Advisor: Wai-yee Li

Artificial Bodies in Early Modern China

Kaia Johnson's research focuses on gender and sexuality in Ming & Qing dynasty literature. Before coming to Harvard, she studied Chinese Language and Culture as well as Psychology at U.C. Berkeley, before earning her M.A. in Chinese literature at...

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...

Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou

Scriptures and Bodies: Jest and Meaning in the Religious Journeys in Xiyou ji

Learning Through Peculiar Things: Knowledge and Worldview in 16-18th Century China

Reading with the Ear: Oral Narrative Dynamics as Textual Rhetoric in Ming Vernacular Short Fiction

Writing Empire: Culture, Politics, and the Representation of Cultural Others in the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty