has provided training programs with the Ministry in China, as well as taught industrial relations law at Peking University and serves as a foreign advisor to its Labor Institute. He is a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at Peking University Law School teaching comparative and international labor law in the 2004-2005 year. He also conducts legal exchange and international training programs for Chinese lawyers, judges, law drafters, and prosecutors under arrangements with the key government legal agencies.
Program Coordinator
Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Program
Center for Chinese Studies
Moore Hall 417: 956-2691 Fax: 956-2682
Email: nitzky@hawaii.edu
After receipt of his Master's degree in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii, Mr. Nitzky was hired as Program Coordinator for the Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Program. Before attending the University of Hawaii, Mr. Nitzky completed his bachelor's degree in the Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and worked at the National Geographic Society and the US-China Business Council. Mr. Nitzky has been involved in the field of Chinese studies and specifically Chinese ethnic nationalities studies for the past six years. He has conducted extensive field research in China's most densely populated minority regions, Xinjiang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Sichuan and Hunan Province. Over the summer of 2004, he acted as coordinator and cultural resource for ten university professors from throughout the United States on a Freeman Foundation-sponsored cultural tour of areas of China's ethnic diversity.
Associate Director, Center for Chinese Studies
Moore 418: 956-2692; Fax: 956-2682
E-mail: cyndy@hawaii.edu
Since 1991, Dr. Ning's administrative duties have included general oversight of the UHM Center for Chinese Studies, assistance with long-term fundraising for endowments in Chinese studies, Center initiatives including international links and study abroad programs, Hawaii projects such as the Legacy: History of the Chinese in Hawai'i program, and grant-writing/project management for projects such as the ABC (Alphabetically-based Computerized) Chinese-English Dictionary. Her research interests include Chinese language pedagogy and materials development (she currently has a USDOE grant to develop video-based instructional materials), Chinese comic literature, and Chinese film. She regularly conducts teacher-training sessions for secondary and post-secondary levels on performance-based language testing and training, and gives a wide range of lectures on Chinese culture to both academic and non-academic audiences. During the 1998-99 academic year, she was president of the international Chinese Language Teachers Association.
Head Librarian
University of Hawaii Hamilton Library
Hamilton 111: 956-7205
Fax: 956-5968
E-mail: perushek@hawaii.edu
Ms. Perushek heads the University of Hawaii Manoa Library, including its extensive Asian Collections. Trained at Columbia University and Princeton University in Chinese literature and history, she also holds library science degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago where she worked in the Far Eastern Library under T.H. Tsien. Ms. Perushek was curator of the East Asian library collections at Cornell and Princeton before focusing on collection development and management in general libraries. She has written articles and full-length bibliographies on Chinese library collections and how they are built. She has given presentations on such topics as fundraising and the history of the Gest Oriental Library at Princeton. She is currently writing a book chapter on developing East Asian collections.
China Specialist Librarian
Asia Collection Cataloguing Librarian
University of Hawaii Hamilton Library
Hamilton Library 103: 956-2311
E-mail: kyao@hawaii.edu
Ms. Yao specializes in cataloguing Chinese materials and searching the UHCARL on-line catalogue and national bibliographic utilities such as Research Libraries Information Network and OCLC databases.
Professor, Asian Studies
Moore 408: 956-5237; Fax: 956-2682
E-mail: dru@hawaii.edu
Personal website: www.hawaii.edu/dru/
Dru C. Gladney is Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. A Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, he has been a Fulbright Research Scholar twice, and has conducted extensive field research in China, Central Asia, and Turkey. He has authored over 50 academic articles and chapters, including his most recent book: Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Sub-Altern Subjects (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). A consultant to the World Bank, UNHCR, the Ford Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, the European Center for Conflict Prevention, and UNESCO, Dr. Gladney has been regularly featured on CNN, BBC, National Public Radio, al-Jazeerah, and in Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. Dr. Gladney is currently engaged in an extensive field research project in Central Asia and in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region among Tajik, Kyrgyz, and Kazak trans-national semi-nomadic peoples, examining issues of cross-border identifications, under-development, sedentarization, and cultural preservation funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Ford Foundation.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Social Sciences Bldg. 634A: 956-8777
Department: 956-8357; Fax: 956-6877
E-mail: katezhou@hawaii.edu
Professor Zhou is interested in comparative politics, Chinese politics, Asian politics, and women and development. Her main research interests include the dynamics of transition from central planning to markets, Chinese economic development and Chinese women. She has published articles on politics and women's studies, and a book titled How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People. Her book is unusual for its "farmer's eye view" approach, which includes folk rhymes and sayings along with interviews of government officials. Her thesis about the roots of the Chinese reform process has generated considerable controversy in the field of Chinese studies. She is also interested in globalization and the knowledge based economy in China. In the past two years, Professor Zhou has been involved in helping rural schools in West Hunan, Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture. In the Spring of 2004, she helped Qianling Arts Elementary School and Baojing Minority School in Hunan set up a Hawaii Culture Program with an Ukulele Club and a Western Music Choir Group. Dr. Zhou has also led multiple cultural training programs for Chinese ethnic minority youths at the University of Hawaii.