Cheris Chan


Global Fellow


10262 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Campus Mail Code: 148703
Phone: 310-825-0952
Email: cheris@international.ucla.edu

Keywords: China, Asia

An assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Chan will spend a second year with the UCLA International Institute as a Global Fellow in 2007–08. She will have teaching responsibilities and frequent multidisciplinary seminars with faculty, graduate students, and guests.

Chan, who was educated in Hong Kong before doing graduate work at Northwestern University, is completing a book examining the emergence since the 1990s of a life insurance market in mainland China, where discussion of premature death is taboo.

Asia Pacific Center

11387 Bunche Hall - Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487

Campus Mail Code: 148703

Tel: (310) 825-0007

Fax: (310) 206-3555

Email: asia@international.ucla.edu

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