Students

Seiyoung Jang

seiyoungjang1@fas.harvard.edu

(he/him)

Princeton University, Bachelor of Arts in History, Minor in Japanese Language, 2025 Japan: Modern Japanese history; cultural history; transnational history; leisure; exhibitions; tourism.

Finn Kirkpatrick

finnkirkpatrick@g.harvard.edu

(he/him)

Brown University, A.B. in Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, 2025 Japan: Premodern and Early Modern Japanese poetry and poetics; history of writing; vernacularization; critical theory; intellectual history

Dokyeong (Bright) Lee

brightlee@g.harvard.edu

(he/him)

University of Southern California, B.A. Political Science & Cognitive Science, 2025 Japan and Korea: comparative politics; modern East Asian social and cultural history; development economics

En Lei

enlei@fas.harvard.edu

University of Chicago, B.A. in East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Fundamentals: Issues & Texts, with honors, 2026 China: history of ideas, history of science, modern Chinese intellectual history, classical Chinese thought, and the reception of the...

Yijin Li

yijin_li@fas.harvard.edu

(he/they)

Emory University, B.A. in Art History and Philosophy & Religion, 2025 Tibet: Dharma; Interaction among humans, things, and deities

Mingxuan Liu

mingxuanliu@g.harvard.edu

(he/him)

Tsinghua University, B.A. Economics, 2025, China China: political economy, comparative politics, informal institutions, political communication.

Ruyi Liu

ruyi_liu@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

London School of Economics, BSc. International Relations, 2025 China: foreign policy, international organizations, Sino-Japanese relations, historical IR, mixed method

Yang Liu

yliu6@fas.harvard.edu

(he/him)

Middlebury College, B.A. Philosophy & History, 2025 China and Japan: Medieval-Premodern Chinese and Japanese intellectual and religious history, Buddhist and Daoist philosophy.

Shuyi Ma

shuyi_ma@fas.harvard.edu

(she/they)

Nanjing University, B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, 2025 China, Japan and Korea: Classical Chinese literature; Sinographic texts in Japan and Korea; Cross-regional literary exchange and manuscript studies.

Xiyu Mao

xiyu_mao@fas.harvard.edu

(she/her)

The University of Hong Kong, BA in Chinese Language and Literature & English Studies, 2026. China: late imperial Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, women’s literature, animal studies, and material culture.

Ruohong (Elsie) Qiu

elsieqiu@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Williams College, B.A. Art History with Honors and Japanese, 2025 Japan and China: Medieval Japanese art, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, Zen painting, screen painting, museum studies

Yingying Rao

yingyingrao@fas.harvard.edu

(she/her)

University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in History (High Honors) and Philosophy, and Minor in Chinese (2025) China: Early Chinese intellectual history; excavated and received texts