Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies New Affiliates: 2020-2021

2020-2021 NEW AFFILIATES 2020-2021 年 費正清中國研究中心新成員

WELCOME TO THE FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 歡迎您來哈佛大學 費正清中國研究中心

Interim Director Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip Photo: Harvard School of Public Health

Mission 使命: Founded in 1955, the Fairbank Center advances scholarship in all fields of Chinese Studies at Harvard. 費正清中心成立於1955年，旨於在哈佛大學 通過各種渠道，推進各個領域的中國研究。

A WORD FROM THE INTERIM DIRECTOR 臨時主任寄語

FAIRBANK CENTER STAFF 費正清中國研究中心的全體員工

One of the Fairbank Center’s greatest strengths is our intellectual community of scholars from around the globe. In spite of the recent challenges arising from COVID-19, we are proud to welcome a new cohort of scholars and affiliates to the Fairbank Center’s vibrant international community.

Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip 葉志敏, Interim Director Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Director, China Health Partnership wyip@hsph.harvard.edu

As with many of the Center’s activities, this cohort will be different from previous years, with our affiliates participating - at least for the time being - remotely. Despite the challenges that come with being physically distant, we are confident that our efforts will encourage our affiliates to be just as engaged and involved in our academic community as in the past.

Our 2020-21 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows – Peter Braden and Poyao Huang - will develop their research in China’s environmental history and medical anthropology. Together with faculty members Susan Greenhalgh, Arunabh Ghosh, Ya-wen Lei, and Victor Seow they will collaboratively research the impact of science and technology in China.

Thanks to a generous gift from the Hou Family, we are excited to again welcome two Hou Family Fellows for Taiwan Studies: Kevin Luo and Yi-Yang Cheng. Their research builds on the Center’s long-established expertise and scholarship on Taiwan.

The Center prides itself as a nexus of international collaboration and interdisciplinary research on China. To this end, we welcome eighteen new Visiting Scholars and seven Associates in Research, both key components of the Center’s engagement beyond Harvard. Scholars join us from different academic disciplines, and the Center is fortunate to have so many distinguished academics and practitioners from across East Asia and North America to collaborate with our scholars here at Harvard. We hope that our own students, including four new Graduate Student Associates, will take full advantage of connecting with our new visiting affiliates to learn about their differing areas of expertise.

As tensions increase between the U.S. and China, scholarly exchanges such as these highlight the value of collaboration as a way to deepen and enrich our understanding of the broad and interdisciplinary field of China Studies. As a community of scholars, we are committed to continuing exchange between the Center’s scholars, affiliates, faculty, and staff to further greater understanding of our research and of China itself.

Daniel Murphy 慕浩然, Executive Director Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard China Fund daniel_murphy@fas.harvard.edu Julia Cai 蔡珏, Assistant Director, Harvard China Fund and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies juliacai@fas.harvard.edu Karen Christopher 卡倫•克里斯, Manager of Finance and Office Operations christop@fas.harvard.edu Charlotte Cotter 嚴江雯, Library Assistant, Fung Library charlotte_cotter@fas.harvard.edu Nick Drake 卓鴻濤, Office and Program Coordinator ndrake@fas.harvard.edu James Evans 詹艾文, Communications Officer jamesevans@fas.harvard.edu Sarah Gordon 萨拉•戈登, Director of Finance sgordon@fas.harvard.edu Mark Grady 馬瑞迪, Events Coordinator grady@fas.harvard.edu Nancy Hearst 南希, Librarian, Fung Library hearst@fas.harvard.edu

I wish you all success and good health for the academic year.

Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip 葉志敏 Interim Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics

Marian Lee 李博雅, Program Assistant fairbankcenter@fas.harvard.edu Emmeline Liu 劉夢雪, Program Coordinator, Harvard China Fund emmeline_liu@fas.harvard.edu

AN WANG POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS 王安博士後研究員 Historically, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships have supported junior scholars in any discipline.

