Yijun Wang

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Dorothy Ko
Email: yw2392@columbia.edu

Yijun is a doctorial student in Chinese history. Her interest lies in material culture, gender, economic, and legal history of late Imperial China. Her research concerns the networks, negotiations, and exchanges of power and status that lies behind the making, circulation and consumption of objects. More broadly, she is interested in the discussion of the state-and-society and private-and-public spheres in the late Imperial China through the perspective of material culture. She received her BA in history from Tsinghua University in Beijing (2010) and her MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University (2012).