I dunno. Could be because good chairs know how to chair any committee, or maybe because they are all colleagues in Asian Studies, or something like that. But I'm sure you know better.
How does a Chinese lit Prof chair a social science Korea search?
^1987 called, wants its stereotypes of ND back
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So are you saying the search committee wasn't majority qual? Let's leave aside the Chinese literature chair.
The chair uses sophisticated statistical modeling to prove Chinese literature is good. It's objective, too.