East-West Staff

Raymond C. Lee
Founding Director

Dong Wang
Executive Director

Dong Wang joined the Gordon faculty in 2002 and became a full professor of history in 2008. She is also research associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. In her role as associate editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, she, together with other team members, helps the Journal make editorial, managerial and financial decisions. At Gordon, she teaches courses on China, Japan, and modern world history. Her research areas are art, religion and culture in international relations, U.S.-China relations, international law, Chinese politics, nationalism, intellectual history, Christianity in China, and management of higher education.

Dr. Wang is the author of two books, China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, hardcover; 2008, paperback) and Managing God's Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952 (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2007), among other publications. Her edited volume of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Christianity as an Issue in the History of U.S.-China Relations, was published in November 2008. Currently, she is completing her book manuscript on United States-China relations from the 18th century to the present, which is under contract with Rowman & Littlefield due in 2009. A second ongoing book project, provisionally titled The Longmen Grottoes in a Changing World: Diplomacy, Heritage, and Representation, examines the discovery and presentation of the Longmen Grottoes in Japanese, French, Chinese, American, Italian, Swedish and UNESCO sources in the modern/contemporary era.
 
Mailing address:
East-West Institute of International Studies
Gordon College
Wenham, MA 01984
U.S.A.

t: 001-978-867-4842
e: dong.wang@gordon.edu  

Dong Wang's Publications (PDF)

Stephen Smith
Advisor