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Lei Lei

Lei Lei

Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Lydia Liu
Email: ll2720@columbia.edu

Lei Lei is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese literature with a concentration in comparative literature. Her research interests include 20th century Chinese literature and American literature, history of biology and psychology, and critical theory. Her dissertation project looks at how 20th century writers and psychologists in China and the US made sense of the psychic life of the working class during the time of political mobilization and mass education movements. Before joining in Columbia, Lei also received a MPP from UMCP with a concentration on China-US relations.

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Maxim Korolkov

Maxim Korolkov

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Feng Li
Email: mk3363@columbia.edu

Maxim received his B.A. in history from Moscow State University (2007) and M.A. in Chinese history from Beijing University (2011). As a doctoral student in Columbia University, he is exploring the administrative organization and economic management in the early Chinese empire of Qin (221-210 B.C.) as reflected in the archive of Qianling County excavated from the remains of the Qin fortified settlement at Liye, Hunan Province. Maxim is particularly interested in the organization of production, accumulation, storage, and distribution of food and other material resources; official communication and transportation; management of labor; operation of monetary economy; and government intervention into local economic activities. He is also interested in possible implications of the existing theories of social power and anthropological research on the construction of value in various societies for the interpretation of the ancient Chinese paleographic documents.

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Noga Ganany

Noga Ganany

Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Shang Wei
Email: ng2413@columbia.edu

 

 

 

Noga is a PhD candidate in Chinese Studies. She is currently writing her dissertation, which examines hagiographic narratives in the context of late-Ming print culture and lay religious practice. Before joining the program, Noga received her BA and MA from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and in between studied at Xiamen University. Her master’s thesis explored the literary tradition and religious worship of judge Bao-gong in late imperial and modern China and Taiwan. She is interested in late-imperial Chinese cultural history, and in particular the dynamics between literature and religion.

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