Postdoctoral fellows are chosen through a competitive selection process. They spend one year at the Fairbank Center working on either a book manuscript or articles. In addition, they deliver research presentations to the Fairbank Center community. 王安博士後獎學金多年來資助從事中國研究的各 學科年輕學者。王安博士後研究員經過嚴格的篩 選，從眾多競爭者中脫穎而出。他們通常在費正 清中心以一年時間寫作書稿或論文。

PETER BRADEN 何樹斌 University of California, San Diego

MODERN HISTORY Peter Braden received his Ph.D. in History (Modern China) from University of California, San Diego. His dissertation “Serve the People: Bovine Experiences in China’s Civil War and Revolution, 1935-1961” examines how cattle, water buffalo, and yaks experienced the profound transformations in Chinese society during mid-20th century.

Research Interests: environmental history; economic development

POYAO HUANG 黃柏堯

University of California, San Diego COMMUNICATION AND SCIENCE STUDIES Poyao Huang received his Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies from University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the contemporary gay man’s sexual health and embodied engagement with medicine in the inter-Asian context.

Research Interests: STS (intersection of science and technology studies); medical anthropology; media studies

AUDRYE WONG 黄韵琪 Princeton University

ECONOMIC STATECRAFT AND FOREIGN POLICY Audrye Wong received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Security Studies. She will be adapting her dissertation, “Crafting Payoffs: Strategies and Effectiveness of Economic Statecraft,” into a book while at the Fairbank Center. Her research focuses on how economic tools can be used to achieve foreign policy outcomes.

Research Interests: China’s Foreign Policy, International Security, Economic Statecraft, Foreign Influence Activities

HOU FAMILY FELLOWS IN TAIWAN STUDIES 侯氏家族獎學金研究員

KEVIN LUO 羅巍 University of Toronto

TAIWAN AND EAST ASIAN HISTORY

The Hou Family Fellowship for Taiwan Studies annually sponsors scholars as visiting fellows at the Fairbank Center to pursue Taiwan-related research. 侯氏家族台灣研究獎學金每年資助兩名學者。他 們在費正清中心以訪問學者的身份進行台灣相關 研究。

Kevin Luo will receive his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on large state-building led by authoritarian regimes and their legacies on authoritarian institutions, with an emphasis on Taiwan, China, and East Asia.

Research Interests: state building, authoritarian regimes & democratization, conflict and security

YI-YANG CHENG 鄭奕揚 University of California, Santa Barbara LINGUISTICS Yi-Yang Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the Austronesian languages of Taiwan (also known as Formosan languages). His current project examines voice constructions in Kanakanavu, a critically endangered indigenous language spoken in the Namasia District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Research Interests: language documentation and description; discoursefunctional linguistics; linguistic typology; Formosan languages; Taiwan Mandarin

NEW FACULTY 新教員

DAVID Y. YANG 杨宇凡

The Fairbank Center invites faculty members at Harvard University who work on China to advise and support the Center’s research and strategic planning.

ECONOMICS

費正清中心邀請在哈佛大學從事中國研究的教員 加入我們，並與現有的50名教員共同對中心的學 術研究與戰略規劃給予支持和建議。

Department of Economics Harvard University

David Yang is an Assistant Professor of Economics. His research focuses on political economy, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, and cultural economics. In particular, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes, drawing lessons from historical and contemporary China.

Research Interests: economics, business administration, political economy

VISITING SCHOLARS 訪問學者

XIAOTONG FENG 冯小桐 Communication University of China Ph.D. Candidate MODERN HISTORY

Visiting scholars hail from across the world with a commitment to furthering research on Chinese Studies. 費正清中心接受來自世界各地的訪問學者。

Xiaotong Feng is a Ph.D. Candidate from the Communication University of China. His research focuses on the rural history of modern China, specifically how the Chinese people acted as agents of their own history. At Fairbank Center, he will be working on a project that asks “how do ordinary people in modern China (after 1949) perceive their society?”

