Chinese Alumni Stories

Yafang BAO (MA CU Boulder, 2014) is currently a PhD student at Stanford University. She specializes in poetry and literati culture in Song China, and also has training in Chinese calligraphy and art history.  

  yafang10@stanford.edu

I earned my bachelor’s degree in Languages, Cultures and Society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa in 2017 and my master’s degree in Language and Civilization of Asia and Mediterranean Africa in 2019, both from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where I specialized in Classical Chinese and Chinese Classics.
In 2022, I came to the University of Colorado Boulder to pursue an M.A. in Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. During my three years at CU, I studied early and medieval Chinese literature, Buddhist texts, manuscript culture, and Chinese intellectual history with Professors Matthias Richter, Antje Richter, Stephanie Su, Katherine Alexander, and Evelyn Shih. My coursework included the narrative traditions of Chinese art, late Qing dynasty baojuan 寶卷, Buddhist scriptures such as the Vimalakīrti and Lotus Sutras, textual structures in the Zhuangzi, early Chinese philosophical classifications, manuscript studies, and contemporary Sinophone literature and affect theory.
My experience at CU Boulder culminated in an M.A. in May 2025 and helped shape my current research interests.
In October 2025, I began a Ph.D. in the International Doctorate Program “Philology: Practices of Pre-Modern Cultures, Global Perspectives and Future Concepts,” under the supervision of Professor Hans van Ess at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich). I do research on the debate over the philosophy of language during the Warring States period (c. 475–221 BCE).

Federico has also continued his work on the Shijing 詩經 (Book of Odes). In 2025, he contributed a translation of the ode Wen Wang 文王 to the first Italian translation of the Shijing.

  federico.beltrame@lmu.de

Baiqian BIAN received her MA in Chinese Literature from CU Boulder in 2018. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her research interests include medieval Chinese literature and intellectual history.

  baiqian.bian@yale.edu

Dr. Daniel Burton-Rose is an Assistant Professor of History at Wenzhou-Kean University. Dr. Burton-Rose obtained his doctorate from the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University in 2016. He is the co-editor, with David A. Bello, of the anthology Insect Histories of East Asia (University of Washington Press 2023) and the author of Conversing with Spirits: Prophecy and Spirit-Writing in Qing Conquest China, which is the first of several planned volumes exploring the role of communication between mortals and spirits in the self-representations of powerful families in the Yangzi Delta region in late imperial China. He serves as the Senior Editor of the journal Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Medicine (Brill), for which he co-edited a special issue with Yi-Li Wu titled “African American Contributions to American Acupuncture,” and has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including Daoism: Religion, History and Society, Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Journal of the History of Biology, Journal on Religion and Violence, Korean Journal for the History of Science, and T’oung Pao. View his work.

  budaniel@kean.edu

Graham CHAMNESS graduated with an MA in Chinese literature from CU Boulder in 2010, after taking his BA in Classics also from CU (2007). He is now a PhD candidate focusing on early medieval Chinese literature and culture at Harvard University. His dissertation examines the literature produced at elite social gatherings and accounts of those gatherings in late third- through early fifth-century southern China. He is broadly interested in the way poetry is used at social gatherings to create cultural communities in an imagined space outside the imperial court at different junctures in pre-modern China.

  gjchamness@gmail.com
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Ruby Wai Yee CHAN is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton, she earned her M.A. degree from University of Colorado Boulder in 2021, and a B.A. degree from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2017. She is primarily interested in medieval Chinese literature and its reception history through the lens of anthologies in late imperial China. Her research interests also include the history and materiality of books as well as the canonization of text in China.

  rubywychan@princeton.edu
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Timothy Wai Keung CHAN received his PhD from The University of Colorado, Boulder in 1999. He has taught at The Ohio State University, The University of Sydney, and Hong Kong Baptist University, and is currently professor and Head of the Department of Chinese Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Chinese literary and religious topics of the early to medieval periods.

  chant@eduhk.hk

Dr. Choy's research interests cover modern and contemporary Chinese culture and literature. Currently editing a handbook of Chinese prison writings, he is the chief editor of the Brill series "Hong Kong Culture and Literature" and "African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities," co-editor of _The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke_ (2022) and _Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays_ (2021), editor of _Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and Body in Modern China_ (2016), author of _Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng’s China, 1979-1997_ (2008), and assistant author of _The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism_ (2005). He has also published many articles and translations in major scholarly journals, including _positions_, _American Journal of Chinese Studies_, and _Asian Theatre Journal_. He has also taught at Stanford University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Wittenberg University, and Hong Kong Baptist University.

