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Siwei Wang

Siwei Wang

Field: Modern Chinese Literature
Advisor: Lydia H. Liu
Email: sw2914@columbia.edu

Siwei is interested in studying Chinese socialist literature within the context of cooperative cultural production among Third World intellectuals following the Bandung Conference. Her interest also includes but is not limited to Chinese diaspora in Latin America and Chinese independent documentaries. Her latest research examines translation between Chinese and Brazilian literature in the 1950s and 1960s. Currently, she is working on late Qing intellectuals’ travel writing of Latin America. She received her B.A. from Hebei University (2010) and M.A. from Peking University (2014). She joined EALAC’s M.A. program in 2014 and has continued to study in the PhD program since 2017.

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Alexander Sogo

Alexander Sogo

Field: East Asian Religion
Advisor: Michael Como
Email: acs2299@columbia.edu

Alex is a PhD student in premodern Japanese religion. His studies focus on demonic spirits, possession, exorcism in Heian Japan. This work frequently overlaps with topics such as disease etiology and healing, as well as questions of the identity of “Shinto” in the premodern period. He is also interested in modern issues surrounding theories of religion and magic both in the West and in Japan.
Alex received a BA in Music and Religious Studies from Brown University (2015) and an MA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley (2017).

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Professor Haruo Shirane awarded the 26th Yamagata Banto Prize

Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and chair of EALAC, has been awarded the 26th Yamagata Banto Prize for his book Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons (Columbia University Press). The prize was given for his contributions to “deepening the understanding of Japanese culture in a global context.”

Details may be found here:

http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/bunka/news/bantou.html
http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/attach/4002/00025240/Reference%20Metarial.pdf

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