Lawrence CHANG
Ph.D. Candidate
Freeman Fellow/Senior Visiting Student, Beijing University 2008-2009

Research Interests:
Chinese cultural history of the Ming-Qing period, with a focus on authoritarianism and state-societal relations

Dissertation Title (Proposed):
To Rectify the People's Hearts: Soft Power in the Qianlong Period

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
B.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, New York University

Presentations:
"Soft Power of the Qing State during the Qianlong Period," paper to be presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, January 15-17, 2010.

"Indirect Autocracy: Ruling Strategies of the Qianlong Emperor," paper presented in the panel "Managing the Empire: State and Identity Construction in the Qing Empire," at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007.

I-In Chiang
Ph.D., 1st year

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese Literature, Cinema Studies, Gender Studies, Chinese Diaspora Studies, and Women and Gender Studies

Degrees Held:
M.A., Comparative Literature, UIUC, 2008
B.A., English, National Central University, Taiwan, 2005

Presentation:
"Performing Asian-ness in The World of Suzie Wong," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007.

Jing CHEN
M.A., 2nd Year

Research Interests:
Premodern Chinese Literature, Poetry, Ming-Qing female writing.

Degrees Held:
M.A., Classical Chinese Literature, Nanjing University, China, 2009
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University, China, 2006

Mei- Hsuan CHIANG
Ph.D., 2nd Year

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality
Degrees Held:
M.A., Comparative and World Literature, UIUC 2008
B.A., English, National Central University, Taiwan, 2005

Presentation:
?he Map of Desire: Aphanisis and Lack in Kim Ki- Duk? Samaritan Girl (2004),?paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, February 8-9, 2008

Research Interests:
Chinese Literature, premodern Chinese poetic theories

Dissertation Title (Tentative):
Poetry in Publishing Boom: Gu Tang Shigui and Annotated Poetry Anthology in the Seventeenth Century

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
M.A., Peking University, Beijing
B.A., Peking University, Beijing

Presentations:
"On Wang Fuzhi's Poetics," paper presented at the 54th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, September 23-25, 2005.

"On Li Yu's Lyrics," paper presented at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, February 7-8, 2004.

Research Interests:
Premodern Chinese literature--with a particular focus on the interaction between literary styles and the social, intellectual, and the cultural forces that motivated them

Degrees Held:
M.A., Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005
M.A., Chinese Department, Peking University, 1998
B.A., Chinese Department, Inner Mongolia University, 1995

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese history, Cultural history of Shanghai, Jewish experience in Shanghai, Borderland studies

Degrees Held:
M.A., American Jewish History, Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College, 2006
M.A., English Literature, Nanjing University, 2000

Research Interests:
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature; Chinese Language Cinema; Theories of Trauma and Memory; Psychoanalytical Theory; Film Theory

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures (with Distinction), UIUC, 2006
B.A., English, Shaanxi Normal University, China, 2001

Publications and Presentations:
Publications:

"Weaving a Dark Parody: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower," Film International 6(2) (2008):41-51.

"A Man Awakened from Dreams: Rereading the Modern Girl Image in A Fool's Love by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro," Graduate Journal of Asian Pacific Studies, 5(2) (2007). URL: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/sites/index.cfm?P=11337.

"Architecture in Northeast Asia and Oceania," in Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, Vol. 6: Northeast Asia and Oceania, ed., Gary Gang Xu, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2006.

Presentations:

"The Painted Skin/the Flowing Desire: Fantasy, Horror, and the Enigma of Feminity," paper presented at the 17th Annual Graduate Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, February 8-9, 2008.

"In a Shadow of the Greek Tragedy: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Zhang Yimou's The Curse of the Golden Flower," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007.

"A Man Awakened from Dreams," paper presented at The British Modernities Group 2007 Conference "Competing Modernities," at UIUC, April 26-27, 2007.

