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Sau-yi Fong

Sau-yi Fong

Field: Chinese History
Email: sf2686@columbia.edu

Sau-yi Fong is a doctoral student in Chinese history. She received her BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2008) and her Mphil from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2013). Her research interests lie in the intersection of military history, intellectual history and the history of science and technology, with a focus on late imperial gunpowder technology, the manufacture of armaments and literati conceptions of war and violence in Qing China. She worked as a translator in Hong Kong for more than 5 years before joining Columbia in 2014.

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Harlan Chambers

Harlan ChambersHarlan Chambers

Field: Chinese Literature and Culture
Advisor: Lydia Liu
Email: hdc2116@columbia.edu

Harlan Chambers is a Ph.D. student affiliated with Columbia’s Institute of Comparative Literature and Society. Before coming to New York, he earned a license in Chinese language and civilization at France’s Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) as well as an MA in Asian Cultures and Languages from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation research interrogates the cultural practices of thinkers committed, both body and pen, to refashioning China’s agrarian world, from the land reforms of the 1940s through the formal establishment of the People’s Communes during the Great Leap Forward.  Formerly an actor in Paris, Harlan also has an avid interest in theatre and other forms of live performance. Additional research areas include Marxist thought, political economy, and histories of revolutionary internationalism.

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Mengheng Lee

Mengheng Lee

Field: Pre-Modern Korean History, Early  Modern Sino-Korean Relation
Advisor: Jungwon Kim & Robert Hymes
Email: ml4052@columbia.edu

Mengheng is a Ph.D. student in pre-modern Korean history. His research interests include social, legal, and political history of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) and contemporary Korean historiography. He also specializes in early modern Sino-Korean relations (Ming-Qing-Chosŏn relations). In his M.A. thesis, Mengheng discussed border-crossing issues between Chosŏn and Manchu in the early 17th century, dealing with the repatriation of ukanju and Manchu-Chosŏn relations. Now he is working on examining the formation of the borderland between Qing and Chosŏn, and the social status system of Chosŏn. Before joining Columbia, he received both his B.A. (2011) and M.A. (2015) in Department of History at National Taiwan University and spent one year at Korea University, Korea (2013-2014) for his personal research.

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