Faculty

Dongxin Zou

Dongxin Zou

Lecturer in Discipline

Office Hours: M 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Office: 915 IAB
Email: dz2245@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Beijing Foreign Studies University
MA: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PhD: Columbia University

Classes Taught
HSEA GU4222 China’s Global Histories
ASCE UN1359 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China
 
Research Interests

Chinese history, history of medicine, global health, science and technology studies, Sino-Arab relations

Dongxin Zou is a historian of modern China, with special interests in the history of medicine, global production and circulation of knowledge and expertise, and the complex dynamics of China’s relations with the Arabic-speaking world. She is working on a book manuscript on Chinese medical missions to postcolonial Algeria and accompanying processes of technology transfer and knowledge production from the 1960s. It examines China’s health model of socialist medicine, medical humanitarianism, as well as the ongoing ramifications of globalization and world health politics in varied contexts across the global South then and now.

Dongxin received her PhD in History from Columbia University. Prior to coming back here, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Selected Publications

Co-Author. “Heat, Cold, and Climatic Determinism in China’s Urban Epidemics.” Urban Studies (2022, online first). 

“Economizing Socialist Aid: China’s Failed Surgical Plant in Algeria, 1973–80.” Technology and Culture 63, no.3 (July 2022): 718–48.

“Orientalism without Power?: Chinese Female Ob-Gyns in Rural Algeria and Morocco in the Post-Mao Era.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 18:1 (March 2022): 105–133.

 

Yuki Ishida

Yuki Ishida

Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University

Email: yi2182@columbia.edu

Office Hours: W 4-5 PM and by appointment

Educational Background:

BA: University of Tokyo (’06)

MA: Saint Petersburg State University (’15)

PhD: Columbia University (’22)

Classes Taught:

Fall 2022: AHUM UN3830: Colloquium on Modern East Asian Texts

Spring 2023: Disability and Corporeality in Modern Japanese Literature and Media Culture

Research interests:

Modern Japanese literature and criticism; the intellectual and cultural history of modern Japan; translation studies; literary and cultural theory in comparative context; modern Russian literature and Russo-Japanese literary relations.

Yuki Ishida is a scholar of Japanese literature and culture whose research focuses on modern literature, criticism, and translation. She received her PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Envisioning Literary Modernity through Translation: Futabatei Shimei and the Formation of Modern Literary Discourse in 1880s–1910s Japan,” examines how translation helped to forge and in turn problematized the literary-artistic values and evaluative criteria of the Japanese language reforms taking place in the 1880s–1910s. Focusing on the work of the writer and Russian–Japanese translator Futabatei Shimei (c. 1862/1864–1909), her project reveals the complex interrelations between translation practice, the formation of evaluative criteria for modern Japanese literature, and language reform—a process with long-lasting ramifications on the shaping of the discourse surrounding literary modernity. In addition to preparing her dissertation as a book, she is pursuing a second project, which extends her inquiry into the Taishō and early Shōwa periods (1910s–1930s). Its major focuses are the transformative role of translation in the introduction and impact of Russian literary and artistic theories and movements on Japanese aesthetic discourse, covering not only texts but also visual media, such as cinema. This project also explores the increasing significance of the work of Dostoevsky in the period, which was avidly translated, becoming a locus of discussion on what constitutes literary modernity.

Hayeon Lee

Hayeon Lee

Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Vietnamese Studies
 
Office: 909A IAB
Office Hours: W 1-2pm and by appointment
Email: hl3646@columbia.edu
Educational Background
PhD: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MSW: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MA: American University of Beirut
BS: Cornell University
 
Research Interests

Feminist ethnography, gender, intersectionality, transnational migration, mixed marriages, labor, sexuality, selfhood, narratives, life histories.

Hayeon Lee is an anthropologist of Vietnam and Korea, who is also trained as a social worker. She earned her PhD in 2022 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her current research, based on three years of field work in Vietnam, focuses on the migration process and narratives of Vietnamese marriage migrant women to South Korea. She is presently working on an article manuscript on ethnographic research methods and intersectionality.