"(Re)Creating Modern Chinese Music: Yang Ying, Erhu, and World Music," paper presented at the 55th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, October 20-22, 2006.

Hyungju Hur
Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:
Chinese history (Late Qing), transnational intellectual history

Dissertation Title (Tentative):
Staging Race, Nation, and Gender: World Exhibitions and Transnational Publishing in Late Qing China (1851-1910)

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2003
M.A., Chinese Studies, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, 2000
B.A., English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul

Publications and Presentations:
Translation:
Marius B. Jansen, Hyundae ilbonul chajaso (The Making of Modern Japan), trans. Kim Wuyong, Kang Inhwang, Hur Hyungju, and Lee Jung. Ed. Moon Hyunsook, Seoul: Yeesan Publishing Co., 2006.

Other Publication:
Ethnic Identity of Overseas Chinese in Korea, M.A. dissertation, Yonsei University, 2000.

Presentation:
"Ethnic Identity of Overseas Chinese in Korea," paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Studies of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO), Yonsei University, Seoul, June 13, 2000.

Yunyoung HUR
Ph.D., 2nd year

Research Interests:
Premodern (late Qing) Chinese Cultural and Intellectual History, and Confucianism

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2008
M.A., Philosophy, Sogang University, Seoul, 2004
B.A., Philosophy, Sogang University, Seoul, 2002
B.A., Religious Studies, Sogang University, Seoul, 2002

Publications and Presentations:
Publications:
Nicholas Bunnin, "Pyeonjipja Seomun" (Introduction), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Hyundae Jungguk Cheolhak (Contemporary Chinese Philosophy), eds. Chung-ying Cheng and Nicholas Bunnin, Seoul: Seokwangsa Publishing Co., 2005.

Jiyuan Yu, "Ungsipryeokui Deokui Hyeongisanghak" (Xiong Shili's Metaphysics of Virtue), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Lauren Pfister, "Punguranui Sinrihakgwa Jungguk Cheolhaksa" (Feong Youlan's New Principle Learning and His Histories of Chinese Philosophy), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Chenyang Li, "Bang Dongmi:Saengmyeong, Saengsaeng geurigo Pogwaljeok Johwaui Cheolhak" (Fang Dongmei: Philosophy of Life, Creativity, and Inclusiveness), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Refeng Tang, "Moujjongsanui Jiuijikgak" (Mou Zongsan on Intellectual Intuition), trans. Hur Yunyoung in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Chung-ying Cheng, "20segi Junggukcheolhakui Bonchehaeseokhakjeok ihae: Jeongcheseonggwa Jeonmang" (An Onto-Hermeneutic Interpretation of Twentieth-Century Chinese Philosophy: Identity and Vision), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Yunyoung Hur, Ungsipryeokui maeum: Jeontongyuhakgwa gwahakui mannam (Xiong Shili's "Mind": A Meeting of Traditional Confucianism and Science), M.A. thesis, Sogang University, 2003.

Presentations:

"Discovering New Powers of Fiction in the Late Qing Period: Revisiting Liang Qichao's Views on Fiction," paper to be presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, January 15-17, 2010.

Jeran Kim, Junggi Gang, Gapyeon Hwang (presenters) and Yunyoung Hur (discussant), "Jungguk hyeondae yangmyeonghak" (Contemporary Chinese Yang-Ming Studies), panel at the Spring Symposium of Academics (Korean Society of Yang-Ming Studies), Seoul, May 28, 2005.

Dissertation Title:
Developmental Stages in Reading Chinese as a Second Language

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2003
M.A., Chinese Linguistics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 2000
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 1998

Publications and Presentations:
Publication:
?hungkuko ui oikuk ohui suyong e kwanhan yonku?(A Study on the Adoption of Foreign Words in Standard Chinese). Unpublished Master? Thesis. Ewha Womans University, 2000.

