Xinmeng Guo

Field: Premodern Chinese Literature
Advisor: Wei Shang
Email: xg2436@columbia.edu

Xinmeng Guo is a Ph.D. student of late imperial Chinese literature and cultural history. Prior to joining Columbia, she received her B.A. and M.Phil. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her master’s thesis traces how seventeenth-century narratives registered the anxieties accompanying the era’s economic and social changes and envisioned new possibilities of selfhood. Her current research centers on Southeast China and the ocean during the early stages of globalization (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries), where she explores the intersection of literature, historiography, and visual culture during this episode of maritime plurality and interconnectedness.

Xinmeng is also pursuing a certificate in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.