Tenggeer Hao

Field: Chinese Literature and Cinema
Advisor: Ying Qian
Email: t.hao@columbia.edu

Tenggeer Hao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees respectively from the School of Chinese Language and Literature of Beijing Normal University and the Critical Asian Humanities Program at Duke University. He focuses on Chinese film studies, film and media theory, and comparative philosophy between the Yijing philosophy, Kantian-Hegelian idealism, and contemporary philosophy of mind. His dissertation, “The Heart-Mind Medium: Towards A Yin-Yang Philosophy of Media,” aims to construct a philosophy of media using concepts of the Yijing philosophy and articulate the philosophical foundation of its methodology.

Palden Gyal

Field: Tibetan Buddhism and Sino-Tibetan History
Advisor: Gray Tuttle
Email: palden.gyal@columbia.edu

Palden Gyal is a doctoral student in Sino-Tibetan history and Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Duke University (NC) and an M.A. in philosophy of religion and Buddhist studies from Harvard Divinity School (MA). Palden’s research interests lie broadly at the intersections of religion, ethics, and political philosophy. His dissertation project focuses on the practices of governance, the political and institutional history of Tibetan communities in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands from the 18th to the 20th century.

Personal website:  https://pal-den-gyal.com/

Guoying Gong

Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Wei Shang
Email: gg2711@columbia.edu

Guoying Gong is a PhD student in pre-modern Chinese literature. She is primarily interested in medieval Chinese poetry, literary thought and criticism, and intellectual history. Before joining Columbia, Guoying received her M.A. in Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Colorado at Boulder, M.A. in Literary Theory and B.A. in Chinese Literature from Peking University.