Translation:
Christopher D. Godwin, "Chungkuko ui oirae yongo p'yogi e kwanhayo," (The Ways of Writing Foreign Terms in Chinese) (Orig. "Writing Foreign Terms in Chinese," in Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7[2]: 246-67), Haon hakji 2 (2001): 33-62.

Presentations:
"Mental Representation of Chinese Words in Visual Word Recognition," paper presented at the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 25-27, 2008.

"Mental Representation of Chinese Words in Visual Word Recognition," poster presented at the Fifth International Conference of Mental Lexicon, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, October 11-13, 2006.

"The Unit of the Mental Lexicon in Chinese Visual Lexical Processing," paper presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-13), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, June 9-11, 2005.

Sun-A Kim's CV can be found here.

Liyu LI
Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:
Voiceover narratives in modern Chinese films; monologues in classical Chinese drama

Degrees Held:
M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2004
B.A. in Modern Chinese Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2000

Presentations and Publications:

Presentations:
"Female Body as Image of China: Female Images in Wayne Wang's The Joy Luck Club and Chinese Box," paper presented at Competing Modernities, UIUC, 27-28 April 2007

"'Who am I' in Past and Present: Memory in Peter Chan's Perhaps Love," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007

Translations:

Slavoj Zizek, "911 hou de kuaile" (Pleasure after 9/11), trans. Liyu Li, in Qi zeke duben (Zizek Reader), ed. Yu Haibing, Bejing: Peking University Press, forthcoming.

E. B. White, "Hai shang feng chui" (The Sea and The Wind That Blows), trans. Liyu Li in Lu Tian, 1999.

Selected Publications:

"Jian bu duan de xiang chou" (Nostalgia of Hometown), in Anthology of Tsinghua University (1911-2001), Beijing, 2001.

"Xin nian sui xiang" (On New Year's Eve), in The Carpenter Who Sculptures West Wind, ed. Shi Yan, Beijing, 2001.

"Dong tian" (The Winter), The Carpenter Who Sculptures West Wind ed. Shi Yan, Beijing, 2001

"Let's Go to a Pub," Beijing Youth Daily, April 2000.

"San ge mi mi lou le lia" (Three Secrets), Chinese Television Newspaper, August 1999.

Liyu Li's CV can be found here.

Xuezhen LIN
Ph.D., 1st Year

Research Interests:
Classical Chinese literature, travel writing and borderland studies

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
M.A., Xiamen University, China, 2002
B.A., Xiamen University, China, 1999

Publication:
A Discussion of Liaozhai Dramas in Qing Dynasty, M.A., thesis, Xiamen University, China, 2002.

Zhiying QIAN
Ph.D., 2nd year

Research Interests:
Second Language Acquisition, Chinese Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

Degrees held:
M.A. Asian Studies, Florida International University,2007
M.A. Translation and Applied Linguistics, East China Normal University, 2005
B.A. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, East China Normal University, 2002

Huang-Lan SU
Ph.D., 2nd year

Research Interests:
Chinese intellectual history, Confucianism,

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin?
B.A., Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese Literature and Film, Gender Studies, Critical Theory

Degrees Held:
M.Phil. Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, 2001

Presentations and Publications
Publication:
"Little Red Flowers: A little Rebel's Encounter with the Cannibalistic Symbolic Order," Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, forthcoming, URL: http://www.situations.kr.

Translations:
Slavoj Zizek, "Beiyue, Zuowei Shangdi de Zuoshou" (NATO as the Left Hand of God), trans. Yanjie Wang, in Qi zeke duben (Zizek reader), ed. Gary Gang Xu, Wang Ning, and Yu Haibing, Bejing: Peking University Press, 2007.

Slavoj Zizek, and Christopher Hanlon, "Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek", trans. Yanjie Wang, Cultural Studies (October 2005). URL: http://www.culstudies.com/rendanews/displaynews.asp?id=6858.

Presentations:
?n the Edge of Ideology: Female Subjectivity in Ang Lee? Lust, Caution?paper presented at the 38th Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Austin, Texas, Oct 16-7, 2009.

