Center News

CRC Welcomes Platinum Sponsor for 2007
Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC

Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC will join the China Research Center as a financial sponsor for 2007.  The firm’s China Group is growing quickly, led by Atlanta-based attorney Guanming Fang, who will join the Center’s Advisory Board.  

Guanming Fang advises companies of all sizes in mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, private financings, technology licensing and other transactions. She has represented clients across a broad range of industries and routinely counsels U.S. and international companies. Guanming offers bi-cultural and bi-lingual skills vital both for Chinese and U.S. clients. Born and raised in China, Guanming is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, in addition to English. She is a frequent speaker on China’s contract law and company law.  Guanming was named to "Georgia Rising Stars" by Atlanta Magazine in 2005 and "Who’s Who in Law & Accounting" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2005.

Leigh Anne Liu and Paul B. Foster Join the China Research Center
As New Associates

Leigh Anne Liu is assistant professor of international business at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. Dr. Liu's research centers on cross-cultural cognition, negotiation and conflict resolution, and global leadership. She has published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, and Management and Organization Review. Dr. Liu earned her Ph.D. in management from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches Global Business, a foundation course to the Global Partners MBA program at Georgia State.

Paul B. Foster is Associate Professor of Chinese in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech. His research specialty is in Modern Chinese Literature and culture, with a focus on Lu Xun. He is the author of numerous journal articles and conference papers, as well as the book, Ah Q Archaeology: Lu Xun, Ah Q, Ah Q Progeny and the National Character Discourse in Twentieth Century China (Lexington Press, 2006). Dr. Foster is currently researching the relationship between Jin Yong’s martial arts fiction, film and popular culture.

Dr. Foster teaches the spectrum of Chinese language and culture courses at Georgia Tech and enjoys introducing students to contemporary Chinese culture through varied media. Dr. Foster is designer and Co-director of Georgia Tech's new intensive Chinese summer language program hosted at Shanghai Jiaotong University—Chinese Language for Business and Technology (LBAT). He also designed the University System of Georgia Summer Study in China, and served as Program Director and/or On-site Co-director during the summers of 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. Dr. Foster is faculty adviser to both the Chinese Student Association and the Hong Kong Student Association. He was recipient of Ivan Allen College's E. Roe Stamps Excellence in Teaching Award for Junior Faculty, 2002-2003.

Dr. Foster received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the Ohio State University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, 1982.

CRC Associate, Baogang Guo, Wins University System Award

Dalton State College Associate Professor of Political Science Baogang Guo was recently named the inaugural recipient of the C. Tracy Harrington Award for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in International Education for his program of summer study in China.  Dr. Guo developed the program in collaboration with Dr. Wilson Huang of Valdosta State University.

The award, which is sponsored by the University System of Georgia, honors an individual, program, partnership, consortium or institution that has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to collaboration activities between two or more Georgia system institutions in international education.

Guo, who began teaching at Dalton State in 2000, earned a PhD in Comparative Politics, International Relations and American Politics from Brandeis University and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Zhengzhou University. He is currently the Associate Editor of The Journal of Chinese Political Science and President-elect of the Association of Chinese Political Studies.  For more information:  http://www.daltonstate.edu/news_releases/102006_BaogangGuo.html