  choyyf@gmail.com

Fletcher COLEMAN is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Arlington. He received his MA from CU Boulder in 2013 and a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2020. Coleman is a specialist on the art historiography and religious arts of China, and his research spans the early medieval through modern periods. His current project examines the antiquarian conventions and pedagogical practices utilized by American scholars in the creation of East Asian art history as an academic discipline. Focusing on plaster cast collecting and ink rubbing connoisseurship, he argues that the intersection of these traditions became a foundation for early museum restoration practices and the teaching of East Asian art in America. Taking the Buddhist caves of Longmen as his primary case study, Coleman explores how this synthesis of traditions became physically embedded in objects during the study, removal, and restoration of sculpture from the site.

Prior to arriving at the University of Texas, Arlington, Coleman was a Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University, Bloomington. Coleman has held fellowships at a variety of institutions across the United States and Asia; including, the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Studies, Kyoto, and the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. He has also served in the Asia-Mediterranean division of the Harvard Art Museums, as well as the Houghton Rare Books Library. 

  fletcher.coleman@uta.edu
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Timothy DAVIS received his MA in pre-modern Chinese literature from CU Bolder in 1999 and his PhD from Columbia University in 2008. He is the Asian Studies Librarian at Brigham Young University and a scholar of the social, cultural, and literary history of medieval China. His book Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China (Brill, 2015) is the first monograph in English on the religious and social functions of early muzhiming (“entombed epitaph inscriptions”).

  timothy.davis@byu.edu
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Heng DU received her M.A. in Chinese literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2010 after writing a thesis on the “Chu shuo” chapters of the Hanfeizi under the direction of Professor Matthias Richter. She went on to receive a Ph.D. degree in Chinese History from Harvard University in 2018. After teaching at the University of Arizona, Heng is currently Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Chinese at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on the book history of early China and the comparative study of the ancient world. 

  hd102@wellesley.edu

Kay DUFFY received her MA from CU Boulder in 2012 and PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2019. She is an Assistant Professor of Premodern Sinitic Poetry at the University of British Columbia, and her research interests include the poetics, historiographies, and court cultures of the sinographic sphere.

  kay.duffy@ubc.ca

Jon FELT completed his MA at CU Boulder in 2008, and then his PhD from Stanford University in 2014. After two years as an assistant professor at Virginia Tech, he is now an assistant professor at Brigham Young University. His research is on Six Dynasties history, especially historical geography and the history of geographical thought.

  jon_felt@byu.edu

Chi FENG is a doctoral student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She received her B. Phil. in Philosophy from Tongji University in 2019, MA in Chinese from Boulder in 2022, nad MA in Religious Studies from Boulder in 2022. Her research covers a wide range of early Chinese texts and thought. She is particularly interested in early philosophy on music and ritual, early texts with performative features such as ritual lyrics, and well as inscriptions and usage of excavated musical instruments. She is also pursuing a PhD minor in music theory in Jacobs School of Music.

  fengchi@iu.edu

Scott GALER (MA CU Boulder, 1995; PhD University of Wisconsin, 2003) spent the first ten years of his full-time academic career teaching a broad range of undergraduate courses in Chinese language (beginning to advanced), literature, culture, and an interdisciplinary course on globalization and the developing world. Though his heart is in the classroom, he has spent the better part of his second decade at BYU-Idaho as a department chair, dean, and now as an associate academic vice president. When not on campus, Scott enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.

  GALERS@byui.edu

Guanrui Gong is a PhD student in medieval Chinese literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is interested in reading literature at the margins, both in the sense of reading non-literary sources from literary perspectives and in the sense of reading literary sources that deal with marginal subjects, including humans at the margins and non-human beings. Currently, she is working on the entanglements between the humans and the environment and the contention for permanence as seen through classical poetry on water management infrastructure as well as on the culture of waste and disposability and how literature can transform something to be disposed into something of narrative, poetic, and literary value.

  guanruigong@g.ucla.edu

Guoying GONG received her M.A. in premodern Chinese literature from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2025. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, with a joint teaching appointment in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Her broader research interests include medieval Chinese literature and culture, literary thought and criticism, and intellectual history. She is revising her dissertation into a book manuscript titled Writing Home and Empire from the Margins: Longing and Belonging in Du Fu’s (712–770) Poetry.

  gg2711@columbia.edu

HONG Yue is associate professor of premodern Chinese literature at Renmin University.  After graduating from CU Boulder with a master degree in 2002, she received her PhD from Harvard University in 2010. She taught at Kalamazoo College before joining Renmin University in 2018. Her research area is medieval Chinese literature and culture.

