Princeton University East Asian Studies

Fall 2014 Program and Department Newsletter New Graduate Students: did his master’s thesis on the technical aspects She comes from a Chinese studies background, of the civil service examinations from the Song having completed a BA and MA in East Asian John Alekna (HIS) is a student of twentieth- Dynasty onwards. He will forward his research Studies, both at Harvard University, and post- century Chinese social and political history in his Ph.D. studies by focusing on the interaction graduate language study at Yunnan University with a concentration on the Republican period between classical learning and the literary in Kunming. Her previous research concerned from 1911-1949. His current research concerns discourses in late imperial China, with a broader Chinese higher education, especially its transnational civil society groups and protests interest in the intellectual interconnection of the examinations and post-socialist restructuring of movements in 1920s China. Born and raised Inner Asian and the East Asian world. Upon university organization. in Boston, he received his A.B. in East Asian finishing his summer Japanese language training Studies and Government from Dartmouth at the Inter-University Center in Yokohama, Ma Luke Waring (EAS) Originally from Bristol, College in 2010 and his M.Phil. in Modern is now looking forward to new challenges and England, Luke holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies Chinese Studies from Oxford in 2014. inspirations at Princeton. from the University of Manchester and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale. He is a student Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie (ANT) was born in Connor Mills (HIS) grew up in North Dakota of early Chinese literature with a particular focus Brazil where he earned his B.A. at the University and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. on poetry and historiography, although he also of Sao Paulo. While working in journalism, he in History in 2011. He took time off to work at maintains interests in traditional Chinese fiction received an M.A. at the University of Tokyo the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, and drama. He is excited to be joining the East writing mainly about social movements and D.C., before returning to Yale in 2013 for Asian Studies community at Princeton, and to be political groups after the Fukushima disaster. an M.A. in East Asian Studies. His research working with so many wonderful students and He is now a first year Anthropology student interests center on the postwar intersection of scholars. currently looking at intersections of politics and Japanese and United States history during the body in Japan and Brazil. Occupation and the Korean War. Shengyu Yang (EAS) was born and raised in Dalian, China, but received his undergraduate Megan Gilbert (EAS) earned her B.A. in East Diana Stanescu (POL) was born and raised in and two graduate degrees in Hong Kong. Asian Studies at Yale University, attended the Bucharest, Romania. She came to the United Shengyu is a student of Late Imperial History of Inter-University Center for Japanese Language States to pursue her undergraduate studies at China, specializing is socio-economic history in Studies in Yokohama and Tunghai University Mount Holyoke College, where she obtained a post-1800 Qing Dynasty. Regionally, his focus Chinese Language Center in Taichung, and B.A. in International Relations and East Asian is on Jiangnan, or the Lower Yangzi. Shengyu worked for a game design company in Tokyo. Studies. During her undergraduate career, is also interested in Neo-Confucianism, China’s She studies medieval Japanese history, she studied abroad and conducted research in historical and contemporary interactions with particularly the Muromachi era, and plans to China and Japan, experiences that refined her the West/Japan, and Tibet. He looks forward to focus on the ways that cultural capital and social understanding of the Northeast Asian security new challenges and opportunities at Princeton. bonds worked to create political power and environment in general, and of how domestic legitimacy. politics influence and constrain Japanese politics in particular. At Princeton, she intends to focus New Staff: Soojung Han (EAS) received two B.A. degrees: on the International Relations field, in order to one in Chinese Language and Literature from create a framework that can comprehensively Jeffrey Heller joined the East Asian Studies Ewha Womans University and the other in East portray the security dynamics of postwar East administrative team on September 1 as our Data Asian History from Seoul National University. Asia, by examining Japan’s security options and and Project Coordinator; a new term position in Soojung completed her M.A. at Seoul National choices. EAS. Jeff will be compiling data from various University with a focus on the relations of the University sources to design a database that Northern Dynasties and nomads, and their Hanna Waight (SOC) is an incoming allows simplified access to sensitive information influence on the imperial women in medieval student in the Sociology department with and more efficient report preparation. Jeff will China. Her main interests include early and theoretical interests at the nexus of economic also be working closely with the Department medieval Chinese history and China’s relations and cultural sociology, currently thinking Manager on projects tied to the academic with surrounding states during this time. She about the construction of the labor markets calendar. Heller has a background in database is also interested in the roles and influence of during China’s economic transition, the role and graphic design, a Bachelor’s degree in Fine imperial women. of quantified measures in educational and Arts, and a strong customer service mind-set research organizations in China, and possibly that comes from his years of experience as a Ziyao Ma (EAS) received his M.A. in Chinese cross-national comparisons of these processes computer trainer. history from Columbia University, where he between China and other developing economies. New Faculty and Visitors: Fang Zhou (CHI) was born and raised in Wei Qian (EAS) a professor of history of Sichuan, China. She earned her B.A. from Science and technology, is the director of the Faculty: Beijing International Studies University and Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials obtained her M.A. in Language Education at University of Science and Technology He Bian (HIS/EAS) is a historian of late from New York University. Prior to coming Beijing. He got his doctoral degree of history of imperial/early modern China, specializing in to Princeton University, she was employed science and technology of USTB China (2001), the history of medicine and society. Before by American Language Institute at NYU and and was a Mellon Fellow in Cambridge (2005- joining the Princeton faculty, she received taught in the Princeton in Beijing (PiB) program 2006). He was selected to be a Fulbright Visiting her BS degree from Peking University, MS in the summer of 2013. Scholar (2014-2015) in Princeton University. