Students

Jieyan Wang

jieyanwang@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Harvard University, A.B. in English and East Asian Studies, language citation in French, 2025 China: Medieval Chinese literature, poetry and poetics, art history, aesthetics, comparative literature

Jingyi Wu

jingyi_wu@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Barnard College, B.A in Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures, 2025 Medieval China: social and cultural history; conflicts and confluences of Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions; elite culture

Xiyun Wu

xwu1@fas.harvard.edu

(she/her)

University of Notre Dame, B.A. in Art History (Honors), Supplementary Major in Asian Studies, 2025 China: Modern contemporary Chinese art and visual culture , urban phenomenology , intermediality

Yihan Xie

yihanxie@g.harvard.edu

(she/her/hers) Peking University, B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, 2023 China: modern and contemporary Chinese literature; sinophone studies

Zhikang (Leo) Xie

lxie1@fas.harvard.edu

(he/him) Johns Hopkins University, B.A. Honors degree in History and International Studies, 2024 China: My research focuses on the transnational and cultural history of late imperial China and late Victorian Britain. I am interested in their perceptions...

Kejian Yan

kejianyan@fas.harvard.edu

(he/him) Sichuan University, B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, 2021 Sichuan University, M.A. Literary Anthropology, 2024 China: Environmental Anthropology; Political Ecology; STS; Waste

Xiaolong Yang

xiaolong_yang@g.harvard.edu

(he/him/his) University of Tokyo, B.A Liberal Arts, 2023 China and Japan: Xiaolong Yang’s research interests lie in applied statistics with applications in social sciences. Primarily, he is interested in political methodology focusing on the intersections...

Yifei Yao

yifei_yao@g.harvard.edu

(she/her) University of Michigan, B.S., Film, Television, & Media and Biopsychology, 2021 China: Visual culture, Documentary filmmaking, East Asian cinema

Yuehan (Ch. 殷悦菡) Yin

yuehanyin@g.harvard.edu

(she/her) Renmin University of China, B.A. Chinese Classics China: My research interest lies in premodern and early modern Asia from the thirteenth to eighteenth century, with a particular focus on the material and cultural exchanges between the...

Jingyi Yuan

jingyiyuan@g.harvard.edu

(she/her/hers) Oberlin College, B.A. East Asian Studies and Psychology, 2021 Japan and China: Religious history; visual and material culture; Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges; historical board games and cosmograms; ritual and play; everyday religion

Yihang Zhang

yihang_zhang@g.harvard.edu

(he/him) NYU Shanghai, B.A. in Humanities, 2024 China and Japan: Chinese and Japanese Film and Media Culture, Animation and ACG Culture, Sci-fi and Posthumanism, Chinese Middle Class, Japanese Bubble Economy, The Long 1990s.

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Yinan Zhang

yinanzhang@g.harvard.edu

(she/her/they/them) Wuhan University, B.A. Philosophy, 2024 China: linguistic and semiotic anthropology; social philosophy; epistemology; public health; social work