Brian Zhang
Dartmouth College, Class of 2024, A.B. in Art History and A.B. in Computer Science
China and Japan: Ink Painting; Religious Visual Culture; Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Art; Transnational Artistic Narratives; Contemporary Art.
Dartmouth College, Class of 2024, A.B. in Art History and A.B. in Computer Science
China and Japan: Ink Painting; Religious Visual Culture; Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Art; Transnational Artistic Narratives; Contemporary Art.
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
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A Anthropology, 2023
Inter-University Center for Korean Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024
Korea and Japan: Literary representations of marriage and its relation to the identity, sociality, and agency of women...
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Harvard University, AM, Regional Studies East Asia, May 2026
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...
Peking University BA. Japanese, 2025
Japan: Modern Japan, Environmental History, Politics of Memory
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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...
Research Interests: Comparative literature, world literature, and the literatures and cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan), as well as the Indian Ocean Rim (South and Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa).
Harvard University, AM, Regional Studies East Asia, May 2026
Harvard College, AB, Social Studies and East Asian Studies, May 2026
Japan: early modern and contemporary Japan; legal history; law and governance; classical and contemporary Japanese literature...
Research Interests: Semiotics, Nuclear Things, Toxicity, Waste, Disaster Studies, Environment, Energy, Robotics, Wildlife, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Applied Anthropology, East Asia (Japan), Indigenous Studies
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
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.
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Harvard University, AM, Regional Studies East Asia, May 2026
The University of Hong Kong, BSocSc in Art History and Sociology, 2024
Japan: early modern art, global modernism, ecocriticism