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Jan Kiely
Co-director and professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies
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Mr. Kiely is a leading historian and compelling story teller on China's recent past.
Since his sudden enlightenment as a visiting student at Chengdu Middle School Number Seven in 1982-1983, Dr. Jan Kiely has spent nearly seven years studying and working in China, primarily in Wuhan, Hong Kong, Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai and Suzhou. Along the way, he has been trained as an historian of modern China at Yale, the University of Hawaii and U.C., Berkeley. In 2001-2002, he joined the departments of History and Asian Studies at Furman University where he currently teaches Chinese history and modern world history.
Interested in the diverse modern historical-cultural processes through which systems of power evolve, Dr. Kiely has researched crime and prisons, penal rehabilitation, moral prescriptive educational and print culture, and Buddhist social activism in 20th-century China. He also served as associate director of the South Carolina branch of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), directed the Furman-in-China study abroad programs, and has been a leader of Furman’s “China Initiative.”
He was trained as a scholar of modern Chinese history (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) and has taught at a number of Chinese and US universities (including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanjing University, Harvard University and Furman University). He lived in China for seven years in total (in Chengdu 1982-83, Wuhan 1988-89, 1990, Hong Kong 1989, 1990-91, Beijing 1992, 1998, Nanjing 1997-98, 2003, 2007, Shanghai 2004 and Suzhou 2006). He is a former Yale-China Fellow and current National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectuals Fellow.
His topics are:
Contemporary China in historical context
Recruiting bilingual talent
US-China relations
US-China educational exchange
Negotiating with Chinese institutions
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