Asian Studies

Staff

Get to know the team in Asian Studies.

Many of us work on a hybrid basis - a mixture of on-campus and digitally.

Our working hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (UK time).

Please email us in the first instance, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Undergraduate enquiries

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Postgraduate enquiries

Email us about taught postgraduate programmes in Asian Studies

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Head of Asian Studies

Name (sorted in descending order) Role Email Phone number
Daniel Hammond Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society Daniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk +44(0)131 650 6941

Academic staff

Name (sorted in ascending order) Role Email Phone number
Qiguo Cen Teaching Fellow in Chinese Cen.Qiguo@ed.ac.uk
Sakie Chiba-Mooney Language Assistant in Japanese Sakie.Chiba@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3064
Joachim Gentz Chair of Chinese Philosophy and Religion Joachim.Gentz@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3681
Natascha Gentz Chair of Chinese Studies Natascha.Gentz@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4229
Daniel Hammond Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society Daniel.Hammond@ed.ac.uk +44(0)131 650 6941
Xuelei Huang Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies Xuelei.Huang@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8985
Hephzibah Israel Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies H.Israel@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4467
Youngmi Kim Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies Youngmi.Kim@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 1363
Yuqing Liu Lecturer in Chinese Studies yuqing.liu@ed.ac.uk
Duo Luan Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Head of Chinese Language duo.luan@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4274
Abigail MacBain Lecturer in Premodern Japanese Studies abigail.macbain@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 1358
Mark McLeister Lecturer in Chinese Studies Mark.McLeister@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4232
Professor Aaron William Moore Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations aaron.moore@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4225
Atsuko Moriyama Language Assistant in Japanese atsuko.moriyama@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131
Fumiko Narumi-Munro (FHEA) Lecturer in Japanese F.Narumi-Munro@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 6971
Helen Parker Lecturer in Japanese Helen.Parker@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4230
Chris Perkins Senior Lecturer in Japanese Chris.Perkins@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4174
Christopher Rosenmeier Lecturer in Chinese christopher.rosenmeier@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4357
Akihiko Shimizu Teaching Fellow in Japanese akihiko.shimizu@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8294
Holly Stephens Lecturer in Japanese and Korean Studies holly.stephens@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8984
Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt Lecturer in Japanese Y.M.Sturt@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4228
Esther Tyldesley Teaching Fellow in Chinese Esther.Tyldesley@ed.ac.uk
Julian Ward Senior Lecturer in Chinese Julian.Ward@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4226
Robert Winstanley-Chesters Teaching and Research Fellow in Korean Studies r.winstanley-chesters@ed.ac.uk
Lisa Xu Teaching Fellow in Chinese and Translation Studies Lisha.Xu@ed.ac.uk
Min Yue Teaching Fellow in Chinese min.yue@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 4231
xiaonan zhuang Full-time Teaching Staff xzhuang@ed.ac.uk

Tutors

Yizhu Li Tutor in Chinese yli27@ed.ac.uk
Narae Park Tutor in Korean Studies npark@ed.ac.uk
Mihoko Pooley Tutor in Japanese mihoko.pooley@ed.ac.uk
Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins Tutor in Japanese Studies hiromi.sasamoto-collins@ed.ac.uk
Xiaoming Wang Tutor in Chinese v1xwan18@exseed.ed.ac.uk

Honorary Fellows and Professors Emeriti 

Liming Chen Honorary Professor  
Ian Astley Honorary Fellow Ian.Astley@ed.ac.uk
Ian Gow Honorary Fellow Ian.Gow@ed.ac.uk