Research Interests: social history; international relations; public opinion; historical anthropology

ZHANJUN GAO 高占军 Department of Economics Harvard University Visiting Scholar ECONOMICS Zhanjun Gao was a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics during 2019-2020 academic year. This year, he will be joining Fairbank Center to further his research in China’s economic policies. Specially, he aims to address China’s financial stability issue.

Research Interests: economic policy; financial crisis; global economy

HENG DU 杜恆 University of Arizona Assistant Professor LITERATURE

NURLAN KENZHEAKHMET 努尔兰.肯加哈买提 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Professor HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Heng Du is a book historian specializing in the study of Early China. At the Fairbank Center, she will be focusing on her current book project entitled In Eternal Lines to Time: The Ontology of Texts in Early China, which reexamines the transformations in textual and literary practices during the formation of early empires.

Nurlan Kenzheakhmet is Professor of History, Archeology and Ethnology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. His research focuses on archaeology and history of Central Asia. At Fairbank Center, he will be working on European-Chinese imperial maps and gazetteers related to the Qazaq Khanate and its adjacent regions in 17th to 19th centuries.

Research Interests: early Chinese literature, book cultures in the ancient world

Research Interests: archaeology; historical maps; sinology; Central Asia

BERNA KIRKULAK ULUDAG Dokuz Eylül University Professor BUSINESS AND TRADE Berna Kirkulak Uludag is Professor of International Business and Trade at Dokuz Eylül University and a Fulbright Fellow. Her research addresses the emerging markets in the Chinese economy, with a focus on the impact of financial development on China’s environmental degradation.

Research Interests: Chinese economy; financial development; U.S.-China trade

LI LI 李莉

China University of Political Science and Law, Associate Professor POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Li Li is Associate Professor at China University of Political Science and Law. Her research addresses the issues of anticorruption and political trust in contemporary China and asks how and why the link between anticorruption and trust happens.

Research Interests: corruption and anticorruption in China; comparative Political Studies

XIAOXUAN LI 李曉軒 Harvard University Ph.D. Graduate LITERATURE Xiaoxuan Li holds a Ph.D. from Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her dissertation is entitled “The Fallible Body in Early Medieval China.” At Fairbank Center, she will investigate the evolving relationship between corporeal distress and textual legitimacy from preHan writings through the Tang.

Research Interests: discourse on body; circulation of texts; individual authorship

YI-FANG LIAO 廖宜方 Academia Sinica Associate Research Fellow HISTORY Yi-fang Liao is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology in Academia Sinica. His latest book examines the formation of emperor worship in imperial China.

Research Interests: intellectual history of East Asia

QINGCHENG LI 李庆成

YI-TANG LIN 林意唐

HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

MODERN HISTORY

Sichuan Normal University Associate Professor

Qingcheng Li is Associate Professor at School of History and Tourism in Sichuan Normal University. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations and U.S.-Taiwan relations during the cold war period, in particular the interaction between Washington., Beijing, and Taipei during 1970s.

Research Interests: U.S.-China relations; U.S.-Taiwan relations; war history; diplomatic policy

Swiss National Science Foundation Post-doctoral fellow University of Geneva

Yi-Tang Lin is a post-doctoral fellow of modern Chinese history. Her research focuses on international organizations’ activities in China during the 20th century. At the Fairbank Center, she will be working on the project “The Rockefeller Foundation’s Chinese Biology Fellows and the Different Roads to Agricultural Modernization in 20th-century China.”

Research Interests: international organizations; public health; agricultural studies

TSUNGJEN SHIH 施琮仁

BINGXUE WANG 王冰雪

COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES

CINEMA AND MEDIA

National Chengchi University Associate Professor

Tsungjen Shih is Associate Professor at National Chengchi University.

Drawing theories from social psychology and political science, his research addresses the public opinion on social issues in Taiwan, such as, climate change and nanotechnology. Specifically, he focuses on how social media, interpersonal discussion, and individual values shape the public perception of these social issues.

