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Peng Liu

liuPeng Liu

Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Shang Wei
Email: pl2411@columbia.edu

Peng is a Ph.D. candidate in late imperial Chinese literature. His dissertation examines the crucial role of Chinese vernacular fiction in popularizing religious symbols that were otherwise marginalized or forgotten. Besides his dissertation project, he has also paid attention to the revival of Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century when Chinese intellectuals traveled to the West and propagated Buddhist ideas on the world stage.

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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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