  hongy@ruc.edu.cn

Kangni HUANG is a scholar of premodern Chinese literature specializing in drama and fiction. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Harvard University in 2024 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. Kangni has published on metafiction in premodern China and is working on a related book project about reflexivity in Chinese literature. Her broader research interests include literary theory, theater and performance studies, news and information, and the global early modernity.  

  kangnih@usc.edu

JIA Jinhua received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. She is now Adjunct Professor at University of Macau and Wuhan University. She has taught at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Macau, City University of Hong Kong, and Xiamen University. She has also worked as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty at Harvard Divinity School (2005-06), Fellow at National Humanities Center (2014), and Member at Institute for Advanced Study (2015). Her research interests include early to medieval Chinese literature, religion, thought, and gender studies. She has published about 20 books and many articles in English, Chinese, and Japanese.

  jhjia@um.edu.mo
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Qian JIA (MA CU Boulder, 2016, PhD Stanford 2023) an assistant professor of Chinese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. Her research focuses on medieval Chinese poetry, changes in poetic conventions and aesthetics, and the relationship between individuality and literary tradition.

  qian.jia@dliflc.edu

After graduating from CU with an MA in Chinese in 1998, Stephan N. KORY joined the JET Program, stayed in Japan for almost four years, and spent a semester at Southwest Communications University in Sichuan teaching with his partner. He then joined the PhD Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, graduated in 2012, and has held teaching positions at Reed College, Swarthmore College, and the College of Charleston. He also spent a little over a year as a visiting fellow at the IKGF at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. In 2019, he was hired as an Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Florida, where he teaches courses on Chinese language, literature, and culture.

  skory@ufl.edu
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A.R. LANTRIP (they/them) focused on satire and gender in Ming-Qing science fiction during their graduate studies. After graduate school, A.R. became interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. After completing an online certification with Purdue University Online in AI & ML, they worked as a contractor for Google for over a year. They now work as a contractor for Meta, working to improve Large Language Model performance. In their spare time they write Chinese-inspired fantasy, and they hope one day to be a published author. A.R. is also an activist fighting for better mental health awareness in academia and the tech industry.

  amylantrip93@gmail.com
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Crismon LEWIS (M.A. CU Boulder, 2018) is a doctoral student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is mainly interested in the composition and collation of transmitted and excavated manuscript texts from early China.

  crismon.lewis@columbia.edu

After receiving her M.A. in Premodern Chinese Literature from CU Boulder in 2022, Sijia LI is currently a Ph. D. student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. Her research interests include medieval Chinese literature, manuscript studies, print culture, and premodern Sino-Japanese interactions.

  Sijia.Li@stanford.edu

LIU Jianmei (MA CU Boulder, 1992) obtained her doctorate in East Asian Studies from Columbia University in 1998, and is currently Professor in the Division of the Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of a number of Chinese-language academic and literary publications. Her academic books in English include Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (2016), Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (2003), and The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History (2007, co-edited with Ann Huss). Her areas of interest are modern and contemporary Chinese literature, gender studies, the relationship between philosophy and literature, and film studies.

  hmjmliu@ust.hk
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Michelle LOW (MA 1998; PhD CompLit 2006, both at CU Boulder) is Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at the University of Northern Colorado, where she continues to teach Chinese language and literature from elementary through advanced modern Chinese language courses, classical Chinese courses, and courses in Chinese literature, philosophy, and civilizations in English. She directs the Chinese language, Asian Studies, and Chinese teacher-education programs at UNC, and focuses on undergraduate education. She regularly leads students on short-term study abroad programs to China.

  Michelle.Low@unco.edu

Xiaoyue LUO received her MA degree in premodern Chinese literature from CU Boulder in 2023. Now, she is a PhD student in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. Her research interests include late imperial Chinese literature, print culture, ethnic albums, strange tales, and mainland Southeast Asia’s contact with China.

  xl887@cornell.edu

Yiyi Luo earned degrees from the University of Colorado-Boulder (MA) and Princeton University (PhD). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature at Capital Normal University. She researches medieval Chinese literature, culture, and religion, with a primary focus on early medieval Chinese poetry. She is also interested in the interaction between the literary and religious communities during the medieval period.

