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Program Director 

Zhan Yu

Zhan Yu

Affiliation

Asia and Middle East Unit
Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Program

Expertise/Areas of interest

Comparative & International Education/Economics of Education/Education History

Languages

Chinese (mother tongue)/Japanese/English

Academic/Professional Background

Beijing Foreign Studies University (BA in literature, 1984)
Instructor, Department of Japan Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984 to 1987)
Master’s course in the Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo (Ed.M., 1990)
Assistant Program Officer, Program Assistant, Program Officer, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (1994 to 2005)
Doctoral course in Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (Ph.D.2010)
Director, the Sasakawa Japan-China Cooparation Department, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (2006 to present)

Projects

MA and Ph.D. Program for Internationl Studies at the School of International Studies, Peking University/Invitation Program for Chinese Mayors/Japan-China Maritime Navigation Safety Dialogue/Japan-China Dialogue on Finance/Book Translation and Publication Project

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Papers Date of Papers
“The Range of the concept ‘Responsibility’ by Arinori Mori and ‘Calling’ by Liang Qichao, The Distribution of Knowledge and the Unification of the Nation” pp. 110-122, (co-authored by the Research Group on Modern Japanese Educational History, in Japanese) 1993

Publications

Publications Publishing company Date of Publication
"Impact of International Foundations on the Internarionalization of Chinese Research Universities: a Case Study of Peking University and The Nippon Foundation Group"
359 pp (Single Author in English)
Nanjing University Press 2013
"Conversations with Six Major Civilizations by a Chinese Traveler"
302 pp (Single Author in Chinese)
Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press 2011
"A New World Reflected In Eyes of a Chinese Student"
458 pp (Single Author in Chinese)
Peking University Press 1999
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