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Matthieu Felt

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Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: David Lurie
Email: maf2208@columbia.edu
 

 

Matthieu is a Ph.D. candidate in premodern Japanese literature focusing on the reception and reinterpretation of eighth-century texts in medieval, early modern, and modern Japan. His dissertation traces the shifting meaning and value of the Nihon shoki (720), Japan’s first official history, through the early twentieth century. His research interests center on the adaptation of myth and early literature in text, art, and film and extend to narratology, textual production, and cultural identity.

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Dongxin Zou

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Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: dz2245@columbia.edu

Dongxin Zou is a doctoral student in modern Chinese history, with interests in medicine and science, Cold War politics, and China’s relations with the Middle Eastern and North African countries in the post-colonial world. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Arabic Language & Culture from Beijing Foreign Studies University where upon graduation she worked as a lecturer in Arabic for three years. Prior to entering Columbia, she earned M.A. in History from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Jing Zhang

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Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: jz2384@columbia.edu

 

Zhang Jing joined the department as a Ph.D student in Modern Chinese History in 2010. Before coming here, she studied Chinese Literature in Peking University and Chinese history in National University of Singapore.Her research interest lies in urban society, popular culture, everyday lives of Asian countries, especially those of China. She plans to study public rumors surrounding political celebrities and public affairs in urban Shanghai from late Qing to Republican era.

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