Mengyuan Li 李梦媛 received her B.A. in Chinese History from Nankai University and her M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. Her Master's thesis examines the intellectual development of the prominent seventeenth-century Chinese...
Shae (Chae Lin) Kim received her B.A. in Asian Studies and a Master's degree in Korean literature from Yonsei University. In her master's thesis, she examined a 17th-century poetry book created for a courtesan, known as the Poetry Book for Chosaeng...
Suiyun Pan received his BA degree with Highest Honors in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his senior thesis on femmes fatales in both Chinese and Greek literary traditions. He also holds an MA...
Yufan Chen works on modern and contemporary Chinese-language literature, poststructuralist literary theory, and feminist and queer theory. His current research centers on the intersection of violence, literary form, and the politics and ethics of reading...
Aaron Throness is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations specializing in the political history of Ming China. Aaron received his BA in Asian Area Studies (2020) and MA in History (2022) from the University of British...
Jonah Katz is a student of late imperial Chinese literature. He received his M.A. in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and an Honors B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Utah. His current research focuses on the history of the...
Annie Zhanling Wang is a social historian of late imperial China and Inner Asia, with a focus on gender, family relations, voice, and empire. She has written about friendships between Manchu women in Beijing and Han women in Jiangnan in the eighteenth...
Kwan Woo Hahn received his B.A. from Yonsei University and A.M. in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University. The topic of his master’s thesis was the Korean authoritarian regime’s use of criminal organizations to quell the dissident voices...
Mark Yu-Shan Chen received his BA in History and BS in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, and his MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cambridge. His research has focused on the history of chemistry in Edo, Meiji, and...
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...
