College Fellow
Professor KIELY Jan

Jan KIELY (楊凱里) is a Fellow of CW Chu College. He is the Associate Director and Professor of the Centre for China Studies.  He has a BA from Yale University, where he was a resident of Silliman College. Kiely earned an MA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.

 A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Kiely first came to know CUHK as a Yale-China Fellow affiliated with New Asia College in 1989. He also studied and taught at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, Beijing University, Nanjing University and Harvard University.  From 2001 to 2007, Kiely was a member of the faculty of the American liberal arts college, Furman. He directed Furman’s study-abroad programs at East China Normal University in Shanghai and at Suzhou University. In 2007, Kiely joined Johns Hopkins University, serving as American Director and Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the Johns Hopkins University – Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies – a bilingual international affairs graduate school with a residential campus in Nanjing.  A historian of twentieth-century China, Kiely teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern Chinese history and contemporary Chinese society.

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