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Glenda Chao

Glenda Chao

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Li Feng
Email: gec2112@columbia.edu

 

 

 

 

Glenda is a PhD student focusing on the archaeology of the Bronze Age in south China. Her research interests include how archaeological, historical and paleographical sources can be used in conjunction with one another to study the origins of regional bronze culture styles during the late Western Zhou and early Spring and Autumn periods in China, as well as how the archaeological record reflects the political, social, and economic relationships between different regions of China during the Eastern Zhou period. She also has a budding interest in archaeological theory and its relationship to the development of the archaeology of China as a discipline. She received her B.A. in archaeology from Boston University in 2007 and her M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia in 2009.

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Chris JM Chang

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Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: jcc2174@columbia.edu

 

 

 

 

JM Chris Chang is a student in modern Chinese history working on the relationship between petition writing and ideological revisionism in the post-Mao transition. He received his BA from Amherst College and a dual-MA from Columbia and the London School of Economics. Prior to returning to Columbia to begin the PhD track, he was a visiting researcher at Beijing University.

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Kevin Buckelew

Kevin Buckelew

Field: Chinese Religion
Advisor: Bernard Faure & Zhaohua Yang
Email: kdb2121@columbia.edu

 

 

 

 

Kevin is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Buddhism and religion. His dissertation explores the rise of the Chan Buddhist tradition during the Tang-Song period, analyzing how Chan Buddhists reinterpreted the canonical aesthetics of buddhahood and invented a new set of images and norms according to which Chan masters themselves could be recognized as living buddhas. Other research interests include the role of figurative imagery in mediating the reception of Buddhism in medieval China, with particular attention to the ways this imagery provided a space for Buddhists and Daoists to negotiate the boundary between materiality and metaphor. Before coming to Columbia, he received his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.

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