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.