Tzeng, Rueyling 1959-

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TZENG, Rueyling 1959-


PERSONAL: Born April 4, 1959, in Taiwan; daughter of Huan-rur (a physician) and Mei-fang (a homemaker; maiden name, Wu) Tseng. Ethnicity: "Chinese." Education: National Taiwan University, B.A., 1981; State University of New York at Stony Brook, Ph.D., 1992.

ADDRESSES: Home—F.3, No. 4, Lane 131, Section 1, Hang-chow S. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. Offıce—Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Nankang, 130 Yen Chiou Yuan Rd., Section 2, Taipei, Taiwan 115; fax: 886-2-2785-1787. E-mail—rtzeng@ sinica.edu.tw.


CAREER: National Taiwan University, assistant professor of national development, 1992-93, adjunct associate professor, 1993-98; Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, assistant research fellow, 1993-98, associate research fellow at Institute of European and American Studies, 1998—. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, visiting professor, 1995; Erasmus University, visiting professor at Rotterdam Institute for Modern Asian Studies, 1999.


WRITINGS:


(Editor, with Chin-Fen Chang, and contributor) Studies of Social Structures in the United States and Taiwan (in Chinese), Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan), 1995.

(Editor, with Brian Uzzi, and contributor) Embeddedness and Corporate Change in a Global Economy, Peter Lang Publishing (New York, NY), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals, including Asian Profile, EurAmerica, International Migration Review, Journal of Chinese Sociology, and Sun Yat-sen Management Review.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on women expatriates of foreign firms in Taiwan; research on business internationalization and the international labor mobility of white-collar workers, especially between Taiwan enterprises and Western societies.