Communication University of Zhejiang Associate Professor

Bingxue Wang is Associate Professor at Communication University of Zhejiang. Her research focuses on film history and cultural production in contemporary China. At Fairbank Center, she will be working on the project “The Change of Narrative Space and the Memory of Times about City Films in New China (1949-2020).”

Research Interests: cultural memory; gender studies; cross-media narrative Research Interests: Taiwan studies; public opinion; social media

AUSTIN STRANGE 郝思誠

MAOSONG WU 吴茂松

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

GOVERNMENT

University of Hong Kong Assistant Professor

Keio University Associate Professor

Austin Strange is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong. During 2021 he is also a fellow in the ColumbiaHarvard China and the World Program. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard’s Department of Government. His research examines historical and contemporary Chinese foreign policy.

Maosong Wu is Associate Professor at Keio University. His research examines the development of political modernization in East Asia. At Fairbank Center, he will be working on a project on the Weiquan (protection of rights) movement and its significance in the political modernization of China.

Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy, international relations, international political economy, international development

Research Interests: modernization; democracy; the rights protection movement

DYLAN SUHER 蘇和

Hong Kong University Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities LITERATURE, FILM, AND MEDIA Dylan Suher is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on contemporary Chinese literature, media ecologies, and ideologies of popular culture. He is working on his book project, which examines how postsocialist Chinese writers used media technologies to express their anxieties and aspirations at a time of crisis for the institutions of Chinese literature.

Research Interests: modern literature; cinema and media studies; popular culture

QUN XIE 解群 Shanghai University of Electric Power Professor EDUCATION Qun Xie is Professor at Shanghai University of Electric Power. Her research focuses on education policy and administration in China. Her current research project is a comparative study on the higher education system in China and the United States.

Research Interests: Higher Education; Education Policy and Administration; Institutional Research and University Planning

JIARU ZHAN 詹佳如

East China University of Political Science and Law, Associate Professor COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA Jiaru Zhan is Associate Professor at East China University of Political Science and Law. Her research focuses on the interplay of news and social communication network in modern China. Her current research project examines the newspaper reading practice in Shanghai during 1950s.

Research Interests: media theory; communication; modernity

GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES 學生研究員 Graduate Student Associates are advanced doctoral students at Harvard who research China and are affiliated with the Center during one year of their dissertation research and writing. 費正清中心每年在哈佛全校選拔最多十名高年級 博士生作為中心的學生研究員進行為期一年的博 士論文研究與寫作。

XIONGFEI ZHENG 郑雄飞 Beijing Normal University Professor URBAN STUDIES Xiongfei Zheng is Professor at Beijing Normal University. His research focuses on the urbanization and land rights in contemporary China. At Fairbank Center, he will be working on a project that asks “how to build up cooperative governance between urban residents, rural migrants, and governments during urbanization in China.”

Research Interests: urbanization; social welfare; land system

SARAH BRAMAO-RAMOS 潘心潔 Ph.D. Candidate Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations HISTORY Sarah Bramao-Ramos’s dissertation project, tentatively titled “The Task of the Manchu Translator”, examines the practice and culture of translating from Chinese into Manchu in Qing China (1636-1911). She is also one of the hosts of the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast, where she interviews authors about their new books.

Research Interests: Manchu; translation studies; Sinicization

YUAN-HENG MAO 毛元亨 Ph.D. Candidate Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations HISTORY Yuan-Heng Mao’s dissertation project examines the formation and transformation of Jiangxi literati networks and their ideas of state and local society throughout the Yuan (1271-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties, with a particular interest in central Jiangxi.

Research Interests: late imperial China; literati communities; social transformation

SAUL WILSON 孙睿 Ph.D. Candidate Department of Government GOVERNMENT Saul Wilson’s dissertation is on the politics of urban development in Chinese municipalities. His research seeks to understand how urban development became a question of distributive politics and how different Chinese locales developed different models of distributive politics.

