Nicole Roldan

Ling-Wei Kung

Field: Chinese and Tibetan History
Advisors: Gray Tuttle & Madeleine Zelin
Email: lk2627@columbia.edu

Ling-Wei Kung is a Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asia Studies. His principal research area is the history of early modern/modern China and Inner Asia. He is completing his dissertation entitled “Great Convergence: Intelligence Collection, Trans-Regional Trade, and International Relations Between Modern China, Inner Asia, and the World.” His dissertation investigates modern China’s relationship with Inner Asia by focusing on global economic exchange and knowledge formation from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, supplementing modern and classical Chinese sources with multilingual materials in Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu, Japanese, and a range of European languages. Supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the Japan Foundation, he has conducted on-site research in China, Japan, and Tibet for eighteen months. In recognition of his exceptional intellectual ability and originality, the Tang Prize Foundation awarded him the Yu Ying-Shih Prize for Humanities Research in 2019. He has published widely on the history of China and Inner Asia. His works are available on his Personal Website.

Ling-Wei received a B.A. in History from National Taiwan University (2012), and his M.A. (2015) and M. Phil. (2018) from Columbia University. He has studied abroad at Tibet, Kyoto, Kyushu, Peking, and Renmin Universities.

Filed Under: current-masters-students

Gongqin Zhang

Yanwen Wu

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 615 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 1-2:30 PM
Phone: 212-854-0660
Email: yw4033@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D.: Chinese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin- Madison
M.A.: Chinese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin- Madison
B.A.: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Nanjing University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese I

Research Interests

Chinese Poetic Tonal Prosody
Second Language Acquisition
Phonology

Yanwen Wu joined the Columbia faculty in the Fall of 2022. Her dissertation, entitled “Tonal Prosody in Recent-style Verse of the Early Tang: From a Statistical Perspective”, studies the poetic metric patterns of Middle Chinese and how Chinese poetic prosody was developed throughout history. Her dissertation was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship supported by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and was invited to present at several national and international conferences. She also published and co-authored several articles in the field of second language acquisition and Chinese dialectology. Before joining EALAC, Yanwen taught Chinese language classes at all levels at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to teaching, she also had a lot of experience in coordinating and supervising different Chinese language and culture programs at UW-Madison.