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and For his Fulbright program, he is going to find most recently, PhD in history of science from Visitors: out more details of the influence of Chinese Harvard University. At Princeton, she will ironworkers on early American smelters in the Yu-Yu Cheng (EAS) will join us in spring teach introductory courses in modern East Asian 18th century, and the technological transmission 2015 as a Visiting Professor. Professor Cheng history and early modern China, as well as of metallurgy from America to China before is a professor of Chinese literature at National graduate seminars on Ming-Qing history. She mid-20th century. is currently preparing a book manuscript based Taiwan University. She has published numerous on her dissertation, “Assembling the Cure: books, written dozens of papers and has been Yuki Seidler (EAS) specializes in Public Health Materia Medica and the Culture of Healing in the recipient of over a dozen awards, including and Health Sociology in the East and Southeast China, 1550-1800.” Fulbright Award; the National Science Council’s Asian context. She is particularly interested in 36th Annual Award Taiwan for International how midwifery in Japan, Europe (especially Franz Prichard (EAS) studies the literature, Research; and a NSC Outstanding Research Austria) and the US influences the experiences visual media and critical thought of Award. and well-being of overseas Japanese women contemporary Japan. He is interested in the who give birth in contemporary western urban provocative forms of exchange across works Adam P. Liff (CWP) is a postdoctoral fellow settings. She will spend her year at Princeton of criticism, fiction, film and photography that in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World conducing document analysis and interviewing offer vivid new perspectives on the worldwide Program. He specializes in international Japanese women who have given birth in and experience of urban becoming. He received his relations of East Asia, with a focus on around Princeton in recent years. The research PhD in the Department of Asian Languages Chinese and Japanese security policy and the in Princeton is part of her PhD thesis project and Cultures at University of California, Los U.S. role in the region. Adam’s publications that she currently pursues at the Medical Angeles (2011). Prior to arriving at Princeton, include peer-reviewed articles in International University of Vienna. Her previous research he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Security, The China Quarterly, and Journal of includes a comparative study of Japanese Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard Strategic Studies; analytical pieces for Foreign and Chinese mothers’ postnatal experiences University, and taught at the University of Policy, The National Interest, Asian Forum, in Vienna, Austria. She holds degrees from North Carolina at Charlotte. The Diplomat, PacNet, Asia-Pacific Bulletin, Chuo University (Tokyo), Australian National among others; and several book chapters University and the London School of Hygiene Erin Huang (EAS/COMP LIT) joins East in edited volumes. He has held research and Tropical Medicine. She is a lecturer at Asian Studies and Comparative Literature as affiliations at Peking University, University of the University of Vienna, Department of an Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. Tokyo, Harvard Kennedy School, University Development Studies. in Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia, Stanford University’s PKU Center, of California, Irvine (2012), and taught at New Japan Center for International Exchange Jing Tao (CWP) specializes in Chinese foreign York University before coming to Princeton. (JCIE), and RAND Corporation. Adam holds a policy, international law and organization, Her research focuses on twentieth century B.A. from Stanford University, and an M.A. and and East Asian security. During the CWP and contemporary literary, acoustic and visual Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. fellowship, she will work on a book manuscript cultures, with special emphasis on China, Hong based on her dissertation entitled “Sovereignty Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. She is currently Michihito Kojima (WWS) is a Visiting Costs and Selective Delegation: China’s working on her book manuscript, entitled Professional Specialist at the Niehaus Center for Approach to Legalized Dispute Resolution Capital’s Abjects: Chinese Cinemas, Urban Globalization and Governance in the Woodrow in International Treaties.” This project uses Horror, and the Limits of Visibility, where she Wilson School. He was a former senior advisor different types of “hard laws” with legalized examines the relationship between economic for WTO (world Trade Organization) Affairs dispute settlement mechanisms to examine the globalization and urban horror in post-1980s in the Customs and Tariff Bureau of Japan’s depth of China’s socialization in international Chinese film cultures. Ministry of Finance, in particular being engaged legal regimes and the changes and continuities in the intensive negotiation on the recently- of China’s approach to state sovereignty. She Lecturers: concluded Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). holds double B.A. degrees in International Relations and Economics, an M.A. degree in Wei Gong (CHI) will join us in spring 2015 as Thomas Nimick (EAS) is an Associate International Relations from Peking University, Chinese lecturer. Professor in the Department of History at West and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Point who has focused his research on local Cornell University. Eunjung Ji (KOR) obtained her Ed. M. in administration in Ming dynasty China. His applied Linguistics from Teachers College, book Local administration in Ming China: Royall Tyler (EAS) will join us in the spring Columbia University, and an MA in TESOL the changing roles of magistrates, prefects, 2015 semester as a Visiting Professor. Royall from New York University. Ji has extensive and provincial officials (2008) explored how received his B.A. in Far Eastern Languages experience teaching Korean at various levels. Ming local administration assumed its mature from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Before joining Princeton University, she form. He is currently participating in a joint Columbia University, Royall has taught at Ohio worked as a lecturer at the department of Asian project to provide a descriptive bibliography of State University, the University of Wisconsin, and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook handbooks for officials in imperial China. He and he retired from the Australian National University, and at the department of East Asian is also working on a history of the Presbyterian University. He has received numerous awards, Studies at NYU. She also taught Korean at the mission in Ningbo China from its beginning in including Fulbright and Japan Foundation Korea Society in NY. 1844 through 1865. Ph.D. Princeton University. grants, the Japan-U.S. Commission Translation Award for his rendition of The Tale of Genji.