Yi Yang

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 a particular focus on historiography and the history of scholarship. His M.A. thesis explores the Song-Liao relations from the perspective of border management. His dissertation project investigates the development of new genres, practices, and ideas in Song historiography by examining source verification efforts, historical commentaries and criticisms, and the emergence of event-based historical narratives in Song historical writings. Additionally, Yi is interested in the transformation from traditional Chinese historiography to the establishment of a modern discipline of history in the late Qing and early Republican era, as well as the role of Western and Japanese scholarship in this transformation.