NEW ASSOCIATES IN RESEARCH 新進合作研究員 The Center’s Associates in Research are China Studies scholars who come to Harvard to use Center resources and participate in Center activities. The work of the affiliates covers a wide range of fields, including anthropology, religion, political science, economics, history, and literature. Together with the Center’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellows, the Associates in Research create a lively community for interdisciplinary exchange. 費正清中心合作研究員從事中國研究的學者。除 利用本中心所提供的研究資源外，他們也參與本 中心舉辦的各項活動。合作研究員的研究涉及多 個領域，包括人類學、宗教學、政治學、經濟 學、歷史和文學。他們與本中心的訪問學者和博 士後研究人員一起，形成了生機勃勃的跨學科交 流社群。

Research Interests: Municipal politics in China, urban planning and urban development in China

MENGDIE ZHAO 趙夢蝶

ANU ANWAR 安努

LITERATURE

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Ph.D. Candidate Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Mengdie Zhao’s dissertation “Shades of Justice: Imagining Law and Legal Culture in Late Imperial Chinese Literature” examines the popular critiques of law and justice in literature and drama from the 16th century to the early 20th century. She draws evidence from short stories, performative texts, novels, judicial commentaries, and case records.

Research Interests: late imperial China; judicial system; popular culture; morality

Harvard University Asia Center Fellow

Anu Anwar is a fellow at the Harvard Asia Center. His research focuses on the geopolitical implications of infrastructure financing in Asia and its connection with China. At Fairbank Center, he will be working on the project “bridging the infrastructure deficit in South Asia: the role of BRI and FOIP.”

Research Interests: China, Asian geopolitics; infrastructure investment

KAREN CHRISTENSEN 沈凯伦 Berkshire Publishing Group, CEO BUSINESS

LISONG LIU 刘立松

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Professor HISTORY AND MIGRATION

Karen Christensen is CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group. Her research examines human bonding and conflict resolution in Chinese history, with a focus on contemporary politics/business and female leadership. She is especially interested in “dragon ladies” and in understanding the challenges facing young Chinese professional women.

Lisong Liu is Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His research focuses on the Chinese diaspora, Chinese American history, and U.S.-China relations. At Fairbank Center, he will be working on projects about Chinese migration politics after the first Opium War and Chinese American history in the Greater Boston area.

Research Interests: woman and leadership; politics and business; history of food

Research Interests: Chinese diaspora; Chinese American history; global migrations; nation-building

JIAN HAO 郝建

ZHANGRUN XU 许章润

FILM AND MEDIA

LAW

Beijing Film Academy Professor

Independent Scholar

Jian Hao is Professor at the Beijing Film Academy as well as a film critic and screenwriter. His publications address Chinese independent and genre films in Hong Kong and Hollywood. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Chinese edition and BBC Chinese News, and a participant at New York University’s “Reel China @NYU Film Biennial,” which screens independent films from China that cannot be shown on the Mainland.

Zhangrun Xu was, until recently, a Professor at Tsinghua University School of Law and is the founding director of the Tsinghua Centre for Legal Theory and Political Philosophy as well as the founding editor-in-chief of Tsinghua Law Journal. His teaching and research focus on legal theory and political philosophy, in particular historical jurisprudence and liberal nationalism from the perspective of republicanism.

Research Interests: Chinese Independent and Genre Film/Film Noir

Research Interests: legal theory; political philosophy; historical jurisprudence

LUCY HORNBY 韩碧如

DEWEN ZHANG 张德文

GOVERNMENT AND JOURNALISM

GENDER STUDIES

Independent Scholar

Randolph-Macon College Assistant Professor

Lucy Hornby is an award-winning foreign correspondent, reporting from Asia for many years for the Financial Times, Reuters and Dow Jones. She was a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. At Fairbank Center, she will be writing a book about the rise of Xi Jinping and the revival of the state-led system during China’s reform era.

Dewen Zhang is Assistant Professor at Randolph-Macon College. Her research focuses on womanhood in 20th century China and the intersection of gender, mass mobilization, and World War II. Her current book project investigates rural nursing and socialist state building in China from 1949 to 1989.

Research Interests: political leaders; state economy; international capital

Research Interests: gender studies; mass mobilization; oral history