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Shuichiro Takeda

Adjunct Lecturer in Japanese

Email: st3377@columbia.edu
Office Hours: By appointment

Educational Background

Master of Educational Technology, University of British Columbia
BA, Psychology, Hunter College
BA, English and American Literature, Nanzan University

Research Interests

Japanese Pedagogy

Shuichiro Takeda began his teaching career in Quebec City, where he taught Japanese to adult learners until 2015. Since then, he has taught Japanese language courses at all levels at Hunter College, Japan Society, The New School, New York University, and Columbia University. Beyond language instruction, he has designed and taught cultural courses such as Japanese Pop Culture, History of Manga and Anime, and Society in Japan, as well as workshops on Japanese business etiquette. Outside the classroom, he is the author of The Beginner’s Guide to Manga and Anime (Scholastic Inc., 2024) and has provided Japanese language coaching for the HBO Max series Tokyo Vice and the Searchlight Pictures film Rental Family.

Fran Zhao

Field: Chinese Theater
Advisor: Wei Shang
Email: f.zhao@columbia.edu

Fran Zhao is a PhD candidate in Chinese Theater. Her research focuses on early Ming court theater and its historical context.

She has taught topics in Chinese history, religion, and visual culture, and has contributed illustrations and maps to academic publications.

Education:

BSocSci, Geography – NUS

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Yifan Zhang

Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Shang Wei
Email: yz2681@columbia.edu

Yifan is a Ph.D. student in Chinese literature, with a focus on the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1912). He received his B.A. (2014) from Peking University and M.A. (2016) from Columbia University. He works primarily on Ming-Qing short and long narratives, fiction in particular, and has a keen interest in examining how they speak to the issues that derive from and respond to urban history, local history, elite society, print culture, and material culture. His current dissertation project explores language practice and cultural innovation in the Wu dialect area that centers on Suzhou, the economic and cultural pivot in early modern China.