Graduate students at APSI have a diverse array of disciplinary and regional interests, resulting in a robust and dynamic academic community within and beyond the classroom. Graduates go on to professional careers in such fields as business, education, law, media, and nonprofits or pursue doctoral degrees at a number of renowned universities
Hiba Ahmed
Research Interests: politics and culture, nationalist ideology, modern imperialism, digital (neo)authoritarianism, and environmentalism
Xin Bao
Research Interests: cultural anthropology of China
Kaiyi Bi
Research Interests: Chinese economy, culture, and religion
Xinqian Cai
Research Interests: Post-Mao Chinese society, relationship between mainland China and Hong Kong
Yiming Cai
Research Interests: media ecology in 1960s Japan with a focus on intermediality and Cold War visuality
Mengyu Chen
Research Interests: the negotiation between intellectuals and media in modern China
Yue Gu
Research Interests: sociology, political science; fiction, music and visual art
Yanping Ni
Research Interests: ethnographic research on environmental, medical/health issues in contemporary China
Zhushengyuan Wang
Research Interests: relationship between Chinese high-tech infrastructure and social governance
Hanye Zhang
Research Interests: pre-modern Chinese imperialism and its modern forms
Chuang Zu
Research Interests: geopolitics, international relations in the Asian Pacific region