Yiyi’s forthcoming book, tentatively titled Contesting Nostalgia: Polyvocality in the Poetry of Yu Xin (513-581 CE), investigates the ways in which Yu Xin’s writings gives rise to a diverse body of poetic voices, yet how one specific authorial image of him was chosen and became dominant in later ages. Her other research projects include studies of the rhetorical tradition of reclusion in medieval poetry and prose, of political messages in Yu Xin’s Daoist poetry, and of the active role played by scholar-officials of the Tang dynasty in preserving and shaping literature of the “Southern Dynasties.”

  luo.allie@gmail.com
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Tom MAZANEC is assistant professor of premodern Chinese literature and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After attaining an MA from CU Boulder in 2011 with an emphasis in Chinese and comparative literature, he went on to earn his PhD from Princeton University in 2017. His main area of expertise is medieval Chinese poetry and religion. Other research interests include translation, poetics, digital humanities, and world literature.

  mazanec@ucsb.edu

Zhujun MA is currently a PhD student in Religious Studies at Brown University. She earned her Dual MA in Religious Studies and Asian Languages & Civilizations from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022. Her research interests mainly focus on religions, gender, pilgrimage, vernacular practices, and print culture in Late Imperial China. 

  zhujun_ma@brown.edu

  xiaojing.miao@hku.hk

Travis MYERS completed his MA in Chinese Literature at CU Boulder in 2021. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Theology at Saint Louis University. His research interests include early Chinese thought, Christian theology, and comparative religions and theology.

  Travis.Myers@colorado.edu

John O’LEARY (MA CU Boulder, 2017) is currently a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His research focuses on canon formation, commentarial traditions, and the development of cultural identity in the early imperial period.

  jo10@princeton.edu

Xiao RAO (MA CU Boulder, 2013) is currently an Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at University of California, Irvine. In 2019, he received his PhD from Stanford University with a specialization in premodern Chinese literature. His research interests include literary history, religion, and literati culture in medieval China, cultural studies of laughter, and premodern Chinese storytelling.

  x.rao@uci.edu 
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Ann RODDY had more than twenty years’ experience studying Chinese and working as cultural consultant and interpreter for international cultural and business ventures throughout China when she graduated from CU Boulder in 2016. She went on to pursue an MLIS degree from Simmons University and became the first Library Director and Asian Collections Curator at the Elling Eide Research Center. Since 2020 she is Head of the China Section in the Asian and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Ann is a prolific writer, painter and poet.

  anroddy@loc.gov

Dominic TOSCANO (M.A. CU Boulder, 2016; Ph.D. Harvard University, 2022) is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Oberlin College. He is currently at work on his first book, an exploration of the crucial few extant contemporary poetry anthologies from the Tang dynasty, which offer us a fascinating window onto the tastes and values of writers living during this oft-mythologized period. His scholarly interests lie mainly in the literary, intellectual, and social history of early and medieval China, though he also maintains an abiding interest in religious studies, the classical traditions of the West, and the literature and history of England during the Middle Ages and Reformation.

  dtoscano@oberlin.edu

Robin VISSER (MA CU Boulder, 1994) obtained her doctorate in Chinese literature from Columbia University in 2000, and is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has translated and published numerous articles on Chinese and Taiwanese literature, urban cultural studies, women’s studies, and cinema. Her first book, Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China (Duke UP, 2010), analyzes Chinese urban planning, architecture, fiction, cinema, art and cultural studies at the turn of the twenty-first century. She is Chief Co-editor of the Chinese-language Journal of East Asian Humanities (Dongya renwen 東亞人文), editorial board member for Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, and recipient of a 2017–18 National Humanities Center fellowship for research on Sinophone eco-literature.

  rvisser@email.unc.edu

WANG Gang (Richard G. Wang) (MA CU Boulder, 1993; PhD University of Chicago, 1999) taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Swarthmore College. Currently, he is associate professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Florida. His areas of interest are Daoism, fiction, and religion and Chinese literature of late imperial China, especially Daoism and local society in the Ming as well as the religious dimensions of Ming novels. He is the author of Maoshan zhi [Maoshan gazetteer] (2016), The Ming Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite (2012), The Ming Erotic Novella: Genre, Consumption, and Religiosity in Cultural Practice (2012), and Religion and State in Local Society in Late Imperial and Modern China (in Chinese, co-edited with Li Tiangang, 2007).

  rwang1@ufl.edu
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Huizhi WANG received her MA degree from CU Boulder in 2022. Now she is a PhD student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her academic interests lie in premodern Chinese literature and culture, especially the interrelations between literature and Buddhism during the medieval period. 

