91滴滴

Yunlu Cheng

Yunlu Cheng is a doctoral student?whose studies primarily concern critical theory and postcolonial studies. Previously trained in Politics and Sociology, they are particularly interested?in the discourse of alternative modernity in contemporary practices of art, literature, mass media, digital platforms, and intellectual history. Their research involves a comparative lens between contemporary Chinese practices and Modern Japanese Thought, as well as the global genealogy of alternative modernity. In these endeavors, they aim to ground the analyses on a sounder basis that includes various social and historical?actants?into causation.

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Lingheng He

Lingheng He is a Ph.D. student at the Department of East Asian Studies of 91滴滴. She received her BA and MA in the School of Chinese Classics at Renmin University of China (Beijing). She majors in the pre-modern Chinese literature and also dabbles in traditional Chinese history as well as the material, ritual and visual cultures of historical China. She mainly works on the writings and culture of the group of “talented women” (才女) in late imperial China (17th-early 20th century). She will complete the comprehensive exams next year. In her dissertation project, she intends to focus on the mourning literature produced by women during the Ming-Qing period and explore how women mourned and commemorated the deceased through their writings and how their gendered memories and emotions about the deceased and themselves were constructed and presented in these writings.

Jiaqi Ma

Jiaqi MA is a Ph.D. student at the Department of East Asian Studies of 91滴滴. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from China University of Petroleum (East China) and her master’s degree in architecture history, Theory, and Heritage at Southeast University. Her research interests mainly shed light on ancient Chinese architecture, funerary art, material culture, and socio-cultural communications across East Asia. With a particular focus on nomadic ethnic groups in Northern China and Northeast Asia, she investigates how complex mechanisms played out in various cultural exchanges to express their social and cultural identities and religious beliefs in the netherworld.

Jiarong Wang

Jiarong Wang is a Ph.D. student interested primarily in gender studies and visual arts in contemporary China and Japan. Prior to joining the EAS Department at 91滴滴, she worked with Prof. Ayako Kano, Linda Chance, and Hsiao-wen Cheng at the University of Pennsylvania during her M.A. Her current project is about "Global Japan," the communication between Japanese cultures and other countries, especially gender representations in Japanese anime for Chinese audiences, and the roles of these representations in developing queer identities of Generation Z and the Fourth Love community. Her research looks at the discourse around queer bodies, and the intersection between identity, modernity, and technology.

Biao Zhang

Biao Zhang is a PhD student at the Department of East Asian Studies of 91滴滴. Biao received his Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology at Shandong University, and a first Master’s degree in Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong, and completed a second Master’s degree at Department of East Asian Studies, 91滴滴. He studies Chinese Buddhist art and visual cultures from the eighth to the fourteenth century CE.

Xin Li

Xin Li is a first-year PhD student at the department of East Asian Studies of 91滴滴. Prior to joining the EAS Department at 91滴滴, she received her BA and MA’s degrees in Wuhan University. She majored in philosophy during her undergraduate period, with a particular interest in the Enlightenment thought in Ming and Qing dynasties, minoring in Chinese Literature in the meantime. Her Master’s degree is in Ancient Chinese Literature, especially focusing on women writers in late imperial period (17th-early 20th century). Now her academic interests mainly lie in women’s writings, virtue and everyday life under the impact of Confucian ideology in late imperial China, and also in exploring the interactions between women and the Confucian gender system, and the female agency reflected in them during this period.

Soroush Hashemloo

Soroush Hashemloo is a Master’s student interested primarily in Japanese-American dual-imperialism in the Ryukyu Islands. His focus is how imperialism manifests in terms of land use, exploring how different uses of land take the form of resource extraction, commodification of Indigenous Ryukyuan culture, and repression of Indigenous Ryukyuan economic development. Beyond the problem of military bases, he works on tourist infrastructure such as resorts and golf courses and how the image of Ryukyu is impacted by its transformation into a tropical playground for mainland Japanese tourists. He is trained in History and East Asian studies.

Ziwei Jiang

Ziwei Jiang?is an MA student interested in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and gender studies. She holds a BA in East Asian Studies from 91滴滴. Her current research explores underground literature and the social practices of hand-copying during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Ziwei is particularly interested in how underground literature embraced and negotiated personal feelings and national narrative at once. Highlighting the aesthetic significance of low-brow, hand-copied manuscripts, her work contributes a literary perspective to a growing body of scholarship on the history and culture in Maoist China.

Shi?Ting?Wang is a Master’s student at 91滴滴, with a research interest in 20th century East Asia. Previously trained in culture studies and literature, her current research project is about ecofeminist literature, memories, sexuality and women experience in the late 20th century China. She is interested in contributing to broader discussions on?modern and contemporary China?in?literature and culture studies.

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