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Yuan Yi

Yuan Yi

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: yy2510@columbia.edu

Yuan is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese history. Her dissertation examines the industrialization of Chinese textile production in the early twentieth century with emphasis on the textile machinery business between China and the US. By charting the challenging process of mechanization on the shop floor, where US machines often malfunctioned, it attempts to show how various groups of experts engaged in the making of the factory system, with multiple layers of knowledge obtained through hands-on experience of machines, formal engineering education, and the long tradition of handicraft technology in spinning and weaving. Yuan received her BS in Business Administration from Korea University, Seoul; an MA in Clothing & Textiles from Ewha Womans University, Seoul; and an MA in History from the University of Utah. Before coming to the US she worked for Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation and LG Electronics.

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Yijun Wang

wangyijunYijun Wang

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Dorothy Ko
Email: yw2392@columbia.edu

Yijun is a doctorial student in Chinese history. Her interest lies in material culture, gender, economic, and legal history of late Imperial China. Her research concerns the networks, negotiations, and exchanges of power and status that lies behind the making, circulation and consumption of objects. More broadly, she is interested in the discussion of the state-and-society and private-and-public spheres in the late Imperial China through the perspective of material culture. She received her BA in history from Tsinghua University in Beijing (2010) and her MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University (2012).

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Tyler Walker

Tyler Walker

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Paul Anderer
Email: jtw2129@columbia.edu

Tyler received his B.A. in Japanese Studies from Middlebury College in 2008. Before coming to Columbia he worked as a translator in Hiroshima, Japan, before teaching Japanese language in Massachusetts and in his native Mississippi. Alongside his interest in ecocritical theory, the modern novel, and Japanese film, Tyler has focused on the relationship between country and city in twentieth century Japan. His dissertation explores the intersection of cultural production and radical political and social movements in the Japanese countryside during the early twentieth century. An avid cyclist and hiker, he often draws inspiration from long journeys through rural Japan.

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