Steering Committee

Edith Lo
Administrator

A key figure in the David Lam Centre for more than a decade, Edith Lo coordinates event logistics, tracks financial data and facilitates communications between the director. media outlets, community organizations and faculty at SFU and other institutions. She also responds to general enquiries, and plays an active
role in event and project planning, volunteer coordination and assists in document preparation for grant applications.

Jan Walls
Emeritus Professor, Department of Humanities
BA, MA, Ph.D. Chinese and Japanese languages and literatures(Indiana University)

Dr. Walls taught Chinese language and East Asian cultures at the University of British Columbia (1970-78) and the University of Victoria (1978-85). He founded and directed the Centre for Pacific and Oriental Studies at Victoria. From 1981 to 1983 he served as First Secretary for Cultural and Scientific Affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, and from 1985 to 1987 he was Senior Vice President of the newly established Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where he founded and developed the first Education and Cultural Affairs programs. In September, 1987, he joined Simon Fraser University, where he founded and directed the David Lam Centre for International Communication at the Harbour centre campus of Simon Fraser University. He was also Founding Director of the Asia-Canada Program at SFU

John Harriss
Director, School for International Studies
BA, MA (Cantab), Ph.D. East Anglia

John Harriss has been Director of the School for International Studies from September 2006. A social anthropologist by training and vocation, he has long standing interests in the political economy of development, and in politics and society in South Asia, and has always taught and researched in departments of Development Studies. His earlier research concerned peasant economy and agrarian change (see Capitalism and Peasant Farming, Oxford University Press 1982; and the edited collection on Rural Development: Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change, Hutchinson 1982), environmental change, the sociology of industrial labour markets and the informal sector. More recently he has engaged in debates on the concept of social capital and about civil society and politics, and popular representation, especially with regard to India.

Paul Crowe, Director
David Lam Centre Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities & Asia-Canada Program
Ph.D., MA Asian Studies (UBC)
MA Religious Studies, BA Philosophy and Religious Studies (Calgary)

Paul Crowe’s teaching and research focus is on Chinese religions and intellectual history and on cultivation of intercultural understanding. Current research projects include translation and analysis of a thirteenth-century Daoist meditation or inner alchemy (neidan) text. He also conducts research into the nature and history of Contemporary Chinese religious institutions in Canada and Hong Kong. This research considers the history and transformation of religous institutions relative ot the process of migration. Outside the academy he has had a longstanding personal interest in Chinese culture as a practitioner of Taiji quan and Daoist meditation for twenty-five years. (more)

Rosalie Tung
Professor, The Ming and Stella Wong Professor of International Business Faculty of Business Administration
Ph.D., MBA (UBC); BA (York); FRS(C), Fellow of the Academy of Management, Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Dr. Rosalie L.Tung completing a five-year term as vice-president, president and past president of the Academy Management (2000–2005). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Academy of Management, and the Academy of International Business, she also won the 1998 Vancouver YWCA Woman of the Year award in Management, the Professions and Trades; in 1997 she won the American Society for Advanced Global Competitiveness Research Award. Rosalie joined SFU Business in 1991 after serving on the faculties of a number of American universities, including a Wisconsin Distinguished Professorship with the University of Wisconsin System and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a visiting professor at universities around the world, including Harvard, and has served on the United Nations’ Task Force on Human Resource Management. Rosalie is also involved in management development and consulting activities around the world. In her spare time, she enjoys Chinese brush painting, and meditation.

Shuyu Kong
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
Asia-Canada Program

Shuyu Kong is associate professor in Humanities and Asia Canada program. Born and educated in China, she received BA and MA in Chinese literature and comparative literature from Beijing University, and her Ph.D. in Asian Studies from University of British Columbia. She taught at University of British Columbia, University of Alberta and University of Sydney before joining SFU in 2008. She teaches Chinese literature, film and popular media, as well as Asian Canadian studies. Shuyu’s research interests include both contemporary Chinese culture and Chinese diaspora culture. She published articles in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique; Asian Cinema and Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and a book Consuming Literature: Bestsellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China (Stanford UP, 2005). She is now working on projects on Chinese TV drama and ethnic Chinese media in Canada.

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Director, Asia-Canada Program
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
LL.B. (Doshisha University), M.A. (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (Princeton University)

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki the current director of the Asia-Canada Program where he is cross-appointed. Dr. Kawasaki taught at York University and the University of Victoria before coming to Simon Fraser University. His research interests include Japanese politics and foreign policy, international relations theory, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Public Policy, The Pacific Review, Etudes Internationales, International Journal, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, and Leviathan.