  huizhiw@student.ubc.ca

WANG Ping (PhD, University of Washington, 2006; MA CU Boulder, 2000) specializes in classical Chinese literature and culture. She has published books and articles on early medieval court culture, literary production, and intellectual trends in the large geographical area that we now call China. Before coming to the University of Washington, Seattle, Ping taught at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

  pingw@uw.edu

Wenfei WANG is currently a PhD student of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She studies the literature, and visual culture of early modern (Ming and Qing) China with a special interest in the questions of transmediality, and epistemology in response to the problematics of modernity. Wenfei holds a B. A. in Chinese Literature (2012), and an M. A. in Film Studies from Nanjing University (2015), and a second M. A. in Chinese Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2020). She used to work as a curator, translator, and art critic of contemporary Chinese art in Beijing.

  wenfei_wang@g.harvard.edu

Xiangyu WANG received his MA degree in Chinese from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023. He is now a PhD student of early Chinese literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include early Chinese historiography and political thought, especially how Warring States manuscript texts reframed Spring-and-Autumn period hegemons to promote political ideology. By focusing on how narrative descriptions of rulers intertwine with didactic materials, he is interested in how these representations shaped early Chinese discourse on ideal kingship.

 xiangyuwang24@g.ucla.edu

Xuechun WANG received her MA in Chinese Literature from CU Boulder in 2013 and is currently working as a Tech Auditor at Google in Los Angeles.

  snow.wxc@gmail.com

Dr. Yanning WANG graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2003 with an MA degree in Comparative Literature with a concentration in Chinese literature.  While at CU, she also worked as a teaching assistant for Chinese language courses of various levels. She then completed her PhD degree at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Chinese at Florida State University.

  ywang14@fsu.edu
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Joey WONG received his M.A. in Chinese literature from CU Boulder in 2019. Since graduating, he has worked as a medical assistant at a general surgery office for about two years, getting to learn more about medicine and how clinical treatments work. He also worked as an Assistant Project Manager for an Environment Health and Safety consulting company. In addition to the business and administrative tasks, he had the opportunity to utilize his Chinese expertise and translate EHS rules and guidelines. Having picked up coding as a hobby, he decided to pursue tech as his new career. As of 2025, he is working as a Software Engineer for a Type 1 Diabetes research study on the University of Colorado Anschutz campus. One of the main goals of the study is to help children and adults screen for Type 1 Diabetes. Recently, Joey decided to go back to school, and he is currently a Master’s student at the University of Colorado Denver, studying Computer Science. 

  Joey.Wong@CUanschutz.edu

Huiyao YANG is a PhD student in the Dept. of History at Wuhan University. He received a BA in History from Rutgers University in 2019 and earned an MA in Chinese at CU Boulder in 2022. His research interest lies in early China, primarily in political philosophy, spatial concepts, and textual formation as seen from the unearthed manuscripts. He is currently working on the political implications of the early anecdotes, as well as a study of the Shan Hai Jing.

  2023101120013@whu.edu.cn

YANG Xiaobin (MA CU Boulder, 1991) is a poet, critic and graphic artist. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry in Chinese and a number of critical/scholarly works, including The Chinese Postmodern (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Having earned his PhD at Yale University and taught at the University of Mississippi, Yang Xiaobin is now Research Professor at Academia Sinica (Taiwan).

  yangxb@yahoo.com

Zhuming YAO is currently Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature at Boston University. He received his MA in Chinese Literature from CU Boulder in 2016 and PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2023. Before Joining BU in 2024, Zhuming taught for a year at Swarthmore College. Zhuming’s research interests include poetics, hermeneutics, book history, and comparative antiquity.

  zyao@bu.edu
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Sarah ZANOLINI has been practicing traditional East Asian medicine since 2012. She received her M.A. from the ALC department in 2018, after completing a thesis under the supervision of Professor Terry Kleeman that examined paired medical manuscripts from Dunhuang. She is currently a PhD student in the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on Chinese Medicine, including geographic determinants of health, the relationship between diet and healing, and popular medical remedies in late imperial China.

  sjz@jhu.edu

Leting ZHENG (M.A. CU Boulder, 2020) is currently a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at University of Oregon. Her research interests include Chinese children’s literature and history in the early 20^th century, and Cantonese studies.

  Letingz@uoregon.edu

Yaling ZHOU (M.A. CU Boulder, 2019) is a PhD student in Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In her research she aims to make the methods of New Historicism productive for the study of philosophical texts from the Warring States period. In particular she is asking how historical conditions possibly directed the way intellectual history was developed and reconstructed in early China.

  YALIN001@e.ntu.edu.sg