PARTNERS

Constantly striving to provide our clients with the right tools and people to enhance cross-cultural sensitivity and understanding, CCCS also partners with other organizations. These professional collaborations help us to offer a greater variety of specialized services, as well as to augment the richness and quality of our work.

Currently, our key partner in Asia is the China Cross-Cultural Consulting Center (CCCCC) at Zhongshan Sun Yat-sen University; Guangzhou, Guangdong, PRC.

CCCCC is a China-based professional community of international development experts, trained at providing social impact assessments for MDBs and other major development institutions.

Following are some short profiles of key CCCCC project associates:

Zhou Daming, Ph.D.

Director

Dr. Zhou is an anthropologist specializing in urban development, applied anthropological community appraisal methodology, ethnic and regional cultures, displaced people and resettlement issues.

During the past three years, Dr. Zhou’s work through CCCCC has explored migrant laborer issues in connection with the World Bank Jiangxi Expressway Project, Anhui Express Project and the World Bank Guiyang Transportation Project.

He has also directed several poverty reduction assessments, such as a summary assessment for the China Southwest Poverty Reduction Project in the Qiannan Prefecture of Guizhou.

Since 2004, he has been leading CCCCC work on the independent external resettlement monitoring of the World Bank Guangdong Pearl River Delta Environment Project.

Ma Guoqing, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

Dr. Ma Guoqing is both and anthropologist and legal scholar whose current researching addresses urbanization, social organization, and organizational capacity building.

Dr. Ma has worked extensively on social development projects throughout the PRC, specializing in ethnic minority issues and the challenges of sustainable development. His work with major MDBs began in 2000 with the World Bank Third Jiangxi Highway Project.

Liu Zhiyang, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

Dr. Liu is a development anthropologist and Social Assessment expert. Dr. Liu experience for MDBs began with his involvement in the World Bank Jiangxi Tai-Gan Expressway Project in 2000. His professional career started in Xinjiang, where he worked for the Academy of Social Sciences, and later for the China State Construction Engineering Corporation.

Dr. Liu has worked on several resettlement projects, including the World Bank Third Jiangxi Expressway Project in 2005, the World Bank Guangdong Pearl River Delta Environment Project in 2004, and the World Bank Second Anhui Provincial Highway Project [Tongling -Tankou] in 2002.

Dr. Liu’s research interests include urban anthropology, Tibetan cultural studies, cultural heritage protection, and resettlement issues.

Sun Jiuxia, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

Dr. Sun is a CCCCC-affiliated Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University’s School of Tourism Management. With degrees in tourism management, cultural anthropology, and education, Dr. Sun’s research interests channel a broad academic foundation into innovative work ranging from community tourism, tourism and gender, tourism anthropology, and ethic cultural relations.

Over the past few years, Dr. Sun has participated in several tourism planning projects for the PRC National Tourism Administration, working primarily in Hainan, Guizhou, and Guangdong provinces.

Cheng Yu, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Dr. Cheng is an urban anthropologist, a medical anthropologist, and an expert on Social Assessment methodology.

He is currently involved in private investigative study supported by the Technology Bureau of Huangpu District, on the similarities and differences in living conditions of different communities of migrant workers. The aim of this research is to produce management models for impoverished communities.

In the past, Dr. Cheng has also participated in studies of migrant communities from the Three Gorges, displaced to Guangdong Province, and has contributed to project reports for the Social Assessment and the Poverty Reduction Assessment for the World Bank financed ‘Anhui Highway Project.’

Mei Fangquan, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Dr. Mei is an urban anthropologist who studies and practices participatory development research and applied anthropology. Dr. Mei has been involved with Social Assessments for the World Bank, including the Third Jiangxi Highway Project (since 2001), the Poor Rural Communities Development Project, the Agricultural Technology Transfer Project, and the Jiangxi Integrated Agricultural Modernization Project.

Dr. Mei’s research interests are Tibetan participatory development studies and ethnic minorities and culture property assessments.

Yang Xiaoliu, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Dr. Yang is a development anthropologist specializing on participatory development, women and development, and community capacity building. Dr. Yang has led fieldwork projects sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Chinese Fieldwork Foundation, and the Canada Fund.

Dr. Yang has worked on the World Bank Second Anhui Highway Project,the Southwest Poverty Reduction Project, the Agricultural Technology Transfer Project and the Poor Rural Communities Development Project.

Que Yue, M.A.

Research Associate

From an anthropological perspective informed by formal training in economics, Ms. Que Yue studies ethnic groups of Northwest China.

Ms. Que Yue has practiced resettlement monitoring with the World Bank Guangdong Pearl River Environment Project and participated in a state-level symposium examining new methods towards sustainable development.