Field: Modern Chinese literature and culture
Advisor: Lydia Liu
Email: yan.l@columbia.edu
Yan Liu (刘衍) is a Ph.D. student in modern Chinese literature and culture. His research probes the entanglements between art, literature, and politics, with a focus on the Chinese Revolution in the twentieth century, the cultural Cold War in the Sinophone world, and the political history of China’s avant-garde movements.
Field: Chinese History
Advisors: Robert Hymes and Zhaohua Yang
Email: xl3020@columbia.edu
Xinzhi is a Ph.D. student in pre-modern Chinese history, he studies the political, intellectual, and religious history of the Song dynasty. His primary research focuses on the development of the Song emperorship system, the evolving roles of emperors and those high officials, the changing nature of the imperial-subjects relationships, also how Song emperors were able to position themselves above religious hierarchies through political maneuvers on the one hand and ideological reframing of religion on the other hand.
Xinzhi was born in the ancient capital city of the Song- Kaifeng, in Henan Province of China, and grew up in Flushing, New York. Xinzhi received his BA in History and International Relations from Syracuse University in 2020 and his MA in EALAC from Columbia in 2022.
Faculty Award
The EALAC department would like to congratulate Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, on receiving the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for her outstanding contributions and dedication to mentoring students within and outside the classroom. In 2019, Madeleine also had the honor of delivering the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture, a series of three lectures on a topic of the faculty member’s choosing that will be published as a book by Columbia University Press. We are delighted to congratulate her for this well-deserved recognition and thank her for her continued service to our academic community.
