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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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Yifan Zhang

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Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Shang Wei
Email: yz2681@columbia.edu

 

 

Yifan is a Ph.D. student in premodern Chinese literature, with a focus on the Ming-Qing period (1368-1912). He received his B.A.(2014) from Peking University and M.A.(2016) from Columbia University. He works primarily on Ming-Qing short and long narratives (fiction in particular), departing from which he is also interested in the issues that derive from and respond to literary history, elite culture, local history, intellectual history, and material culture. His M.A. thesis examined how men of letters mobilized the genre of zhiguai (anomaly writing) as cultural imagination of otherness, and thus drew resources from local lure, ruins, gossips, and craze to reconstruct both the physical and figural landscapes in mid-Ming (1450-1550) Suzhou. Currently he is working further to illuminate the casting and recasting of local knowledge put to test the normative in a multifaceted lived space, and ponder how the discourses of norms and anomalies shed new light on the mid-Ming literary and cultural underpinnings that ushered in the late-Ming (1550-1644).

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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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