Academic Life: Faculty Bios
Henry Tsang, PhD, Program Director
Dr. Henry Tsang is the Program Director of YISA and a faculty member of the Nanjing Normal University. His course, "Global Business Management in China" focuses on current issues and challenges of American corporations entering China and the economic environment that confronts them.
Dr. Tsang received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology specializing in the assessment and measurement classroom teaching and student learning. Dr. Tsang served for eight years under the University of Arizona President Peter Likins as the Coordinator for the P-20 Educational Council of Southern Arizona, initiating a series of educational projects and representing the Presidents Office on multiple campus-wide and State-wide committees on educational reform. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from UA.
Dr. Tsang has been the President of the Tong Ren Educational Group, a private school system including a preschool, elementary school, middle/high school, and junior college in Xian, China.
Professor Andrés D. Oņate, PhD
Dr. Andres Oņate is Professor of International Relations and co-Program Director at Yangtze International Study Abroad in Nanjing. He is concurrently an adjunct professor in Political Science and China Studies at the University of Arizona. Dr. Oņate teaches POL 428 (Chinese Political Theories, Confucius to the Present), POL 445 (The Chinese Revolution), POL 460 (Modern Chinese Foreign Relations), POL 464 (East Asia International Relations), and CHN 483 (Confucianism: The Classical Period).
Professor Oņate was a professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Arizona, where he taught for sixteen years. He then joined the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service Officer, serving seven years at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. In this capacity, Professor Oņate has visited fifty (50) cities and around 20 provinces in China. Professor Onate retired from the State Department in 1998.
Professor Oņate also served in the White House National Security Council, the U.S. Senate, and received a Masters of Science degree from the U.S. National War College.
He worked briefly as Director of the Asian Business Region for Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Marwyn Samuels, PhD, Geography
Dr. Marwyn Samuels is professor of Geography at YISA, teaching Geography 455. Author of, Contest for the South China Sea (Methuen, 1982) and of a variety of studies on the historical, political and economic geography of China, Dr. Samuels is Emeritus Professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University in New York. Dr. Samuels obtained his Ph.D. in Chinese Studies and Geography at the University of Washington (Seattle), and has since been a senior professor specialized in the political and economic geography of China at the University of British Columbia and at Syracuse University, as well as visiting research professor at Harvard, Yale, and Cornell University.
In China, he has taught at Peking University and Nanjing University where he is concurrently adjunct professor at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning. Long active in China as a consultant/advisor on a variety of reform issues, he was the American co-founder of China´s first international programs in civil service training and reform at the China National School of Administration. He is currently the founding chairman of the US-China AIDS Foundation, a non-profit agency established to support the prevention of HIV/AIDS in China.