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Dongxin Zou

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Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: dz2245@columbia.edu

Dongxin Zou is a doctoral student in modern Chinese history, with interests in medicine and science, Cold War politics, and China’s relations with the Middle Eastern and North African countries in the post-colonial world. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Arabic Language & Culture from Beijing Foreign Studies University where upon graduation she worked as a lecturer in Arabic for three years. Prior to entering Columbia, she earned M.A. in History from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Jing Zhang

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Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: jz2384@columbia.edu

 

Zhang Jing joined the department as a Ph.D student in Modern Chinese History in 2010. Before coming here, she studied Chinese Literature in Peking University and Chinese history in National University of Singapore.Her research interest lies in urban society, popular culture, everyday lives of Asian countries, especially those of China. She plans to study public rumors surrounding political celebrities and public affairs in urban Shanghai from late Qing to Republican era.

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Yuan Yi

Yuan Yi

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: yy2510@columbia.edu

Yuan is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese history. Her dissertation examines the industrialization of Chinese textile production in the early twentieth century with emphasis on the textile machinery business between China and the US. By charting the challenging process of mechanization on the shop floor, where US machines often malfunctioned, it attempts to show how various groups of experts engaged in the making of the factory system, with multiple layers of knowledge obtained through hands-on experience of machines, formal engineering education, and the long tradition of handicraft technology in spinning and weaving. Yuan received her BS in Business Administration from Korea University, Seoul; an MA in Clothing & Textiles from Ewha Womans University, Seoul; and an MA in History from the University of Utah. Before coming to the US she worked for Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation and LG Electronics.

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