"Fantasy Thwarted: Martial Arts, Women, and Desire in Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time," paper presented the 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia University, New York, New York, February 8-9, 2008.
"Little Red Flowers: A little Rebel's Encounter with the Cannibalistic Symbolic Order," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007.

"Yi Yi: Anti-melodramatic Representation of Centrifugal Family and Modern Individual," paper presented at the British Modernities Group conference "Competing Modernities," the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, April 27-28, 2007.

"Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Substantiating East Asian Cinema and Reflecting on Contemporary Material Society," paper presented at the 55th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, October 20-22, 2006.

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese literature, cinema studies

Lingling Yao
Ph.D., 1st Year

Research Interests:
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film studies, critical theory

Degrees Held:
M.A., English Language and Literature, Tsinghua University
B.A., English Language, Tsinghua University

Publications and Presentations:
Publications
?merasia,?in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature, ed. Guiyou Huang. Westport, Connecticut: The Greenwood Press, 2008, Vol. 1: 27-29.

?hinese American Anthology,?in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature, ed. Guiyou Huang. Westport, Connecticut: The Greenwood Press, 2008, Vol. 1: 173-76.

?ELUS,?in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature, ed. Guiyou Huang. Westport, Connecticut: The Greenwood Press, 2008, Vol. 2: 690-693.

Translation:
Ming D. Gu, ?hongxin gainianhua yuyan jiexian:Zhongxi shuxie fuhao lilun?(Reconceptualizing the Linguistic Divide: Chinese and Western Theories of the Written Sign), trans. Yao Lingling, in Yuanchang de jiaolu: Yuyan, wenxue, wenhua yanjiu de duoyuan tujing (The Anxiety of Originality: Multiple Approaches to Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies) by Ming D. Gu. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2009: 45-63.

Other Publications:
?u nai renjian jimo hua?(Chrysanthemum Is the World? Lonely Flower), in Xingxing Shikan (Star Poetry) 9 (2009):47.

?inguo Nvzi?(? Woman of the Republic of China?, in Xingxing Shikan (Star Poetry) 9 (2009):48.

?usang?(?hinese Hibiscus?, in Xingxing Shikan (Star Poetry) 9 (2009):49.
?owuguan li de xiasi?(? visit to a Museum?, in Xingxing Shikan (Star Poetry) 9 (2009):50.

?ingzhong?(?n Elegy to Li Yueyuan?, in Xingxing Shikan (Star Poetry) 9 (2009):50.

Presentations:
?dentification of Daughter: The Legitimacy of Dressing as a Symbol,? paper presented at The International Conference on Chinese American Literature, Nanjing University and UCLA, Nanjing, China, July 17-19, 2009.

?iandai Wutuobang Hunyin: yi Hu Yepin he Ding Ling xiaoshuo weili?Modern Utopia Marriage? A Case Study of Hu Yepin and Ding Ling), paper presented at ?hongguo yuyan wenxue yu shehui wenhua?yanjiusheng guoji xueshu yantaohui (International Graduate Academic Forum on ?hinese language, literature, society and culture?, Nanjing University and Hong Kong Baptist University, Nanjing, China, July 5-9, 2009.

?vrenmen de zhongguo: zai muguo/fuguo de eryuanlun zhong xunzhao shenfen rentong?Women? China: For Motherland/Against Fatherland?), paper presented at 2009 yayi meiguo wenxue yantaohui (2009 Asian American Literature Symposium), Beijing Foreign Studies University and Central Universities for Nationalities, Beijing, China, June 18-21, 2009.

Yun YAO
M.A., 1st year

Research Interests:
Chinese linguistics, second language acquisition and pedagogy, East Asian languages and cultures

Degree held:
B.A., Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, China

Hongmei YUAN
Ph.D. 1st year

Research Interests: 
Premodern Chinese literature, Chinese poetry, literary theory and criticism