Graduate Students

Wenxin Xiao's research focuses on the social and cultural history of late imperial China. She received a bachelor's degree in History and Data Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in RSEA from Harvard. Her previous work includes a...

Yu Xie studies the legal history of pre-modern Korea. She received her B.A. in Korean Language and Literature from Peking University and her M.A. in Korean History from Seoul National University. Her master’s thesis focused on death penalty cases...

Yi Yang received his B.A. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and his M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in East Asian Studies. His primary research interests lie in the political and intellectual history of middle-period China, with...

Huirong Ye is a doctoral student in East Asian Film and Media Studies at Harvard University. Her current research examines the archivalization and institutionalization of meteorology in modern China, focusing on how it became configured as a mediated...

Yi Zhang holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Aesthetics from Peking University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University. Grounded in the context of late imperial China, she intends to explore the...

Amy Zhang holds a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Nankai University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University in 2019 with a focus in pre-modern Chinese literary culture. Her research...

Kent (Bowen) Zheng is interested in historiography, state formation, and rhetorics of legitimacy in medieval China. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 2022, where he joint-majored in Historical Studies and Classical Studies. Working on his senior...