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Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Tomi Suzuki
Email: dp2964@columbia.edu
Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Tomi Suzuki
Email: dp2964@columbia.edu
Field: Early-Modern Vietnamese History
Advisor: John Phan
Email: dtn2123@columbia.edu
Dan Nguyen is an History-East Asia Ph.D. student working on intellectual history of late-dynastic Vietnam, with a focus on literati discourse and culture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Among his research interests are Vietnamese Neo-Confucianism, discourses of loyalism, the post-Ming Chinese diaspora in Vietnam, regional networks of literati clans, and dynastic historiography as it relates to state and identity formation.
Prior to joining the EALAC department, Dan received a B.A. in English literature and a B.A. in Music from the University of Houston.
Field: Chinese Literature and Cultural History
Advisor: Shang Wei
Email: eason.lu@columbia.edu
Eason is a Ph.D. student of premodern Chinese literature and cultural history, with special attention to the performance traditions, drama, and material culture. His doctoral research centers on the burgeoning of theater as a form of entertainment during late imperial to early modern China, examining the accompanied engagement and anxiety among literati of the period. Eason holds an M.A. from EALAC at Columbia University, and his thesis analyzes nüshu, the “women’s script” in China, exploring the academic and artistic reifications and (mis)interpretations. Eason is an award-winning television and animation producer. He also contributes scholarly work on contemporary East Asian media cultures and popular entertainment. His recent work, Remapping spatiality in contemporary East Asian media engagement: reevaluating China’s Got Talent, can be found in Media, Culture & Society.
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